Daunian thin-walled creamware jug with echinus base, rounded body and slightly flared rim. Single strap handle from belly to rim. Bichrome linear decoration inside and out. Daunian Bichrome, 320-280 BC
H. to rim 9 cm (3.5 in), H. to handle 11.2 cm (4.4 in)
Hard-fired ceramic reconstituted from fragments.
Apulian glazed jug of ovoid body, straight neck and slightly flared neck. Arching strap handle, standing on a flat base...
Squat jug of conical body, cylindrical neck and everted rim. Standing on flat base. Unglazed.
Ceramic
Apulian, 4th-3rd century BC
D. 9.8 cm (3.9 in)
H. 7 cm (2.8 in)
Intact. Slight surface wear. Sinter deposits.
Swiss private collection. Acquired in the German art market, September 2009.
The authenticity of the object is unconditionally guaranteed.
Redware jug of conical shape with narrow neck and small trefoil-lipped mouth. The vertical handle with central groove. Standing on a ring foot.
Ceramic
Apulian, 3rd-2nd Century BC
H. 12 cm (4.7 in)
Hard-fired ceramic reconstituted from fragments. Surface wear, sinter deposits.
Swiss private collection.
The authenticity of the object is unconditionally guaranteed.
Jug of swelling body, short neck, everted rim. Strap handles to the sides. Standing on a flat base. Unglazed. Greek South Italian to Roman, 2nd-1st century BC
H. 9.6 cm (3.8 in)
Apulian squat jug of biconical body, slightly everted rim. Single handle from rim to shoulder. Standing on flat base. Unglazed. Apulian, 4th-3rd century BC
D. 7.5 cm (2.9 in), H...
An Egyptian shabti figurine made in a vibrant turquoise faience. The shabti features a plain lappet wig which connects with the back pillar, and a long beard. The arms are crossed and holding a pick and a hoe. The reverse displays a plain pillar and a basket with cross fibres on the left shoulder. The shabti stands on an integral base. Its facial features have been rendered naturalistically including the eyes, nose, mouth and ears...
A steatite motto scarab with torquise blue slightly glazed and inscription where cobras confronted with scarab beetle.
Origin: Egypt
Material: steatite
Dimension: 1,7 cm.
Ancient egyptian motto scarab with torquise blue glaze 1,3 cm.
Origin: Egypt
Material: faience
Dimension: 1,3 cm.
Henuttawy A – Hnwt-tAwy A Worker 1 (2)
Duat Hathor and Mistress of the Two Lands (Queen)
Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320
Also known as Henouttawy, Honittaoui
It is assumed that Henuttawy is a daughter of Ramses XI, the last king of the 20th dynasty. She becomes Pinedjem I’s first wife, has many titles and plays an important role at court...
A lovely early ceramic Jug, first half of the 14th century, Made in Siegburg, Lower Rhineland, Germany, German, Proto-stoneware, unglazed.
Attractive jug with a small old chip at the rim, othervise extremely fine for the type.
Size: 23,5 cm. tall.
Ex. Private collection of the art dealer and collector, Jens Larsen, with gallery in Møntergade, Copenhagen, 1950s-2012.
A nice 14th.-15th. century Siegburg krug. Medieval glazed pottery jug in a wonderful condition for type, with typical depression from the making, but intact.
Size: 23 cm.
Ex. Private collection of the art dealer and collector, Jens Larsen, with gallery in Møntergade, Copenhagen, 1950s-2012.
A set of very finely carved wooden panels with extremely high relief portraits of a man and woman, Mid-European, probably Flemish / Dutch, dating to the 16th. century AD.
Interesting well-defined portraits of an upperclass couple, perhaps a wealthy trader or banker and his wife, both clad in high fashion of the 16th. century. The panels are carved with beautiful floral decoration.
Size: Both panels are c. 44 cm. tall.
Ex...
A lovely late renaissance monogram of Christian the IV, 1588-1648 AD.
