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 | Antique Tibetan painted wood image of Green Tara Bodhisattva |
 | Fine quality Ohi Ware Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura |
 | AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ALABASTER FIGURE OF A MAN |
 | Incredible Bronze Ge Axe, Buckle and Finial Set |
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 | A Late Edo Collaboration Scroll by Reizei Tamenori and Hara Zaichū |
 | Antique Sanjabi Kurdish Chanteh Bag (Camel Bag) |
$575.00
A larger rounded bowl, decorated with wonderful caligraphy in black on cream glaze.
Size: 23 cm. wide and 8 cm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine for type. Original crackled glaze with much patina...
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Holy Land – Late Bronze Age;
Canaanite; 1550 – 1200 BC
“Time of Moses”
Biblical pottery saucer type oil lamp with "Soot" burning marks at the nozzle
Measurements:
Length: 14.5 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Condition: Good condition with minor chip on the rim as shown
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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CYRPO-PHOENICIAN, IRON AGE 800 – 600 B.C
Globular body, two handles with a shaped neck.
Remains of ancient black painted lines around the body .
Dimensions:
Height: 11 cm
Diameter: 7 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm
Condition: Rim chipped as shown otherwise intact
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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# 84129
$575.00
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: 168 mm. (16,8 cm.)
Condition: Vertially mint with a sharp bit / edge. Very nice brown-orange patina.
Ex...
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CANAANITE, Late Bronze Age: 1550 - 1200 BC
Time of Moses
Measurements:
Height: 16 cm
Width: 8 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm
Condition: Good condition as shown
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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HOLY LAND, IRON AGE I, 1200 - 980 BC
First temple period
"Time of King David"
Dimensions:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 8 cm
Height on stand: 16 cm
Condition: Very good condition untouched as found
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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$575.00
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CANAANITE, MIDDLE BRONZE AGE, 1850 - 1550 BC
Time of Abraham
This type known by the chocolate on white ware with remains of brown paint pigments...
$575.00
A finely made bronzeage axe that combines Indo-European nomadic style with a Caspian Sea area touch.
A heavy axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and a broadening blade. Peculiar for this culture is the large pronounced ridge on top on the blade near the socket
Size: 13 cm. long.
Condition: Superb. Fine green-red patina with uncleaned sandy pockets.
Ex...
$575.00
High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.
Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.
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HOLY LAND, Iron Age, Israelite, 1200 - 900 BC
First temple period - Time of King David
Dimensions:
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 9 cm
Height on stand: 16 cm
Condition: Minor chip at the rim as shown otherwise intact, not repaired and not restored
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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#05908
$575.00
The ring is moulded with a large female bust on the top. She is either a deity or a high-born lady, with a tall draped hairdress and diadem.
Size: about 25 mm. wide. 9.60 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm.
Condition: Nice Very fine and intact. stable and Wearable. The surface with corrosion and brown deposits.
Ex. German private collection since 1990s, aquired at Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse...
$565.00
€560.00
Rare ancient Egyptian opaque blue glass pendant in the shape of a pomegranate with yellow and white details.
For comparable amulets see:
Louvre Museum, Paris, E 2284 ; AF 2600 and N 1850 ; AF 2312
British Museum, London, EA48064 and EA68538
Petrie Museum UC22890
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 11.215.446
Date: Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th - 20th Dynasty, ca. 1570 - 1070 B.C.
Material: Glass
Size: ca. 2,3 cm
Condition: intact
P...
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"Canaanite" Early Bronze Age, 3100 - 2000 BC
Dimensions:
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Condition: Good condition, not repaired and not restored
Found in Jericho "Jordan valley", Holy Land
Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the biblical lands during the biblical period. To own a "biblical" artifact is to possess a genuine, one-of-a...
$550.00
A finely made late bronzeage axe that combines stylistical elements of the Indo-European nomadic style with the Indo-Iranian style.
A heavy axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and a broadening downward curving blade. Peculiar for this culture is the large pronounced ridge on top on the blade near the socket
Size: 12 cm. long, 8 cm. high and weighing c...
$550.00
A beautiful axe, long slender type with mounting hole to the back and a slightly curving blade.
Size: 13,5 cm. long
Condition: Superb, fine green patina with a dusting of earthern encrustations.
This axe comes from a find in Germany and was offcially exported with a license.
