This finely carved shell skull was found by the famous Dr. Allen Heflin on 9-16-61 in Cuautitlan, Mexico. This Aztec piece dates to 1200AD. It is drilled for suspension. A nice little ancient piece that could be used in jewelry. It is 1/2" long and solid.
An interesting and decorative Tibetan mixed metals dish, probably for a temple decoration, 19th/20th. cent.
The dish elaborately decorated with multible gemstones incl. corals, torquise, glass stones and filigree. Mounted with 4 small buddha figures. Hanger at the back and old note from the collector: ''This Plate En kript(?) was purchased by a Tibetan refugee in India in 1960.''
Diameter: 26 cm.
Condition: Choice Very fine...
An extremely rare seal made of solid silver c. late 2nd.-early 1st. millenium BC.
The seal of a familiar type of cone-formed seals, known in stone and bronze, as Western Mesopotamian types from Urartu and other Neo-Hittite / Neo-Assyrian client states further south. The seal engraved in the base with two figures.
Seals of silver are extremely rare from any of the ancient cultures, especially a seal this early. We've had only 3 other silver seals in stock for 25 years...
A concave cylinder seal in white-beige stone. The seal is carved with an elaborate pattern of Cruciforms and lines, Mesopotamia 3300-2900 BC.
The Jemdet Nassr Period in seal manifacturing,3300-2900 BC, were spreading from Southern Mesopotamia, where a great number of administrative cuneiform tablets and seals came from. Such seals was used to impress pictures or descriptions into soft, prepared clay...
The size of Covered Bowl: 4 1/4" Dia x 3 1/4" High. Pretty Japanese Ko Imari Iroe Polychrome Porcelain Covered Bowl. The covered bowl is made from fine quality procelain as well as fine glazing. It has sometsuke design finely painted at the border geometric design as well as the center design inside. the cover and bowl has pretty design of Marumon design with flower on large Marumon by the color of green, turquoise color, Japanese red and gold. turquoise color enamel is thickly painted...
Chinese Song dynasty five-petal foliate form bowl covered in a pale creamy-celadon qingbai (yingqing) glaze that stops above the unglazed flat base. The glaze is thicker and more of a celadon color where is drips down from the top edge into the interior. Circa 13th century. 6” diameter x 1 7/8” high. Good overall condition. There are a few tiny nicks to the unglazed edge and there are glaze losses to the outer edge that might have occurred in the kiln...
18C Chinese Export Famille Rose Floral Goose Porcelain Plate
Plate is decorated with a landscape scene of peony flowers and a couple of geese, the border with four single peony flowers, the reverse with four flower patterns.
Size: 23.4 cm diam.
Condition: Good. Typical pigment loss.
A nice classic terracotta head of a young woman, Egypt during the Roman Imperial period, c. 1st. cent. AD.
The head nicely mounted to a large mable plint.
Size: 12 cm. incl. the plint, the head along 5 cm.
Ex. Old Collection from Berlin, bought from the 1930s and onwards!
Hopi Pin With Original Open Clasp c. 1920-1930
1.5" wide x 1.25" long.
This pair of Chinese lotus shoes were made by a woman of limited finances. She bought what materials were needed for the vamp and supplemented with the use of rough home spun fabric scraps to cover the shaped heals and soles. The limited amount of expensive gold couching threads outlining the floral embroidery pattern on each side of the shoes indicates that this pair of lotus shoes would have used only for special occasions...
Lavishly decorated and partly gilt silver alloy bracelet set with red glass cabochons and relief geometric designs. Tekke Turkmen culture, Afghanistan. Height: 7,3 cm. Very good condition.
A turquoise glazed faience Ushabti figure, of mummiform shape, made in ancient Egypt during the late period, circa 1069 - 332 BC.
Provenance: from an old Merseyside collection.
Condition: there is age degradation to the surface and the tip of the feet has been chipped off.
9cm (3.5 inches) long.
A very nice and fine condition larger bronze dagger, dating to the 2nd. millenium BC.
Attractive greater Mesopotamian type of dagger with a short tang and two rivets in each top side of the triangular blade with a diamond shaped crossection.
Size: 28,6 cm. long.
Condition: Near Extremely fine for type excellent light green patina and fine metal.
Ex. Danish Private Collection, bought in the Copenhagen antique market in the early 1990s.
A small coll. of four Danish Neolithic Daggertime blades, dating to around 2200-2000 BC.
The lot consist of a small spear, 8,5 cm. Two fragments of daggers, 9 & 6,5 cm and a toothedged sickle / saw, measuring 12 cm.
An interesting collection of nice neolithic blades and fragments.
Condition: The spear is intact, the other pieces are large fragments. Nice patinas and old collection tags on all pieces.
Ex Private Collection.
White Song dynasty foliate plate. Good glaze cover to base with some wear. Two small chips have been filled and small chip to inside of base. Diameter: 6 inches; height: 1 inch
This Tibetan talisman has a sealed leather herb bag hanging on each side of a small bronze sitting Buddha which is also displayed in a leather casing. The Buddha is depicted as holding a small bottle. All 3 pieces are hanging from a matching leather strap so that it could be worn around the neck of the individual.
A Japanese tea-bowl and saucer of small “cha-sen” proportions decorated with a pair of Doves, symbols both in Europe and Japan, of marital fidelity, and a pair of small beakers with barbed lotus form rims decorated in a similar palette with reserves containing brocade patterns and a small boat set against a shore, as well as flowering prunus and other plants...
Terracotta votive plate depicting six seated Buddhist deities surmounting four smaller ones. Thailand, Khmer period known as Lopburi, 12-14th century. 91 mm high x 68 mm wide x 17 mm thick. The plate is nicely mounted on a custom stand. Abrasion due to great age, otherwise very good condition.