Senatus Consulto sells neolithic axe, spear, cylinder seal, scarab, tools, ceramic
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480923
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$185.00
A large round or oval black stone stamp seal of the gable form, popular in Northern Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Ubaid period, 4th. mill. BC.

The seal engraved with a 4-legged animal and with a bird above.

Size: 31 mm. x 29 mm and 8 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480762
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$225.00
A large gable seal carved in black stone with a Geomethric leaf pattern under the base, Western Mesopotamia, 5th. mill. BC. A very early seal of the gable type.

Size: 36 mm long and 23 mm wide, 11 mm thick.

Condition: VF, basically intact with minor wear to the edge.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2002...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480718
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$235.00
Interesting stone seal, shaped as a stylized scarab after Egyptian model, West-Mesopotamian, among the earliest types of scaraboids, 3rd. millenium BC.

A particularly finely carved specimen with a sophisticated Leaf/heering pattern.

Size: 22 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 10 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with much uncleaned deposits, so the imprint will improve much when cleaned.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1994...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1480707
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$275.00
Attractive, intact large spouted jar with broad strap handle, c. 900-1300 AD.

Finely made, very sharply symethric piece with decoration along the upperpart. Very old collection tags still glued to the base.

Size: c. 23 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice.

Provenance: Ex Gorny & Mosch Auction 252, 2017, Lot 780; ex collection W. B., Baden-Württemberg, 1930-1962.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1480419
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A large heavy stone sculpture of Bull Nandi, Indonesia, Early pre-Majapahit style of the 9th.-11th. cent. AD.

Done by a master sculpture in the finest style for the period. A very lifely divine bull in a recumbent pose atop a double square deep base with the right frontleg with the knee bent. The head turned and the tail swept to one side and outlined adornments.

Size: 47 cm. long and 37 cm. tall...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1480407
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$1,150.00
Reduced, was $1250
A huge lead/bronze head of Gorgoneion / Medusa, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.

Interesting oversized item, probably from a piece of furniture or a military cariot. Very high relief and stunning quality portrait, made in lead and bronze.

Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 9,3 cm. wide and weighing 1180 grams - 1,18 kilograms!

Ex. Private Collection in Denmark, formed in the 1980s-1990s, bought from Ancient art dealer Arne Johansen, Pilestrædet Copenhagen c. 1990.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1480389
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An important huge stone sculpture of Durga, Indonesia, East Javanese Hindu art of the 11th. cent. AD.

She is standing bare-breasted on a buffalo, the eight-armed goddess grasps the demon by his hair and holds various attributes such as sword, conch and dharmachkra. Her torso is contoured and adorned with a heavy necklace, the face with a benign expression and crowned by a diadem and elaborate headdress...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480335
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$250.00
A lovely massive seal engraved with an archaic looking animal. Brown-green stone, Eastern-most Anatolia, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Size: 32 mm. wide and 28 mm. broad, 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice VF intact, with finely encrusted and patinated surfaces.



Added to the Oberländer collection in 2001...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480328
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$125.00
A lovely small stamp seal with high loop handle and carved in a black and white stone, Urartu Kingdom, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

The seal base engraved with an animal. A rare stone seal from this culture and period.

Size: 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, choice and intact with uncleaned patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 1992...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480327
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$225.00
A fine very large gable seal carved in white stone with smaller and larger animal, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. mill...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1480326
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$235.00
A fine and impressive large stamp seal with wide loop handle on the back and deeply carved with a cruciform pattern in drill style. Mesopotamia, Uruk period, 3300-2900 BC

Size: 33 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Very fine, sharp seal with minor ancient loss to the rim. With ancient patina and deposits.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and fro...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1480241
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$195.00
A very nice tanged bronze dagger, Ancient Near East, dating to early 2nd mill BC.

The dagger with broad shoulders and a tapering blade with a defined central midrib.

Size: 25,5 cm

Condition: A choice dagger with nice patina. Has been cleaned a bit roughly.

Ex Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1480240
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$225.00
An nice lot of three ancient Bronze daggers from Ancient Near East, early types of the 3rd.-early 2nd. mill. BC.

The lot consist of a larger dagger, 20,8 cm and two smaller ones - 13,6 & 11,3 cm. all different types, incl. a very early type of the 3rd. mill. BC

All three items come with nice patinas and in choice condition.

Ex. Danish Prvate Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Prehistorical item #1480238
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$475.00
A large and well-preserved tanged bronze sword, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

The style with the thick mid-rib and two rivets in the corner of the blade is known from the Assyrian period, and the present specimen provincially made around the lands of the Caspian Sea. On this specimen one rivet is still remaining. Very attractive and impressive!

Size: 45 cm.

Condition: Choice - very fine green patina and good metal quality - very few losses and roghness to the edge.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1480202
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$850.00
A rare and massive octagonal Islamic tile in Blue & White ceramic material, probably stone-past, imitating Ming Dynasty, Near East, c. 15th.cent. AD

A huge tile with fine style floral decoration in blue and white. Unfortunately missing a bit and put together from three large pieces. The tile is measuring 26,5 cm. x 26 cm. so each of the pieces is basically as large as most tiles are!

Size: 26,5 x 26 cm. and 2,5 cm. thick.

Ex. Swedish private Collection, aquired...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1480170
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$325.00
Interesting and very rare Bifacial bronze seal, showing both sides of a Peacock, Bactria / Indian antiquitiy, c. 1st. millenium BC.

Very attractive seal with a deep relief carving on both sides. Round and pierced for the string.

Size: 17-18 mm. in diameter and 10-11 mm. thick.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiques market in the 1990s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1480168
Senatus Consulto
$385.00
A very elaborate and beautiful bronze oil lamp filler, very large for type, Early Islamic period of the ancient Near East, probably Seljuq Empire and c. 10th.-11th. cent. AD.

The bronze vessel shaped as a bird with large tail, beak and broad wings. Engraved on wings and tail with fine low relief carvings.

Size: 13,3 cm. long and 11,6 cm. wide.

Condition: Intact and choice with a dark brown patina and green highlights.

Ex. Danish private Collection, a...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1479992
Senatus Consulto
$225.00
Larger seal carved in black stone, Western Mesopotamia, 2nd. millenium BC.

A very special and rare stamp seal, carved in the shape of a high tower with 4 turrets. The base engraved with a seated humanoid figure beside a tree. Drilled at the top.

Size: 28 mm. tall and 16,5 mm. wide at the max.

Condition: Very fine, loss to one turret but othervise good very fine and with a nice ancient patina.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2004. Comes with ...