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 | Fine quality Ohi Ware Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura |
 | Antique Tibetan painted wood image of Green Tara Bodhisattva |
 | Egyptian nacklace with faience beads and Shu amulet. - c. 19,89 inches |
 | Incredible Bronze Ge Axe, Buckle and Finial Set |
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 | A 17th Century e-Karatsu “Mukozuke” Serving Dish |
 | Hiroshige Ando Woodblock Print - Asakusa, Okuyama - Only Known Example |
€3,490.00
Carved in sunken relief as part of a funerary inscription, colored with Egyptian blue pigment.
Condition look at pictures please.
From an old German collection.
If you are interested, feel free to send me a eMail a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
$3,450.00
The lip around the spout is shaped as an oversized disc. Its back was bent by the potter to create space for an unusual ring handle of square cross-section.
Decorated with orange and purplish black bands alternating with very thin fillets and diamond patterns. The front of the neck with chevrons, one of them spiky, both flanked by a branch or shrub...
$3,400.00
The visible face with carefully incised manes, bridles, and indicated joins to the legs. The eyes recessed to bear spheres of a different material.
The slightly bent groove between the front legs indicates that the attachment was put over an object...
€3,200.00
Extremely rare shabti of the Prince Hor-Nakht.
Prince Hor-Nakht was a son of Pharao Osorkon II, who ruled Egypt from Tanis in the 22nd Dynasty. Osorkon II
tried to control the entire country so he appointed his son Hor-Nakht as High Priest of Amun of Thebes.
Unfortunately, Hor-Nakht died already at the age of nine. He was buried in the same tomb as his father in the
royal necropolis in Tanis (Hor-Nakht was placed in the same Chamber as his father Osorkon II)...
$3,200.00
The panther has turned the head towards the viewer and shows a spotted coat.
The shallow vessel shows a low dome-shaped top, the small flaring spout raises obliquely from the shoulder; overarching handle. The flat base reserved with a tiny mold on the edge.
For a closely related example, cf. CVA Reading, University 1, 43, pl...
$3,200.00
The feet of another bird appear over the vulture.
Mut was an ancient Egyptian sky goddess and great divine mother. During the 18th Dynasty she formed the Theban triad together with the god Amun and her youthful son Khons...
Very good style and workmanship and nice white marple with patina.
Size: 12,5 cm. tall and quite massive, mounted on a wooden plint which makes it 15,2 cm. high.
Condition: Choice and intact, but with a small ancient loss at the back of her head, not affecting the details of the face and hair...
$3,000.00
$3,000.00
€2,999.00
Inscription: "sHD Wsir Ipt-Hm(t)=s ms (n) Hwt-Hr-m-Axt mAa-xrw"
"Illuminating of Osiris, Ipethemetes, born of Hathoremakhet, justified".
Ipethemetes means 'Ipet is her majesty' or mistress or or 'The Ipet of her Majesty'
The hippopotamus goddess Ipet was worshipped as mother of Osiris at Thebes...
$2,900.00
This very rare bottle has survived its long burial without damage...
$2,850.00
Volutes and flowers in the field, a discus placed between the heads.
Cloaked youths with strigilis and a walking stick on the reverse.
The side handles with a central ridge, the areas below show heavy palmettes with lateral volutes and bellflower blossoms. The neck with a laurel wreath.
The ...
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Roman Imperial, 1st Century AD
A charming hollow terracotta figure of a warrior wearing a helmet.
Measurements:
Height: 20 cm
Width: 8 cm
Condition: Good condition with beautiful natural patina
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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# 6978
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ROMAN, 1st - 3rd Century AD
A Sculpture Dreaming About Love
The subject is a young boy, who’s been out shooting arrows all day, and he’s fallen asleep.
The arrows have golden tips … that aren’t deadly as much as powerful. Supposedly they cause victims to suddenly be overcome with feelings of love. Greek bronze figure of sleeping Eros
God of love and son of Aphrodite, was a popular subject for small or silver statuettes...
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PERSIAN PERIOD, 1000 – 650 BC
The Master of (the) Animals or Lord of the Animals is a motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals. It is very widespread in the art of the Ancient Near East and Egypt. The figure is normally male, but not always, the animals may be realistic or fantastical, and the figure may have animal elements such as horns, or an animal upper body.
The Master of A...
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EGYPT, LATE PERIOD, 664 - 330 BC
A fine pair of ancient Egyptian bronze & alabaster almond-shaped eye inlays and eyebrows, the well-formed lid and cosmetic line crafted of bronze and inlaid with irises of alabaster; the pupils in black pigment. Perhaps from an anthropoid sarcophagus mummy mask or a monumental statue.
With remains of azurite and encrustations.
Dimensions:
Length of each eye: 9 cm
On stand:
Height: 16 cm
Wid...
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CYPRIOT, LATE BRONZE AGE, 1550 – 1200 B.C
The vase consists of two identical small juglets (bilbils) joined together at body, excellent workmanship and decoration, dark gray metallic burnish, a fine creation of the master potter in a period when pottery making reached a peak of achievement.
The jar is well proportioned, with a flaring neck, graceful ovoid body and a pointed base. The handle forms a bridge between the lip and the shoulder and is ...
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Biblical, Iron Age, 1000 – 900 BC
First temple period
“Time of Kings of ancient Israel”
RARE- Ancient pottery wine flask with an attached shallow bowl, two small loop handles extended from neck to shoulders. Decorated with a concentric circles “Spiral paint”.