The pewter fitting, once gilded with remnants of gilt in the details. Such a fitting would have been hammered onto wood work in the period, prbably military related, navy or army.
Size: 74 mm. tall.
Old Danish Collection.
Origin: Egypt
Material: faience
Dimension: 0,7 cm.
The underside of this scarab is inscribed with a cartouche holding the name Menkheperre, the prenomen of pharaoh Thutmose III (Dynasty 18, ca. 1479-1425 B.C.) He was venerated after his death and the name of this great ruler continued to appear on stamp seals long after his reign, even into the Late Period (ca. 664-525 B.C.).
Comparison: Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Baseler Sammung...
Henuttawy A – Hnwt-tAwy A Worker 1
Duat Hathor and Mistress of the Two Lands (Queen)
Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320
Also known as Henouttawy, Honittaoui
It is assumed that Henuttawy is a daughter of Ramses XI, the last king of the 20th dynasty. She becomes Pinedjem I’s first wife, has many titles and plays an important role at court...
Interesting early seal of a very rarely encounted shape, worn handle, 5th.-4th. mill. BC.
Size: 26 x 17 mm.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic ...
Interesting carved and finely polished in now glossy green stone, Amüng-Ebene at Antioch, Halaf period, probably 3rd.-2nd. milleium BC, perhaps later!
The base engraved with an animal.
Size: 22 mm. tall and 17 mm. wide.
Condition: Extremely fine, nice patina.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and importan...
Interesting substantial seal in grey stone with a long round bar handle on top of a rectangular base, Amüng-Ebene at Antioch, Halaf period, probably as early as 6th. millenium BC.
The base engraved with a gritt.
Size: 31 mm. long and 17 mm. wide, 14 cm. tall.
Condition: Very fine and basically intact, nice patina.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (...
Interesting spindle whorl, decorated with bulls eye symbols, Mesopotamia, 2nd.-1st. mill. BC.
Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 10 mm. high.
Condition: F-VF, old wear to edges. Patinated.
This item comes with the original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberlände...
A scarcer type of Western Mesopotamian seal with animals of a sort of rounded gable form or a semi-circular form of the seal itself, unlike the Anatolian forms. The seal dates to the Ubaid period of the 4th. millenium BC.
Nice engraving in the base.
Size: 17,5 x 14,5 mm.
Condition: Good very fine, finely preserved with nice patina.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provenance: Gust...
Finely carved stone stamp seal in a dark greenish stone, Western Mesopotamian / Eastern Anatolia border type, Late Ubaid-Uruk period, c. 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.
Typical design of the period wuth a round seal, with the cruciform engraving around a central globe.
Size: 21 mm. x 12 mm.
Condition: Good very fine, finely preserved with nice patina.
This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.
Provena...
A very rare and interesting stamp seal of the 2nd. mill. BC, carved in dark green stone in Anatolia during the Hittite period of dominance.
As typical for the Anatolian culture and glyphtic art, the seal depicting a hunting scene, but in this case a very unusual one. We see a winged Centaur with horse body and the forepart of a human, attacked by numerous spears and arrows, one is burried in his chest. His horned head with human features is turned upwards, while in flight.
Si...
Interesting stone stamp seal of pyramidal shape, Western Mesopotamia, probably Late Halaf or early Ubaid period, c. 6th.- 5th. mill. BC.
The shape of the seal has been recorded many times in buriel finds of the 6th. mill. in Western Mesopotamia and the base is carved with a typical halaf grit-pattern. So we will date it a bit earlier than than the collector, Mr. Oberlánder did. Interesting seal.
Size: 17 mm. x 12 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine and intact with fi...
Origin: Egypt
Material: faience
Dimension: 2,2 cm.
Origin: Egypt
Material: white steatite stone
Dimension: 1,1 cm.
Henuttawy A – Hnwt-tAwy A Overseer 2
Duat Hathor and Mistress of the Two Lands (Queen)
Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320
Also known as Henouttawy, Honittaoui
It is assumed that Henuttawy is a daughter of Ramses XI, the last king of the 20th dynasty. She becomes Pinedjem I’s first wife, has many titles and plays an important role at court. Originally she has her own tomb in an unknown location, and before she is interred in the secret ...
