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$15,000.00
$15,000.00
Large Roman marble relief depicting two nude erotes, with small pot bellies and exposed genitalia, and wearing long, flowing robes. 2nd/3rd Century A.D. 13.5 inches high X 15.25 inches wide. Mounted. From a French Private Collection, acquired in Paris during 1960s-1970s. Erotes are a group of winged gods in Classical mythology. They are associated with love and sexual desire, and form part of Aphrodite's retinue...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000
item #972859
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$11,500.00
$11,500.00
A large sandstone head of man. With slightly smiling expression, detailed short wavy hair, bulging almond shaped eyes and remains of back pillar. Ptolemaic period, 300-32 B.C. 10 inches high. 16 1/4 inches high with stand. Some losses with minor restoration to left side. Ex. Old NYC collection. Published.
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$8500.00
$8500.00
Depicted with rounded facial details, glass inlaid eyes, painted eyelashes and eyebrows, rose-colored flesh, and with remains of an elaborate, braided wig in relief, with black and traces of yellow and pink pigment. Roman Imperial Period, circa 2nd Century A.D. 6 3/4 inches high. Mounted. Ex. Christies, NY.
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$8500.00
$8500.00
Corinthian column krater depicting a grazing goat with long curved horns and delineated beard, the reverse depicts an owl in the center between two birds with outstretched wings and a tongue decoration above, and a long necked goose or swan depicted underneath each handle. 6th Century B.C. 9 7/8 inches high. Ancient losses as shown. Ex. Gorny and Mosch.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000
item #1170626
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$8500.00
$8500.00
Kneeling statue holding a seated deity figure on its lap (possibly Ptah or Osiris), the back pillar inscribed with three vertical columns of hieroglypic text, listing the various titles of the statue owner, who was associated with Sobek and various other gods. Late Period, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C. 8 5/8 inches long. From the Leighton Wilkie collection, acquired in 1970 in Cairo.
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$7900.00
$7900.00
The god of forests and woodlands, he is shown as a muscular nude figure wearing an animal skin, draped diagonally around his upper body. His left hand cradling a bunch of fruits in the animal skin, his missing right arm probably held his characteristic pruning knife. 1st/2nd Century. 8 inches high. Mounted. Ex. California private collection. Acquired in Rome, 1967.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000
item #1149480
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$7900.00
$7900.00
Offering tables were an important part of every tomb. Intended to receive the offerings brought to the tomb by the relatives of the deceased or in their names by the mortuary priest. Channels were sometimes cut into the stone for oils and other liquid offerings. This rectangular limestone offering table depicts two Hes vases in the center, in raised relief...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000
item #1003014
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$5900.00
$5900.00
Finely carved limestone relief depicting food on an offering table. 9.5 inches long, 5.5 inches high. New Kingdom, 18th/19th Dynasty, 1567-1300 B.C. Mounted. Remains of polychrome. Ex. Michigan collection of Donna Jacobs, late 1970s.
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$4900.00
$4900.00
Depicted mummiform, with vertical column of hieroglyphs down the center of the body. The rectangular cavity possibly contained a scroll along with a wood covering. Ptolemaic Period, 304-30 B.C. 14 1/4 inches high. Base is 8 1/2 inches long. From the NY estate of Stephen Van Cline. Extensive remains of original polychrome with minor touch up. For a similar Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, see Mummies: Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Treasure from the British Museum.
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$3990.00
$3990.00
Depicted as having the body of a woman and the head of a domestic cat, the goddess shown standing on an integral base, she is wearing a long, tightly fitted dress, finely decorated with cross-hatched design on front and back, her left hand holding a lion-headed aegis against her chest and with well-defined right hand and feet. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 4 1/8 inches high. Part of integral base gone alongside her left foot. New York City art market, early 1980's...
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$3990.00
$3990.00
Seated on an elaborate throne on top of an integral base. She is wearing a loose-fitting robe with deep folds and flanked by lions with thick manes. Open work between lion's front legs. 2nd/3rd Century. 7.5 inches high. Defective as shown. Remains of encrustation. Ex. old NYC collection...
Explorer Ancient Art
$3990.00
$3990.00
God of the underworld, depicted mummiform, with smiling facial expression, wearing the incised plumed atef-crown, incised braided breard, incised broad collar and hands grasping the crook and flail. Late Period, 600-300 B.C. 8 1/2 inches high. Tip of one plume gone. From an old Belgian private collection.













