Ancient Egyptian or Canaanite bronze 'Duckbill' axe-head, Middle Kingdom–Early New Kingdom 2100– 1500 B.C...
This beautiful green jasper Heart Scarab is 1/2" (13 mm) long and dates to ~900 BC. Inscribed Heart Scarabs were placed over a mummy’s heart to keep it from revealing any sin during its ‘Weighing of the Heart.’ Smaller, uninscribed Heart Scarabs, like this one, were introduced ~1000 BC. (K. Liszka).
Miniature perfume vessel decorated with three running dogs between narrow encircling lines. Dot-rosettes in the field and on the shoulder. Solid rays on the rim and around the foot.
Conical shape pointed towards the hollowed foot. A strap handle joins the disk rim with the shoulder.
Ceramic
Proto-Corinthian, around 650 BC
H. 6.1 cm (2.4 in)
Neck and one fragment at the rim reattached. Creamy white slip with root marks...
A lot of 3 knapped silex points from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!
Lovely lot with some very elaborately knapped types in different kinds of fine stones. The lot includes early types from c. 4.000 BC or earlier to perhaps as late as 2000 BC, more research is needed to accurately date each point...
A wonderfully condition chisel / axe, Danish Neolithic period 3rd. millenium BC.
Though some chisels are made as late as Daggertime just before the bronzeage, this unpolished attractive chisel was likely made during the Singlegrave period, 2800-2400 BC.
Size: 165 mm. (16,8 cm.)
Condition: Near Mint condition with a razor sharp bit / edge. Fine glossy light greyish patina.
Ex...
Undecorated Roman lamp inscribed CCLO.SVC on the base.
The impressed mark refers to C(aius) Clo(dius) Suc(cessus) whose Italic workshop had branches in Africa Proconsularis.
Loeschke type VIII lamp with plain discus set off by grooves. Small filling hole at center, tiny air hole pierced below...
A stunning terracotta figure of Horse and Rider, Parthian Empire, 1st-3rd. cent. AD.
The tall bearded figure emerging from the body of the horse, wearing folded cap, the horse with applied disc eyes, traces of decoration. Their bodies is blending into a single, triangular form, with the head and upper body of the man directly behind the horse’s head. Finely detailed features of a mature Parthian horseman, probably nobility.
Size: 111 mm...
Painting on Egyptian pottery is not very common before the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC), but appears often in the late 18th Dynasty. This blue-decorated pottery was first recognised on a bigger scale at the palace of king Amenhotep III (1388-1351/50 BC)...
A choice smaller iron lock with a nice large iron key, perhaps from a door, South-German, early 17th. century.
A lock with flattened iron carved as stylized animals! Wonderful antique in a nice uncorroded condition with a fine collection patina. Nice tight locking mecanism! Still Useable for a door today.
Size: 16 cm. long. The key measure 10 cm. in length.
Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997...
Gandhara stone panel with the Buddha and an attendant in the lower frame. The partially preserved Buddha is seated on a pedestal in the dhyana mudhra gesture. He is dressed in Gandharan style and showing a wavy hairstyle topped with the raised ushnisha.
On the left a man in daring contrapposto and exaggeratedly turned upper body...
An ancient Egyptian steatite scarab with the royal prenomen name Men-kheper-Re (Thutmosis III); including an adjective or descriptive phrase stating the good god + Amun (very schematic). 3/4 inch. 18th dynasty, 1479 BC to 1425 BC. From a Florida estate. Said to be purchased in the early 1980s.
A wonderful large stamp seal with stag and perhaps a young stag below, Anatolia, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
A thick seal deeply engraved with a vivid motif in a serpentine stone.
Size: c. 34-35 mm. long.
Condition: Choice VF, some overall wear but completely intact.
Comes with the original ID card!
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dea...
An Egyptian Gesso and wood Painted Horse Head possibly from an equestrian figure with a beautiful crackle patina and mineralised wood in areas. probably ancient. Collected in the late 19thc.
Untested for age priced accordingly. Size H 8" D 5.5" W 2"
Carefully polished impasto ware amphora of biconical shape. The handles span from the slightly flared mouth to the shoulder.
The shoulder area enhanced with molded ridges.
Hand-built dark brown impasto with carefully smoothed surface. Dendrite-like deposits.
For related examples, cf. CVA Warsaw, Musée National 6, 4345, pl. 38.5 (inv. 147348) and pl. 38.13 (inv. 147340). Beazley archive no. 1012354.
Ceramic, impasto ware
Etruscan, Villanovan Period, late 8 cent...
An attractive large stamp seal of the stylized scaraboid form, oval with a round back and carved in the base in deep relief with a standing lion, tail lifted and a bird with spread wings above it's back, Mesopotamia, Middle-Assyrian period, later 2nd. millenium BC.
Size: 26 x 22 mm.
Condition: VF, intact with some wear and patina.
This seal comes with hard impression and COA to the below collection.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlä...
A Necklace, bracelet and earrings. The beads have been carefully restrung from ancient faience mummy multi-colored beads. Wearable and in very good condition
Egypt; Hyksos Period; 1550 BC
Dimensions:
Necklace length: 42 cm
Bracelet: 20 cm
EGYPTIAN MUMMY BEADS
Egyptian burial sites have yielded enormous quantities of beads in many varieties. Since beads were such an integral part of the culture, they paint a poignant picture of an idealistic peop...
A very attractive unpolished Danish neolithic axe of the Single Grave slender type, dating c. 2800-2400 BC.
Very nicely knapping details on the sides and several old collection tags! The axe has finding date in black ink given as 4. september 1924, found in 'Hestehave'.
Size: c. 17,7 cm. in length.
Condition: Near EF. Choice axe with near perfect edges and a nice frosty bluish-grey patina.
Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–19...
Interesting huge seal from the Oberländer collection. It was described as unidentified and probably ceramic, but to us it looks like Limestone, but we're not certain. At first glance it looks like a Pre-Columbian seal, but details doesn't compute and there were no Pre-Columbian seals in the collection, so it could be from Mesopotamia / Western Asia, we're not certain.
It's sold as guaranteed ancient and 800+ years old.
Size: 35 mm tall and 36 mm. thick!
Conditi...