Rare Egyptian pottery jar or beaker, NAQADA I - II, c. 4000 - 3200 BC.

Attractive conical jar in fine hardburnt redish and darker pottery.

Height: 9 cm.

Condition: Good Very fine and intact. With tag and number in pencil from older collections.

From French Collection, Ex Bonhams Auktion 23.10.2021, Lot 285. Ex Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941 - 1980.

Mid-19th century wooden netsuke of a rat catcher trying to trap a rat on top of goban (Go board) with a box, but his charge escaping and climbing on the clothes of the man. Superb carving with great face, excellent rendition of his muscles. Beautiful patina, fantastic sheen to the surface, obvious wear. Signed MASAKATA on the bottom - the artist is listed on p. 706 of NETSUKE & INRO ARTISTS AND HOW TO READ THEIR SIGNATURES by George Lazarnick. Strong piece, wonderful feel of age...

Late Meiji - early Taisho (1900-1920) wooden Japanese okimono of an actor wearing a voluminous robe and holding a scroll on one hand. Skillfully carved out of chosen matsu (Korean pine wood) in ittobori (one cut) style characteristic of Hida school of netsuke carvers with clever use of wood grain as element of design - in this case almost forming deliberate patterns on the robe. Wonderfully captured facial expression, very nice patina...

A fine cylinder seal of a very large and thick size for type and carved depiction, Mesopotamia, somewhere around 3000 BC.

Nice symethric style in high relief within concenthric borders. The seal looks to be inspired by the style of the Jemdet Nasr, but to us the carving looks like there's an Archer is shooting a bow against an animal and another animal behind, highly stylized.

SizE: 30 mm. tall and c. 18 mm...

LONG THIN SMOKE PIPE

Refinedly elegant old Korean tobacco pipe that applies such aesthetically natural form of the straightness of long thin bamboo, with the pipe head and suction part inlaid with silver. Early 20th century. Length: approx. 82.5 cm (32.48 in)...

A superb cylinder seal in a rare material of Red Jasper for this period, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, c. 3300-3000 BC.

Sharp impression and attractive with both fishes and the 'eye'-symbol, which is typical of Jemdet Nasr.

The Jemdet Nassr Period in seal manifacturing,3300-2900 BC, were spreading from Southern Mesopotamia, where a great number of administrative cuneiform tablets and seals came from. Such seals was used to impress pictures or descriptions into soft, prepared clay...

Fine early stamp seal, Western Mesopotamia, Halaf to early Ubaid period, c. 6th.-5th. mill. BC.

Carved as a very stylized animal head, where the drilled hole is the 'eye', on the base simple Grit-pattern.

Size: 30 mm. wide and 16 mm...

Interesting intact amulethic seal in a fine semi-translucent green stone, rarely used for seals, Mesopotamia, probably costal region, 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.

A depiction of two mirrored Caprids in the base, drilled for suspension to the cord.

Size: 21 mm. wide and 14 mm...

UNSKILLFUL AND INCOMPLETE LOVELY SECRET SCROLL

Practitioner’s secret manuscript scroll of the various hand-signs called 'Kuji-in' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuji-in) and ‘Tein’ (also ‘Inso’, ‘Ketsuin’) as the Mudra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra) of ‘Mikkyo’ (Japanese Esoteric Buddhism), as the symbolic or ritual gesture or pose performed with the hands and fingers for marking each secret of various buddhas, bodhisattvas, deities, etc...

A choice green stone stamp seal with fine archaic engravings of animals in the base, Late Ubaid-Uruk, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Fine knob handle and a round seal plate. The base engraved with a two animals. Scarce early piece!

Size: 21 mm. in diameter and 17 mm...

An impressive seal with a finely carved base in an attractive white stone, dating to the late 3rd.- early 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal in the slightly oval gable form, looking much like a scaraboid, and engraved with a strong scene of a horned animal and birds flying.

Size: 22 mm. by 20 mm. and 10 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav ...

Interesting finely polished hardstone stamp seal of an early hemispheric form, late 1st. millenium BC.

The seal particularly finely polished and carved in the base with a bird.

Size: 22 mm. wide, 18 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, completely intact with low relief engraving.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberl...

Another interesting larger stamp in fine calchedony, quaranteed ancient.

Size: 22 mm. tall and 18 mm. wide.

Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp and cylinder seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic ...

Circa 1880, Chinese red cinnabar circular box with stand. The box is presented on a carved wood stand having several coats of cinnabar lacquer, giving it the appearance of a solid carved cinnabar stand. Extremely well done and deeply carved, the scene depicts a well known Chinese story about Kuan Ti’s defense of Lin Bang's wife before the advance of Hsian Yu. Please note the beautifully carved horse. In excellent condition, the box including stand measures 5.5" diameter x 5.5" high. The b...

Djedmaatiuesankh – Dd-mAat-iws-anx Worker

Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun.

Also known as Djedmaatiousankh, Djedmaatesankh, Djedmaatiuesach

The name means ‘Maat has said, she will live

Mistress of the house, Chantress of Amen-Re, the king of the gods.

Origin: Deir el-Bahri, Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun

Period: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynastie

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A Chinese, Henan, Cizhou-type black glazed bowl; C13-14th. The deep, rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the interior covered in a black glaze decorated with two rows of closely spaced vertical russet stripes, while the slightly mottled black glaze on the exterior falls in an irregular line above the foot to expose the fine buff ware. Dimensions; approximately 15 cm diameter. Condition; good condition, with some age related wear. There is a short firing defect to the in...

A Chinese, Longquan kiln, celadon jar with incised geometrical decoration; Ming dynasty, C16th. Although rare in this small size, this jar has not been reduced, as there are traces of glaze on the mouth rim. Originally, it would have had a cover. Height; approximately 12 cm Condition; with some age-related wear. There is a discreet old restoration, where a 1.5 cm long chip has been reattached; it can be seen in the photo. To keep our costs to a minimum, and pass the savings to our c...

An finely preserved large triangular stamp seal with knob handle in a jet black stone, Western Mesopotamia, probably c. 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.

Large for type and with a deep relief engraving of animals and with other symbols etc in the fields.

Size: About 29 mm. wide - 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact, some even wear.

Added to the Oberländer collection in 2006. Comes with original ID card from the Oberländer collection and imprint!