This is a lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1250 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 5/8” long (16 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
A beautiful and intact torquise faience ushabti, Late Period, ca. 664 to 500 BC.
A mold-formed faience ushabti standing in mummiform with fused legs, holding implements, and with 8 rows of sharp hieroglyphs wrapping around the legs. The face presents with almond eyes, a prominent nose, and a petite chin, all beneath the lappets of the tripartite wig...
This is a lovely ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1400 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 9/16” long (14 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
This ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1200 BC, is from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 7/16” long (11 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.
Impressive Nordic disc-shaped hardstone Mace head, probably in basalt, 3rd. mill. BC.
Greyish green colour with spotty darker inclusion, highly polished to an almost glossy degree. Disc-shaped with rounded edges, the sides sloping down from the central circular hole with raised sides to form a socket on both the obverse and reverse side of the macehead
Size: 13,3 cm...
A better large/thick Ushabti, Third Intermediate Period, 21/22th dynasty (ca 1085-713BC)
A blue-green faience shabti, wearing the headband and two hoes. Inscribed shabti with clear hieroglyphs at the lower front. Details are added in black.
Size: 10,3 cm.
Condition: Choice with intact painted details and nice patina.
Old Danish Private Collection.
Nice lot of two idol figures of deities incl. Mercury, Roman Imperial period, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
Size: 46 and 43 mm.
Condition: Both w lossses to extremeties, nice patinas.
Ex. German private Collection.
Darkage-Viking silver pendant in a Lunar or crecent shape with a loop, c. 600-900 AD.
Attractive and wearable today with decorations on the surface.
Size: 26 mm. tall.
Condition: Intact.
Ex. German Private Collection.
An attractive glass head of a Lion, in black glass becoming multible colours at the rim, Egyptian, c. Ptolemaic-Roman period, 3rd. cent. BC-1st. century AD.
Size: c. 1,7 x 1,5 cm. and mounted on a much larger black base.
Ex. German collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart,, aquired 1980s-2006 from older collections.
A fine ridged oval close combat mace head, Single Grave period, 3rd. mill. BC.
An oval and yet slightly compressed head with a deep ridged at the middle to attach it to a pole. In an attractive speckled granite stone with tag 187 in white ink from below collection.
Size: c. 95 mm. long.
Condition: Choice Very fine, intact.
Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng...
A very good style terracotta head of a nymph or deity, Hellenistic period of the Greek city states, 3rd.-2nd. century BC.
Large head of a nice Italian / Sicilian style, probably depicting Arethusa.
Size: 8,5 cm. tall.
Ex. Collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, Germany, aquired 1980-2006.
A nice classic terracotta head of a young woman, Egypt during the Roman Imperial period, c. 1st. cent. AD.
The head nicely mounted to a large mable plint.
Size: 12 cm. incl. the plint, the head along 5 cm.
Ex. Old Collection from Berlin, bought from the 1930s and onwards!
A beautiful dagger with a nice dark brown patina, Early Daggertime, c. 2200 BC.
The dagger with several old tags and a finding date given as 'November 1939 - found in Vemmelev!
Size: 16,5 cm.
Condition: Nice VF, basically intact with tiny ancient nicks from use under deep patina.
Provenance: Collection of Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng...
A high quality specimen of broadbladed silex axes, imitating the celts of the early European bronzeage, made in South East Denmark, during Late Neolithic to early bronzeage periods, ca. 1800-1600 BC.
The axe is partly polished and with visible seams,
in a wonderful completely calsified silex stone, so with a fine white patina and iron-oxide markings. Tagged 92 with old collection tags, and with the finding place and date 1885 in pencil - a very early provenance for these...
An attractive dagger of a child, made in the late neolithic period, Daggertime-bronzeage, c. 2000-1600 BC.
Finely knapped in in a silex with a rare dark brown marsh patina. Tag in white ink from a pre-WWII collection.
Size: 12,1 cm. long
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with a few tiny losses.
Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng...
A very beautiful and very large terracotta head of a young girl, Greece, Hellenistic period, c. 3rd.-2nd. century BC.
Exceptional details with the efeu wreath and elaborate headdress.
Size: 10,2 cm. tall and 8,5 cm. wide.
Condition: Very fine, partly corroded, but sound hard, ready to display.
Ex. Collection of P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, Germany, aquired 1980-2006.
A pair of strictly museum quality massive gothic candlesticks, probably Nuremberg / Nürnberg, renaissance, c. 1500-1550 AD.
These very large pricket canbelabras, probably for ecclesiastical use, doesn't come much better than this present pair. Stepped domed feet, baluster-shaped stems with flaring sockets. The prickets in iron.
Size: The candlesticks measure impressive 36 cm. in height and the bases are 14 cm. wide...
This is an ancient Egyptian Scarab, c. 1250 BC, from the famous Mitry collection (see our Homepage). It is 1/2” long (13 mm) and made of steatite, an easy-to-carve stone that hardens when heated. Scarabs empowered life and resurrection and were often placed under mummy wrappings to protect the body and help it resurrect. This Scarab comes in a jewelry display cup.