All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1221907 (stock #4114)
tlapacoya
$250.00
Pre-Columbian Mezcala Maskette, Stone. 5’ x 3.5” 1.5” Circa 600 B.C. – 300 A.D. Provenance: Auction – Southwest College, La Mesa, Ca.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Pre 1900 item #1422742
Global Ceramics
$250.00
Three English silver fiddle serving spoons, all three made in London. One is Georgian, the other two Victorian. Spoon with engraved N has year marks for 1841 and makers mark GA for George William Adams, engraved JJH 1842, makers mark RB for Richard Britton and AVW 1829, makers mark JH for Jonathan Hayne. Length "8 ¾ - 9/ 22.5 – 23 cm, weight altogether 213 grams. Condition: fine.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : American Indian : Baskets : Pre 1910 item #1471072 (stock #T304)
Antique, circa 1900 AD, Native American Indians, Eastern Woodlands region, circular trivet made of sweetgrass and birch bark. The top is adorned with a floral pattern made of porcupine quills.

The reverse is inscribed with several names written in pencil and dated "June 25, 1913". Use it as a trivet or hang it as art.

APPROXIMATE MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 27 cm (10.6 inches)...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #91857 (stock #81)
Nice Qing Dynasty blue and white bowl. Nice glaze and cobalt blue ! 2 very short nearly not visible hairlines to the rim, minute rim fritting. D : 4,75 inc.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Middle Eastern : Metalwork : Pre 1900 item #1348196 (stock #IS295)
This is an 18th-19th century Turkish Ottoman Islamic tinned copper ewer. The bulbous body rises from a short foot to a tapering neck. It has a hinged domed lid terminating in a foliate knop, an elegant S-shaped handle, and a curved spout.

This is a fascinating piece of Islamic artistry - Turkish Ottoman Islamic tinned copper ewer. The body of the ewer is crafted in a bulbous shape that is pleasing to the eye...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1389827 (stock #5A34B)
Tiffany specially retailed English Brownfields Porcelain large and deep Soup Plate, wide Burgundy Wine color rim with raised gold design of sprigs of leaves and nuts, and also small flowers are done in Silver, harmonized together on the wide Burgundy color rim, Ca. 1860-1890, 10" diameter, 1 1/2" high, Silver small flowers are just so beautiful among high quality raised Gold wreath of leaves and nuts plus Silver flowers on the wide Burgundy color rim...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1446199
An antique Japanese merchant money storage box made entirely of Suginoki (Cryptomeria) wood. Single drawer with hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite handle. Used by a merchant to keep coins, IOU's, and yen currency for daily business use. Original iron corner reinforcements adds strength and durability to this box.

Age: Meiji Period (1880-1890)

Dimensions: 13 1/2" Wide by 7 3/8" High by 15 1/2" Deep
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1470426 (stock #A27)
This is an exquisite piece of history - an arrowhead that was used by the skilled Achaean archers in Ancient Greece. It is made of durable bronze and has a unique V-shaped tanged design known as type VIIIb. This arrowhead belongs to the Bronze Age period, which lasted from around 1500 B.C. to the final phases of the Mycenaean era in 1100 B.C. - a time that coincided with the legendary Trojan War. It's fascinating to think about the battles that were fought with weapons like these...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Baskets : Pre 1930 item #1480071
Late Taisho (1920s) Japanese woven bamboo ikebana basket, can be used both as a free standing vase and as a wall vase for tea ceremony. Superb piece made in free Japanese (as opposed to Karamono - more formal Chinese) style, woven loop on the back for hanging. Finely woven lightly smoked narrow strips made from awesomely beautiful finely spotted bamboo, which grows in Kyoto region. Perfect symmetry to weaving of the bottom, wonderful warm patina, black lacquered bamboo insert...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Holy Land : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1492621 (stock #A134)
Ancient Holy Land. circa.50 B.C to 50 A.D. Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great Terracotta Oil lamp with round conical body and a large central filling hole with a raised ring border and Three Flame nozzles.

CONDITION: Unbroken, with some chips on outer edge and inner ring. Nice patina, showing the age and usage, sooty nozzles from original use, some spots with old wax deposits on the surface.

MEASUREMENTS: Diameter: 8. cm (3 15 inches) Height: 3 cm (1.18 inches)...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Sculpture : Pre 1700 item #960758 (stock #0183)
1600s or earlier

This figure has old losses to both forearms. The features are worn and it is blackened overall from incense and candle smoke, but it has a pleasant, soft patina. A metal nimbus was originally attached to the back with a small strip of metal that still remains. Acquired in Kyoto in the early 1970s.

Height: 6 in.

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1486990
This is a Qing dynasty blue and white plate
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Furniture : Pre 1900 item #1334888 (stock #3A119A)
Japanese early Meiji period deep wood Merchant chest, or box with three(3) deep graduated size drawers with black iron handles, 11" high, 16 1/4" deep from front to back, 8" wide, retains light honey color original finish. Dovetail joint around the back corners, wood shrinkage on top and side, shows the wears and tears, all original condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1396085 (stock #2A22)
Chinese underglaze Porcelain Blue and White Tea Jar, 18th century, 4 1/2", 1 3/4" diameter-top rim, 2 1/2" diameter-bottom rim, 4 1/4"w-widest area, underglaze blue design of Lotus sprouting upward from the water in the pond, interlocking with precious Chinese symbols, unglazed bottom rim and top. The bottom shows the double underglaze Blue circles. The condition is good, no damages or restorations.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1434984
Early Roman Imperial Period silver mirror, ca. 1st to 2nd. century BC

Wonderful mirrow either solid silver or a very thick silver plating - we think it's solid silver with some cuprite oxidation on the surface. A very interesting piece and quite attractive!

Size: 85 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Superb for type, should enhance if cleaned.

Ex. Collection of Karl Jakob Müller, Frankfurt, collected between 1950-1977.



All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Central Asian : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000 item #1395558 (stock #1-1142)
Cylinder seal with an incised design representing two helmeted horsemen hunting a lion. Bronze, with fine reddish patina. Bactria, ca. 400 B.C. Height: 3 cm. Very good condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Korean : Metalwork : Pre 1920 item #1362872 (stock #P-192)
A large, heavy, Korean brass candle holder, consisting of six parts: (1)a base pan on which screws the (2)candle stick, (3)a small pan to contain the wax, (4)a bracket to hold the light reflector, (5)a fan shaped light reflector which is secured by bat shaped brackets on both sides, and (6)a candle snuffer. This candle stick dates to the turn of the Century, Yi Dynasty, and measures overall 32 3/4" high. The base pan measures 10 3/4" in Diameter x 2 1/2" high. The condition is excellent.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Swords and Related : Pre 1800 item #1481751
18th century good size unsigned iron Japanese sword tsuba with a scene of an egret in a shallow stream with aquatic plants and reeds under a bare willow tree. Elegant design in Japanese taste, bronze and silver inlays with gilded highlights, overall in very good condition. Height 3 5/16 inches.