Ancient Egyptian carnelian cartouche for Ramesses II attached to a modern/antique ring.
The cartouche is incised with the king’s nomen, the last name in his titulary, reading
“Ramesses Beloved of Amun.”
It is a white stripe in the carnelian and no crack.
Date: Egypt, New Kingdom,19th Dynasty, Reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279 - 1213 B.C.
Material: carnelian
Size: cartouche: ca. 1,8 cm; ring size 54/55
Condition: intact
Provenance: GB estate...
Origin: Egypt
Material: white stone
Dimension: 1,3 cm.
Origin: Egypt
Material: Faience
Dimension: 1,4 cm.
Djedptahiufankh – Dd-ptH-iwf-anx Worker 2
with inscription (without vertical lines) and prince title
Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320
Also known as Djedptahiwfankh, Djedptahioufankh, Zadptahefonkhou
The name means ‘Ptah has spoken and he lives
Djedptahiufankh is only known from his burial and mummy. He held the title of “Second prophet of Amen”, District Governor as well as “King’s Son of Ramesses” and “King...
Broad redware dish rim fragment depicting a very fine and detailed shrub with berries. The relief decoration was taken from a separate mold and applied to the almost flat rim.
The fragment belongs to the rim of a large dish with a calculated diameter of ca. 39 cm (15.4 in). A groove runs along the outer edge.
Ceramic
Roman, North Africa, 250-300 AD
L. 7.4 cm (2.9 in)
H. 5.1 cm (2 in)
D. (estimated) 39 cm (15.4 in)
Superb modeling. Minor flakes ...
Greek black-glazed juglet of bag-shaped body, splayed rim and strap handle. Ring foot missing. Late 4th century BC
Xenon ware nestoris with conical body, short flaring rim and delicate peaked handles. Shoulder and belly decorated with panels in applied red color. Foot missing. Xenon ware, 400-350 BC
Single-handled Apulian drinking cup, with steep wall, slightly everted rim and restored handle. Standing on a low ring foot. Around 350 BC
Ceramic
Apulian, 4th century BC
...
Two dishes with rounded wall and slightly incurved rim. One with pitted black glaze, standing on a bulged foot. The other unglazed.
Two more unglazed dishes with straight floor and bulged rim.
Ceramic
Campanian, late 4th century BC
D. 7.2 cm (2.8 in) to 12 cm (4.7 in)
Intact. Black glaze with surface wear, all with surface wear.
Swiss private collection. Glazed dish acquired in the German art market, September 2009.
The authenticity of the...
A pair of nicely patinated Thinbladed Danish neolithic axes dating to the 3rd mill BC.
Lot consist two almost completely polished axes. One is nearly perfectly symetrical, the other is an adze with a hollow-shaped edge.
Comes with old collection tag on the hollow-edged axe and finding place 'Køng' on the symetrical.
Sizes: c. 12 - 13 cm in length.
Condition: Nice Very fine, with beautiful grey patinas. Some minor chips as seen on pictures.
...
A nice set of three Danish Neolithic sickles, dating to the 3rd mill BC.
Nicely executed crescent shaped sickles, made with the knapping technique known from the fistail daggers and lancet daggers from the same period.
Comes with collectors tags on all three sickles on the blades!
Sizes: c. 8,5-11 cm
Condition: Fine-Very fine. A nice lot with beautiful patinas and smaller chips.
Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–196...
Djedptahiufankh – Dd-ptH-iwf-anx Worker 2
with inscription (without vertical lines) and prince title
Deir el-Bahri - Cache I - Royal Cache DB320
Also known as Djedptahiwfankh, Djedptahioufankh, Zadptahefonkhou
The name means ‘Ptah has spoken and he lives
Djedptahiufankh is only known from his burial and mummy. He held the title of “Second prophet of Amen”, District Governor as well as “King’s Son of Ramesses” and “King...