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Biblical, Iron Age, 1200 – 1000 BC
First temple period
“Time of King David”
A charming wheel-made pottery saucer oil lamp with a pinched spout.
Measurements:
Length: 12 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Condition: Good condition, not repaired and not restored.
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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$550.00
A very attractive cylinder carved with animals walking on a decorated border below.
Size: 35-36 mm. tall and c. 8 mm. thick.
Condition: Good Very fine, nice light green patina.
Comes with hard impression and COA.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, boug...
$550.00
An impressive piece of bronzeage jevellery, a warriors neck-ring, likely from Austria or Hungary. Desined with hook and eye and spiral decoration.
Size: 21,7 cm. in diameter and nearly round.
Condition: Choice and intact with wonderful vivid green and blue patina with a few lighter rough spots.
Ex South-German collection, formerly in an Austrian private collection, 1980s and ex. German Auc...
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Byzantine empire, 5th Cent. AD
Typical type, nicely made and decorated
Measurements: Length: 9.5 cm - Width: 6.5 cm
Condition: Good condition with age weathering as shown
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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$550.00
CONDITION: In its original condition showing the age and usage with a nice dark green-brown patina
DIMENSIONS: Height: 7.1 cm (2.8 inches). Width: 5.1 cm (2 inches)
$550.00
Turquoise glazed, pottery bowl with flaring body rising from a short foot. The sides and center carved with a Lotus pattern black markings, all in high relief in the manor of the Seljuqs.
Condition: Superb. Fully iridescent patina in silver and rainbow. Completely intact and uncleaned. Exceptional in hand
Size: 16 cm. wide and approx 9 cm. high.
Proven...
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PHILISTINE, IRON AGE, 1200 BC
Probably a part of a Kernos!
Measurements:
Length: 8 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 11.5 cm
Condition: Horns missing in antiquity, untouched as found
Found near Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
Beautifully mounted on a plexi-glass display stand of high quality
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PHILISTINES:
THEY ARE AL...
$550.00
DIMENSIONS: Height: 4.3 cm x 2.2 cm (1.69 inches x 0.87 inches).
CONDITION: In its original condition showing the age and usage with a nice dark brown patina.
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HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd - 1st Century B.C.
Nicely made with a cylindrical-shaped neck and a ring base
Dimensions:
Height: 15 cm
Width: 10 cm
Height on stand: 18 cm
Condition: Neck/handle professionally repaired hard to see otherwise intact
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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#811048
$550.00
For the discussion of the type as a whole cf. pp. 101-102 in: B. Sparkes, L. Talcott. The Athenian Agora. Vol. 12. Princeton 1970.
Ceramic
Athens, Inset Lip Class, 480-470 BC
D. 15.7 cm (6.2 in)
W. over handles 21.5 cm (8.5 in)
H. to rim 5.2 cm (2 in)
...
$550.00
The scarab is carved with a vase (?) flanked by a pair of hieroglyphs for the Cobra / Uraeus and further down the scarab beetle finely outlined in between hieroglyphs. The scarab is also finely carved on the back and with tiny details of body, head and legs. Note also the cylindrical finials for the horisontical drill.
Size: 22 mm. long and 16 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very...
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Roman period, Samaritan, 3rd Cent. AD
Dimensions:
Length: 8 cm
Width: 6 cm
Condition: Good condition with some chips and age weathering as shown
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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#930579
€550.00
The base is wooden and made for it, wich measures 63mm x 30mm
An Egyptian bronze bull depicted walking on an intergral rectangular base. Bull measures 50mm in length and stands 50mm high from the base to the top of the horns. The tip of one horn and one ear lost, otherwise condition is good, with a dark freen patina , late Dynastic Period, c. 664-332 B.C.
Condition: look at pictures
If you are interested,...
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Roman period, 2nd - 3rd Cent. AD
Dimensions:
Length: 8.5 cm
Width: 6 cm
Condition: Good condition not repaired and not restored
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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#810228
$550.00
$550.00
A fine representation, perhaps made as tomb pottery.
Size: 11,3 cm. long and 9 cm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, with tiny loss to it's ears or horns, othervise choice and with preserved pigments.
Ex Old 1980s private collection
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Fertility Goddess
Iron Age II, Israelite: 1000-586 BC.
