All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Prehistorical item #1456230
A nice pair of Danish Neolithic silex Daggers. The daggers date to early Daggertime - c. 2200-2000 BC.

Skillfully shaped, thin blades with 'seamed' edges.

An interesting pair of neolithic daggers.

Size: c. 12 & 13,5 cm - 5-5,5 inches.

Condition: Nice. Intact daggers with nice patinas and smaller losses.

Ex. Danish Private collection.

***This item comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1403782 (stock #4547)
An unusual shallow Japanese porcelain plate (#2) decorated with confronting dragons, one in blue and gold, the other gold and red. The plain back with 5 neat spur marks.

Arita porcelain, circa 1750 ~ 1780.

Approximately 18.7 cm diameter...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1348466
19th century miniature Hirado porcelain sculpture / brushrest in a shape of a karako (Chinese boy) lying on his stomach with his head and feet raised. Excellent crisp modeling with incised details - see his superb face with inquisitive look, well defined collar and knot on the back. Excellent underglaze blue (see the perfect swirls of his hair knots), brown and black. Beautiful glaze with numerous tiny bubbles giving it depth, unglazed bottom, in excellent condition, very pleasant to the touch...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Pre 1920 item #13681
Topaz Steuben crystal compote in a classic form by Frederick Carder. Unsigned. Excellent condition with only the very slightest surface wear in the bowl. 6" diam.; 4-1/8" tall.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1465975
A fine Scandinavian ceramic urn or storage jar, Ironage, 1st. millenium BC.

A nice and massive undecorated jar in black clay with out-swayed rim.

Size: 23 cm. wide and 17,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Exceptional for the often restored types, intact with a few minor chips.

Ex. Danish Private Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1458160
A pair of attractively patinated and well-knapped axes, both dating to Daggertime, 2400-1800 BC.

The lot includes the finely knapped Daggertime types that are made as imitations of bronze axes of the period.

Size: 13,5 cm. and 13 cm.

Condition: Minor chipping to the edges othervise as made, exceptional marsh patina on both - brown and amber colours.

This lot comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1458161
A near superb condition silex axe, dating to the Singlegrave period, 2800-2400 BC.

A partly polished axe with a very attractive patination and in near mint condition with a razorsharp edge.

Size: ca. 15 cm. long.

Ex. Danish Collection, comes with COA.

This item comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark. The license will be issued after sale - estimated delivery of the item with official license is 2-4 weeks after the sale.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Pre 1910 item #1171043
This unusual glass paperweight is filled with a devil’s fire motif worked in vibrant opaque shades of red, white and green. The glass of the design has a chalky texture similar to sulphides, but is randomly swirled and peaked in the typical devil’s fire style. The glass of the dome is particularly clear and bright for South Jersey paperweight. There is an incised ring around the periphery, just above the base, that is often found in Jersey weights...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1491400
An attractive unpolished, thinbladed Danish neolithic axe dating to late 4th-early 3rd mill BC.

Very nicely knapping details on the sides and old collection tag - Found at Mols, Jylland.

Size: c. 17,4 cm. in length.

Condition: Good VF, choice axe with a lovely brown patina. a few minor chips.

Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Prehistorical item #1474976
Here's a pair of Thinbutted Danish Neolithic Axes dating to late 4th mill. BC.

Thinbutted axes were the preferred tool for clearing land, as the Neolithic civilisation came in the need of fields for cultivation.

Both axes in this pair are nice specimens from this development, and have probably contributed to gaining new ground for early Danish agriculture.

The axes measure 14 & 15 cm each, (c. 6 inches) but it is not unlikely that they were larger originally...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Prehistorical item #1492711
A pair of rare thin-bladed Danish Danish neolithic axes dating to 3rd mill BC.

Both axes have long, slim blades and sharp edges, almost like chisels but they are axes.

One axe is fully polished on the sides, the other is unpolished. Comes with old collection tag, and finding places written on the side. (Kirke Stillinge, 1938, and Moen)

Sizes: c. 14 - 14,3 cm in length.

Condition: Nice Very fine, with beautiful orange-brown patinas...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : Pre 1900 item #976005 (stock #1119)
A Mary Gregory Hand Painted Decorated Green Glass Pitcher or Decanter. Picture of Young Girl Holding a Flower. Late 19th century. Unfinished Pontil and Applied Handle. Dimensions; 9.5" high x 5.5" wide. Typical minor gilt loss but in excellent overall condition.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Netsuke and Related : Pre 1900 item #1458789
19th century Japanese iron mae-kanagu (tobacco pouch clasp fitting) depicting a scene of a samurai procession performed by six rats in different attitudes. Iron is notoriously difficult to work with. Excellent design, funny topic, superb crisp detailing, gilding to the eyes. Length 2 1/8 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Stoneware : Pre 1700 item #1484624 (stock #MC177)
Large Chinese Ming Dynasty Stoneware Jar with Spout

This unusual jar was made during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490559
Interesting and quite scarce early greek pottery spindle flask with fine brown glaze and concenthric decorations, probably Western Asia cities, 3rd.-2nd. cent. BC.

Attractive with the round marks from the pottery wheel and tiny details.

Size: 12,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very Fine, a small chips to the edge of the rim. Unsusually finely preserved surfaces.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, comes with COA.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1491418
A large Greek amphora handle, Rhodes, c. 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

The handle inscribed with a two line makers name / mark in Greek, fully readable.

Size: 10 cm. long and substantial.

Ex. Old European collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Metalwork : Pre 1800 item #1469486
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$195.00
Discounted, was $250
A set of the tiniest bronze 'opium' currency weights, we've ever handled!. All Burmese Chinte / Toe weights with square bases, 18th. century AD.

Nominals included:

1 gram = 1/16 Tical!

0,78 grams = 1/20 Tical?

1,46 grams = 1/10 Tical

1,54 grams = 1/10 Tical

2,93 grams = 1/5 Tical

Rarity: Rare-Very rare. Such low weights from the 18th. century are practically impossible to find on the market since most of these would ha...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : English : Pre 1800 item #1282134 (stock #g855)
A fine pair of 18th century English wine glasses in a unusual deep bluish-green color, each with an ovoid bowl over a conical foot with a polished pontil. Each is 5" tall, with a bowl diameter of 2 3/8" and a foot diameter of 2 5/8". Excellent condition with no chips, polishing, or other restoration.