Lovely bronze figure of Hercules in a typical youthful Etruscan style with no beard, Late Etruscan or Gallo-Etruscan, c. 4th.-2nd. century BC.
Herakles, the mythological hero, is depicted standing in contrapposto, his weight resting on his right leg while his left leg is slightly bent...
Attractive black-glazed oinochoe with trefoil spout and arched handle. The neck area decorated with grape bunches alternating with tendrils. Black glaze turned red-brown in places. Standing on a small ring foot.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1001099.
Ceramic
Apulian, Knudsen Group, 320-300 BC
H. 10.8 cm (4.3 in)
Traces of fingertips around the ring foot. Intact and fine. Black glaze turned red-brown in places...
A wonderful large round stone seal with loop at the back and a fine square cross-line design on the seal, Mesopotamia, 6th.-5th. millenium BC.
Size: 33 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Nice VF, some wear, especially to the loop from ancient use.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Atttractive larger hand axe from Northern Africa, Sahara Desert, Neolithic period, ca. 10,000 to 6000 BC.
A finely knapped bifacial axe with finely curving shape to a thick center and done in a fine pinky-brown and grey silex or chert. Partly polished glossy, especially on the sharp bit...
An Amlash bronze humped bull pendant, circa 1000-800 B.C.
A very attractive bronze bull, standing on it's stout legs and with a oversize hump and pieced through the body.
Size: 64 mm. long and 48 mm. tall.
Condition: Superb for type, with very nice metal and great patina.
Ex Bavarian private collection, Germany between 1974-2015.
Faience shabti inscribed with six lines of horizontal text starting just below the crossed arms.
The spell reads: ‘The Governor of Upper Egypt, Anhh-Hor, he speaks, oh, this shabti’ and is followed by version VII-A of the shabti spell.
The inscription shows an exceptional orthography and archaic vocabulary reminiscent of the renaissance of ancient Egyptian culture at the beginning of the 26th Dynasty.
Ankh-Hor was a high rank official under Psammetichus II and Apries and...
POTTERY WINE STORAGE AMPHORA
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 2nd - 1st B.C.
Measurements:
Height: 58 cm
Diameter: 30 cm
Height on stand: 80 cm
Condition: Handle re-attached/ neck repaired as shown otherwise intact
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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Beautiful pottery dish with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern, Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.
The Dish in an almost untouched state with surface and beautiful colours.
Size: 17,4 x 4 cm. - c. 7 inches.
Condition: Choice and intact, a few places of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice dish.
Ex. Important Danish Private Collection
TERRACOTTA PERFUME JAR
GREEK - HELLENISTIC PERIOD 330 - 50 BC
"Time of Alexander the Great"
Globular body with a ring base and a shaped neck folded outwards
Measurements:
Height: 13 cm
Diameter: 12 cm
Height on stand: 17.5 cm
Condition: Minor repair hard to see otherwise intact
Found in Hebron south “City of Abraham” south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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Ancient egyptian faience Shabti 6,8cm.
Third Intermediate Period, 21th/22th Dynasty.
Material faience.
inscription: "Osiris; The singer of Amun, justified."
Condition look at pictures pleas.
This ushabti figurine is depicted as a worker holding two hoes for work in the fields of Osiris in the afterlife.
He is wearing a tripartite wig which falls down between the shoulders...
A large two-colored Egyptian eye of Horus amulet. Made of turquoise glazed composite, the pupil and eyebrows accentuated in dark brown. Dating c. to the 22nd to 25th Dynasties, 946 - 657 B.C. Condition: traces of age. Dimension: c. 3.3 cm long, 2 cm high, 0.5 cm thick.
A beautiful and scarce stone stamp seal, carved in black serpentine with a high handle, Western Asia, Hittite period, 2nd. millenium BC.
Triangular seal plate, engraved with what looks to be a sort of script or symbols, looks almost Egyptian in the style, but we're not certain and it should be researched some more. Finely made knob handle with piercing
Length: 27 mm. height c. 12 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine...
Early Etruscan kyathos decorated with vertical lines and dots on the bulged shoulder.
The shallow bowl tapers to a flat base, the vertical neck with a ring handle connecting rim and shoulder.
Hand-built. Finely polished black ware turning to brown below the handle.
Ceramic, Impasto ware
Etruscan/Villanovan, 7th century BC
H. to handle 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
H. to rim 4.8 cm (1.9 in)
D...
A fine bronzeage weapon celt, North European bronzeage, later 2nd. mill. BC. Specimen probably from Northern Germany.
The celt with a loop in the side, fine sturdy design and probably made for warfare and not wood-carving.
Size: 83 mm. tall.
Ex. Jens Knudsen, Hamburg, 1970-1999.
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...
Tahenetnebkhemenu – tA-Hnt-nb-xmnw Type 1
Bab el-Gasus Shabtis - Cache II - Tomb of the Priests of Amun...
Extremely rare cloak pin cast in silver, Ancient Near East, 'Luristani', ca. 1200 to 800 BC.
While examining this massive cloak pin, we discovered that it is not made in the usual cuprite-red bronze alloy, but in silver! A elaborate and heavy cloak pin, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process with poppy flower shaped terminal.
Used to fasten clothes, in this case due to the unusually heavy fabric and decoration, likely leather for presentation use - perhaps for a very ...
An very nice earthenware bowl with incised decorations withfloral petals in the center. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors in splash design. Bamiyan, c. 12th. century.
High, wide walls on narrow base. Remnants of rim from another bowl in the kiln on the side.
Size: 13,7 x 6,4 cm.
Condition: Choice with fine glaze, hairline crack on the side and a chip to the rim. Smaller losses of glaze.
Provenance: Prominent Danish-French ...