Time of the kings of ancient Israel"
Terracotta figurines of Astarte (Ashtoret), were prominent in daily Israelite religious practice, and were worshiped probably by women. They have been excavated in Judean sites, particularly in Jerusalem, from where the finest examples come, dating mostly to the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.
Measurements: Height: 6.5 cm - Width: 4.5 cm - Height ...
$550.00
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.
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ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 2nd Cent. AD
Yellowish color, roundel flat body with a little cylindrical shape neck.
Dimensions:
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 3.5 cm
Condition: Very good condition.
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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940687
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Holy Land – Middle Bronze Age, 1850 – 1550 BC
Canaanite; Time of Abraham
Nicely made with a rim folded outward and a rounded flat base
Measurements:
Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 15 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm
Condition: Minor chips at the rim as shown otherwise intact
Found near Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
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$549.00
€549.00
Comparison: Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Baseler Sammung. Page 246 n.276
Origin: Egypt
Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynastie
$549.00
$540.00
The young god has put his right arm over the head and may hold a flower (?) The button of a garment close to the neck.
Superb modeling with much use of the modeling tool.
For a similar example from Myrina, cf. lot no. E161 in: Friedrich W. Hamdorf et al. Die figürlichen Terrakotten der Staat...
$540.00
Carefully embossed head with soft classical features, heavy moustache and beard and curled hair surrounded by a row of dots.
Pierced nipples, holes for fixation.
Silver
Eastern Mediterranean, 5th/4th Century BC
H. 9.3 cm (3.7 in)
Appealing item with missing extremities. Wrinkles along the neck and the waist.
Gerhard Hirsch Auktionen, Munich (Germany), Septembe...
$525.00
She is standing in fine romes with the mural crown headdress and veiled, playing on a tympanum.
Size: 15,4 cm. tall.
Condition: Intact with minor chips, uncleaned with encrustations and remnants of pigments.
Ex. Private collection, aquired before 1980.
$525.00
$525.00
$525.00
Attractive conical jar in fine hardburnt redish and darker pottery.
Height: 9 cm.
Condition: Good Very fine and intact. With tag and number in pencil from older collections.
From French Collection, Ex Bonhams Auktion 23.10.2021, Lot 285. Ex Joseph Klein collection, formed in New York between 1941 - 1980.
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Measurements: Length: 7.5 inches
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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...
$520.00
For a similar cup close in size, cf. item no. 6211a 1 in: Morel 330-300 BC
Ceramic
Greek Campanian, 350-300 BC
D. 15.5 cm (6.1 in)
W. over handle 19 cm (7.5 in)
H. 5.9 cm (2.3 in)
Intact and fine, superb black gloss.
Swiss private collec...
$500.00
Provenance: Ex Private old Canadian collection of antiques and antiquities formed in the 1980s.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
MEASUREMENTS:
Width approximately: 13.5 x 13.5 cm. (5.31 x...
$500.00
$500.00
$500.00
"Terra sigillata" is a fine type of Roman ceramic, coveted for its smooth, red slipped finish that emerged around 40 B.C. in Arretium (modern Arezzo) in central Italy and had an enormo...
$500.00
She was both a fierce lioness and the goddess of medicine connected with the soothing of illness and warding off trouble in general.
...
$500.00
The Etruscans knew a great variety of votive terracottas, which they placed in their temples as thanksgiving offerings or wishes for healing.
Some of the votive eyes found appeared with eyelids and the periocular tissue, while others just showed the eyeball. The first may have referred to disorders like conjunctivitis, the other to myopia and cataracts.
One-eyed owner Moshe D...
$500.00
$500.00
DIMENSIONS: Height: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in). Width: 2.2 cm (0.866142 in).
CONDITION: In its original condition showing the age and usage.
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$500.00
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"Terra sigillata" is a fine type of Roman ceramic, coveted for its smooth, red slipped finish that emerged around 40 B.C. in Arretium (modern Arezzo) in central Italy and had an enormo...
$500.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Overall length: 9.5 cm. (3.74 inches).
Height Approximately: 5 cm. (1.97 inches).
CONDITION: The lamp is in good condition considering its age of 3000 years. Showing age and usage, with traces of wear with areas of earthen encrustation. No cracks, repairs, restoration. Base inscribed with collection number.
For relate...
$500.00
