A beautiful egyptian faience bead necklace. Almost all the different faience colours are seen in this fine piece. Orange stone in the middle of the necklace. It has been restrung.

Culture & Year: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom.

Provenance: Private Collection, Hellerup, Denmark, Acquired in the 70's.

47 cm in Diameter.

A beautiful byzantine oil lamp with palm leaves around the top part of the lamp. A cross by the round nozzle.

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate, Hellerup.

Culture & Year: Byzantine, 400 - 600 a.d.

Condition: Very good condition.

Height: 3.1 cm
Length: 7.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm

A very fine south-italian kylix with a black glaze, and two horizontal loop handles. The glaze has faded making the brown clay underneath visible. The kylix was used for formal events, such as symposiums in ancient Greece, and was a drinking cup.

Provenance: Ex...

A beautiful mould-made handle, that used to be part of a magnificient volute oil lamp. The motive on the handle represents the roman goddess, Luna. This is seen with the half-moon disc she is wearing.

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate in Copenhagen.

Culture & Year: Roman, 0 - 300 a.d.

Condition: Okay Condition.

Height (Without stand): 10.2 cm
Length (Without stand): 4.9 cm
Width (Without stand): 7.5 cm

A beautiful mould-made mid-imperial oil lamp. The motive on the disc depicts a figure holding a spear.

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate in Copenhagen.

Culture & Year: Roman Mid-Imperial, 100 - 250 a.d.

Condition: Fine condition.

Height: 4.8 cm
Length: 9.6 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

A beautiful black-figure squat-lekythos from the attic. Small details in black paint are visible around the neck and base.

Provenance: Ex. private collection, Alleroed, Denmark.

Culture & Year: Greek, Attic, 500 - 300 b.c.

Condition: Okay, small chips in body.

Height: 8.1 cm
Length: 5.5 cm
Width: 5.5 cm

An astonishing roman glass flask with a round base. It has formed an amazing iridescence. The bottle used to have a small base at the mouth, this has unfortunately broken off.

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate, copenhagen.

Culture & Year: Roman, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

Condition: Very fine, mouth missing.

Height: 11.7 cm
Length: 5 cm
Width: 5 cm

An interesting Coptic pilgrim flask (ampullae) made in Byzantine Egypt. The motive represents Saint-Menas with two camels which are associated with the pilgramage that was created around the egyptian soldier.

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate in Copenhagen.

Culture & Year: Coptic, 400 - 600 a.d.

Reference: See the metmuseum for similar.

Condition: Fine condition.

Height: 8.5 cm
Length: 2.5 cm
Width: 7 cm

A beautiful votive bronze figure depicting the Egyptian god Osiris. You can just skim the details of the figure, details such as the face, utensils etc.
The bronze patina is very pretty and interesting.

Age & Culture: 750 - 332 b.c., Late Period

Litterature Reference: Ede C., Collecting Antiquities

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate, Copenhagen.

Dimensions without platform.
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 2.1 cm
Height of platform: 2 cm

A beautiful votive bronze figure depicting the Egyptian god Osiris. You can just skim the details of the figure, details such as the face, utensils etc. The figure has very beautiful Patina.

Age & Culture: 750 - 332 b.c., Late Period

Litterature Reference: Ede C., Collecting Antiquities

Provenance: Ex. deceased estate, Copenhagen.

Dimensions without platform.
Height: 9.4 cm
Width: 2.8 cm
Height of platform: 2.3 cm

Of a fine early Roman style, c. 1st. century AD and with inspiration from archaic art. Light red clay with a beige overlay. die-formed. Standing Aphrodite with her cloak wrapped around her legs and holding a shell in each hand. Provincial?! Head, one foot and large parts of the shells are missing.

Height: 16 cm.

Ex. Private collection, aquired before 1980.

Large head of Serapis shown with a fulsome beard and fringed hairdo over the forehead. On the crown a closed modius decorated with an olive branch.
The face with a small nose and flat eye cavities with thin eyelids. The mouth enclosed by a stringy moustache.
Modeled in the round. Two-piece mold with cursory back side. Remains of the original gesso layer in the cavities. Nice Hellenistic style.
Large-sized heads of Serapis are relatively rare...

Head of a theatrical actor wearing a slave mask.
The mask shows a funnel-shaped mouth and arched eyebrows over beady eyes. The flattish nose with pierced nostrils, the hair combed back with scattered curls behind the elongated neck.
Superb modeling.
New Comedy mask of the hegemon therapon – the leading slave characterized as loudmouth and intriguer.
Terracotta
Greek, Hellenistic Period, 3rd-2nd Century BC
H. 4.9 cm (1.9 in)
H...

Ovoid vase decorated with two cocks and a schematic tree/palmette between them. The lower frieze with two panthers sharing a common head, behind them a bird. Cock and panther on the left side worn.
The black-figure decoration enlivened with crimson. Neat incision of the details.
The decoration is characteristic for the Confronted Cocks Group, Michigan Sub-group.
For related examples, cf. vases nos. 265 and and 266 in: R. Gabrielli...

Interesting collection of a faience Shu amulet and a book from the property of Lord Grenfell...

Paunchy figure of Silenus shown naked except for an animal skin, the ends of which he holds with his hands.
The slightly bent head shows a shaggy beard, beady eyes, an enormous nose and full lips.
The head shows the caricatural features of a philosopher.
Vivid visual appearance with great modeling...

This is an interesting ancient Egyptian scarab.
The scarab is incised with a horse and a lizard.

For similar scarab see:
The British Museum, Accession number: EA39315

Date: Egypt, Late Period, 25th Dynasty, ca. 664 - 525 B.C.
Material: Steatite
Size: ca. 1,2 cm
Condition: chipped
Provenance: ex collection of Mr. v. B...

An exceptionally large mid-European iron axe, Germany or Austrian, c. 1600 AD.

The axe looks almost like a helbard but with the huge blade ending in a pointed tip at the top. Early type with a long closed socket. The axe is finely decorated and with several nice deep makers stamps.

Very attractive and impressive!

Size: c. 48 cm.

Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997...