Measurements:
Length: 21 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Condition: Minor professional repair hard to see at the cup otherwise intact and in good conditi...
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Canaanite, Late Chalcholithic - Early Bronze Age, 3500 - 2200 B.C.
Found in the Holy Land
Rare- ancient Canaanite copper Flat Axe-head and a Mace-head (Set)
Cast copper alloy flat / proto-palstave axehead from the early Bronze Age with a crescent-shaped blade. The body of the object thickens towards the middle and there are ridges along the sides, running perpendicularly to the blade. A slight ridge may be felt in the centre of the body where...
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PARTHIAN EMPIRE, 1ST CENTURY AD
Dimensions:
Length: 11 cm
Height: 10 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm
Condition: Good condition as found
All items that we offer for sale come with a certificate of authenticity.
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Dated from, 1096 - 747 BC
LARGE Ancient Egyptian elegant cosmetic vessel, in slender form with a collared rim, tapering to a narrow base. Artfully exploiting the banding in the stone, excellent surface preservation.
Measurements:
Height: 21 cm
Diameter: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 23 cm
Nicely mounted on a custom made acrylic display stand
Condition: Minor chip at the rim around neck as shown otherwise intact, untouched as f...
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BRONZE AGE, PERSIA, 1200 – 800 BC
Beautifully made with remains of limestone inlay on the handle, untouched as found.
This fantastic weapon has survived intact and enjoys a gorgeous green crystalized patina and age related encrustation
Dimensions:
Length: 34.5 cm
Width: 2.5 cm
Height on stand: 32.5 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored
Nicely mounted on a customs acrylic “Plexi-g...
$2,800.00
The fantastic creature shows a beautiful female head with chubby facial features. The curly hair is entwined with ivy leaves.
The imposing lion body with powerful clawed paws and short wings attached to the sides. The cord around the neck is knotted between the breasts.
The figure is conceived as a pouring vessel. Next to the wing and the rear handle is a raised ridge with a sieve-like inlet. The p...
$2,800.00
The woman appears with long hair or a veil, the man is depicted with a short brush cut.
Arms and legs are hatched, the fingers indicated. The arms are bound together.
Between the figures a scorpion with segmented body and multiple legs. The grasping pincers are rendered as simple lines...
$2,800.00
$2795.00
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Dated from, 336 - 323 BC
Obverse:
Alexander in the guise of the demi-god Hercules (wearing a lion scalp)
Reverse:
Figure of the supreme Greek god Zeus seated on his throne holding a scepter and eagle
Dimensions: Length: 3.5 cm
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
A certificate of authenticity will accompany all purchases.
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IRON AGE II, 1000 – 586 BC
Time of the Kings of ancient Israel”
Concave-sided, hollow body, closed on either side end with convex disc, hole of different size on either end.
Measurements:
Length: 9 cm
Diameter: 6.5 cm
Height on stand: 15 cm
Condition: Intact, not repaired and not restored.
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel.
Hollow objects containing pebbles or clay pieces are found in Iron Age sites, mainly in tom...
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Greek period, 300 - 100 BC
Measurements:
Height: 14 cm
Width: 13 cm
Height on stand: 18.5 cm
Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite†display stand of high quality.
Condition: Good condition, untouched as found.
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#2746
€2,699.00
From an old German collection.
If you are interested, feel free to send me a eMail a.v.d.b@egyptian-artefacts.de
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MESOPOTAMIA, OLD BABYLONIAN, 1800 B.C.
Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
Height on stand: 14.5 cm
Ishtar (Akkadian), Astarte (Phoenician), or Inanna (Sumerian) was the most important female deity in Mesopotamia through the second millennium BC. She was identified with the planet Venus, and the sunrise. She was the goddess of both sexual love and warfare. The Greeks identified her with Aphrod...
$2,650.00
Lovely archaic medieval features of the dead or suffering christ with his eyes closed. He is looking almost peacefully, with his head slightly twisted to a side and pronounced lips, a thin / hungry look and a short beard. The piece probably from a niche, with the reverse half-finished.
White, finely crystalized marple carved in wonderful details and with a fine patination.
Size: 32cm wide, 21cm tall, 12cm deep.
Old Private Collection, aquired before 1980. Comes with our Certificate of Authenticity and auction provenance.
$2,650.00
The Severe Style marks the transition from Late Archaic to Early Classical art. It is defined by the simplicity or severity of forms, visible in both facial features and treatment of the clothes. ...
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Holy Land, Canaanite, Late Bronze Age , CYPRIOT
1550 – 1200 BC
Time of Moses
Alabaster bilbil with a shaped-neck and a flat base. Bilbils of this type are usually made of pottery and it is rare to come in stone “Alabaster”
Dimensions: Height: 12 cm Diameter: 7 cm Height on stand: 16 cm
Condition: Neck/Handle professionally re-attached otherwise intact.
Found in Hebron south of Jerusalem, Israel
ALL ...
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CANAANITE, Early Bronze Age, 3100 – 2700 BC
Beautiful Abydos ware burnished wine jug with a long neck with a rim folded outwards and a flat base.
Dimensions:
Height: 29 cm
Width: 13 cm
Found in Jericho, Israel
Abydos ware (a-BY-dos ware)
Pottery of Canaanite (Syro-Palestinian) origin found in the royal tombs of the First and Second Dynasties (The Old Kingdom) at Abydos, Saqqara, Abusir el-Melek, and other sites in Upp...
