Attractive thick cylinder seal in brownish black stone, Mesopotamia, 4th. mill. BC.
Finely carved with raised details with a cruciform / millsail pattern within a dotted border.
Size: 18 mm. wide and 20 mm.
Condition: Nice VF, some even wear.
This seal was aquired 1992 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection...
A large and unusual bifacial stamp seal, Ubaid-Uruk period, Late 5th.-4th. mill. BC.
The seal is round and relatively flat with central piercing and engraved with a symethrical Cruciform pattern on one side and a horned animal on the other side.
Size: c.30 mm...
A nice yellowish patinated shell seal Akkadian, ca. 2340 - 2193 BC.
Interesting and rare depiction of two enthroned deities with attendant or worshipper between them.
Size: 30 x 19 mm.
Condition: Very fine and intact, with some wear and low relief to the top of the image.
Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and his hard imprint.
A choice Islamic Sgraffito pottery bowl, Bamiyan, c. 12th cent AD.
Nice earthenware bowl with incised decorations in the interior. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors in splashy designs.
High, rounded walls on a narrow base, folded lip.
Size: 17 x 8,7 cm.
Condition: Choice. Intact w. hairline repair. Fine condition for the type with original glaze from the period stated...
A very attractive Sassanian stamp seal carved with an animal with it's turned back, a trident symbol and a fine long line of Pahlevi script above.
Finely inscribed seal in a mottled hard stone.
Size: c. 15 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine.
Ex. German private collection, Ex. Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.
A beautiful & large Indus Valley pottery jar, dating to c. 3rd mill. BC. Probably Mehrgarh-civilisation.
The jar is designed beautifully as a large beaker with a wide mouth, a concave body on a narrow base. The jar is decorated with several concentric rings and an animal and a flower. The other decorations could be some sort of writing (?).
Size: ca 14 cm each 8-9 cm. wide - nice pieces from Indus Valley.
Condition: Superb for age and type...
A lovely Pre-Dynastic / late Neolithic gable seal with a an artful engraving, Mesopotamia, 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.
Carved in a beautiful mottled grey stone, gable shape almost scaraboid shape, hence the late dating. The seal carved with an animal fighting a snake - probably a Manguster or a fox, above a Lizzard. Really nice, lively carving!
Size: 26-27 mm...
A large and interesting interesting cylinder seal in greyish-black stone, Western Mesopotamia, 4th. millenium BC.
Thre central deities, bulls eyes and a snake!
Size: 27 mm. tall and 15 mm. wide, which gives an impressive large imprint.
Condition: Nice Very fine or better, intact with minor wear...
A collection of 7 ancient beads, incl. massive early trailed beads from late Achaemenid to the Islamic period of the Ancient Near East, c. 4th. cent. BC- 8th cent...
A very attractive stamp seal of the Uruk period of Mesopotamia, carved in a scaraboid / gable form, 3rd. mill. BC.
Substantial seal carved and finely polished in a beautiful diorite hardstone, very popular and scarce in antiquitiy and used extensively by the Egyptians. A black hardstone with white inclusions. The seal in the gable of scaraboid shape and with the preffered carvings of globular patterns of the Uruk period stamp seals of Mesopotamia.
Size: 25 x 24 mm and 10 m...
A fine lot of 5 stone stamp seals of the hemispheric or button-shape in different kind of stones incl. serpentine and chlorite, North/west Mespotamian 5th.-4th. millenium BC.
The seal bases mainly engraved with different cruci- forms, but there's also a much earlier Halaf period seal in this lot.
Size: Up to c. 16-17 mm. in diameters
Condition: Mostly intact and very fine, one seal with a crack, another with smaller losses and wear.
Provenance: Gust...
Hand-formed statuette of a small bird on a high foot. Compact head with pointed beak and hinted comb. Tiny punctures for the eyes and around the neck. The short body is followed by a broad, fanned tail with transverse and longitudinal grooves for the feathers.
Votive offering or toy.
Terracotta
Syro-Hittite, 2nd Millennium BC
H 4.3 cm (1.7 in)
L 3.3 cm (1.3 in)
Intact. Base with minor chips.
Ex Bonham’s London, 16.05.2002, lot no. 652.
J...
A very early stone cylinder of the group of massive Uruk seals, Uruk-Jemdet Nasr, probably late 4th. mill. BC. in Mesopotamia.
A very thick seal engraved in a fine black stone with symethric eye symbols in the drill style.
Size: 22 mm. thick and 27 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, with even Wear and fine patina with deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, ...
Attractive and impressive large stamp seal, engraved with an intriquing geomethric design, Anatolia or Mesopotamian, c. 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.
Interesting design of the seal, floral or perhaps female fertility forms, deeply engraved in the black serpentine stone. Looks a bit like some of the designs during Jemdet Nasr, which could date this seal to around 3300-2900 BC
Size: c. 30 x 27 mm.
Condition: Choice VF, light wear to the edge but basically intact and attr...
Finely painted and early Indo-persian manuscript depicting a important with elephants and royalty. The other side with text. Finely coloured and gilt in parts!
Size: 24,7 cm x 17 cm.
Ex. Strømberg Antiques, Copenhagen, 1980s.
A fine solid bronze figure of a Rooster / Cockerel, ca. 10th.-12th. century AD.
A beautiful figure, sculptured in the round in a naturalistic manor, very attractive and scarce.
The Rooster has finely engraved feathers on the body and tail. A hole at the top for the loose mohawk which is now missing.
Size: 8 cm. long and 7,8 cm. high. Dark green patina with redish highlights.
Condition: Very nice, some corrosion to the tail and feet but othervise so...
A lovely lot of handpicked bronze stamp seals with fine caligraphy, Ottoman / Syrian?, c. 15th.-18th. cent. AD.
The lot incl. a couple of rare larger seals of fine style as well as early personal seals with greek letters!
Condition: Choice, fine patinas, one seal bend and one with handle lost.
Finely painted and early Indo-persian manuscript depicting a late sunset trip on the river just in front of a fortified city. A powerful man seated on the throne, perhaps a Caliph or Emir, in a horse-headed boat with Concubines and attendants. The other side with text. Finely coloured and gilt in parts!
Size: 21,8 cm x 16 cm.
Ex. Strømberg Antiques, Copenhagen, 1980s.