Catalog (1005)

A wonderful and very heavy bronze figure of Ganesha standing, Southern India, likely Tamil Nadu, 17th.-19th. century.

Old antique bronze figure with a fine mahogany bronze patina.

Size: 19 cm, weighing 1,7 kilograms.

Condition: choice!, very nice patina.

Ex. Steen Stroemberg private collection

An very early and interesting bronze vessel from the early Hindu periods, India, 6th.-8th. century AD.

A huge Indian bronze ritual vessel with lozenges at the shoulder and spout in the form of head and neck of Nandi, the holy bull serving as mount of Shiva. In the ritual of Abhisheka the Lingam, the aniconic, often phallic idol of Shiva is sprinkled with liquids from a vessel in the form or with parts of Nandi.

Size: ca. 39 cm. wide and 36 cm. high, massive and heavy!
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Very rare pottery vessel with mythological scene with Bacchus, socalled Knidian ware, Knidos ca. 1st. century AD.

A cylindrical vessel related to the Bacchanalia rituals with all sides decorated with the Dionysian mysteries Dionysios/Bacchus in a cart drawn by beasts and with satyrs around him and also naked men and finely dressed woman dancing and riding on each others backs. Very interesting and wonderful style.

The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus, the Grec...

A finely patinated large Danish Neolithic sicle, dating back to later neolithic period, Daggertime, early 2nd. millenium B.C.

Wonderful crescentic sicle of a good size, measuring c. 13,8 cm. long. The rare late neolithic style, Nice workmanship have resulted in a thinbladed and exquisite flint artifact that will enhance most collections.

Exceptional brown patina.

Condition: Virtually Mint, as nice as the pictures indicates and quite scarce as such.

Ex....

A wonderful large silex axe, Time of the great buriel mounts, Funnelbeaker Culture ca. 3800-3500 BC.

Superb quality, great size with perfect symethri, typical of the large axes of the 'Peasant' age polished to an almost glass-like degree.

Exceptional colour for these - mottled brown patina, these are often grey or white.

Size: 29 cm. in length, scarce and in high demand as a type

Condition: Choice! a minor old chip to the edge. Wonderful warm brown pat...

A massive and very impressive silex axe, Time of the great buriel mounts, Funnelbeaker Culture ca. 3800-3500 BC.

Superb quality, very large axe with perfect symethri, typical of the large axes of the 'Peasant' age polished to an almost glass-like degree.

Exceptional colour for these - even brown patina, these are often grey or white.

Size: 34,5 cm. in length, one of the largest axes, we've ever sold, so very rarely seen on the market.

Condition: Choi...

A very bronze amulet of an Ithyphalic god, Zagros Mountains, Luristan, dating c. 2nd. millenium BC.

Likely a god of fertility, with beak nose, elongated head and large circular eyes, a small cap perched on top of his head, the nude figure with phallus, shown standing with legs widespread, his hands clasped together on his stomach and two ring dots stamped on the body, attachment loop on the back.

One of the finest and most detailed of this figure, we've seen and a rare repr...

A wonderful tall Pre-columbian vessel, Peru, Chimú culture, ca. 900 - 1470 AD.

Black-ware vessel zoomorphic design with head of a Pelican protruding.

Height: 21 cm.

Condition: Choice and completely intact with fine patina.

Old German collection (before 1975).

A wonderful untranslated large fragment of a faiance Ushabti, Egyptian, 2nd.-1st mill. BC.

Very impressive Piece of a faiance figure, which would have been very tall in antiquity. Only the lower part preserved here, but with clear and beautiful hieroglyphs, between 2-5 rows of text can be studied.

Size: 11 cm.

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

A rare and wonderful bronze and silver figure of Buddha, Borobudur style, Central JaVa, Indonesia, 8th.-9th. century AD.

A Borobudur style, with a particularly fine serene expression of Buddha, seated on a double Lotus Throne, with globe and large halo behind head. Note that this figure is covered with a very silver plating, so it's not silvered but plated with metal. This can be cleaned, but we only had the time to partial clean head and other parts.

An important and rar...

A wonderful style bronze figure of Kuvera with a bronze, seated on high oval base, resting on an lavishly decorated stepped Throne; Indonesia, Java, ca. 9th.-10th. century AD.

The figure unusual and he looks determint and serene at the same time. High headdress and leaning against a large and ornate back with an umbrella at the top. Lower part of the back is cast with feline animals standing a top of elephants.

The throne is a marvelous piece of art, with rats prodruding...

A wonderful Collection of 4 amulets in shape of the manu fica made of bronze and red and dark green jasper, attractively mounted on a lucite display stand, Roman, 1st - 3rd century A.D.

The fig sign is a mildly obscene gesture used at least since the Roman Age in Italy and Southern Europe and parts of the Mediterranean region, including in Turkish culture, and has also been adopted by Slavic cultures. The gesture uses a thumb wedged in between two fingers. This gesture is most commonl...

A fantastic presentation piece of a Hindu figure of Lord Kurma, a Vishnu representation where evolves to half turtle, half god, India ca. 18th.-19th. century.

The piece was made white bronze, inlaid with much silver, cobber and what looks like gold as well. Not gilt but basically applied metals. Wonderful workmanship and some extremely fine accurate details. The expression of Vishnu is serene, underlined by his inlaid silver eyes. The human half, which is the upper half, is depicted ...

A truely amazing Roman Terra Sigilate dish, Sigillata Africana, Carthage, ca. 1st.-2nd. centery AD.

The deep dish engraved over the entire center with an awesome swirling pattern, likely made through stamping or roling a cylindrical stamp. Very attractive and scarce in this fine execution.

Size: 16,9 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Choice! Completely intact with fine patina, a few tiny nicks to the upper rim, mentioned only to be fully correct.

Private...

A truely massive and impressive pottery Jug, Roman, 2nd. half of the 4rd. century AD.

An elegant jug in white-beige clay with wide neck, broad lip and bulbous corpus. Scarce piece in an intact condition.

Size: Nearly 30 cm. high and as the pictures indicate, very broad and solidly constructed.

Condition: Superb!, finely patinated.

Reff. Type Niederbieber 96.

Ex. Coll. N.R., Oberbayern, bought in Münchner Kunsthandel in the 1970s.

A rare representation of an Opussum on a stirrup pottery vessel, Pre-columbian, Vicús Culture 100 BC. - 300 AD.

Very attractive sculpturing in redish clay.

Length: 22 cm.

Condition: Choice for type and culture, a long hairline repaired crack through the vessel, othervise intact in all it's parts. Vicüs vessels are usually always cracked and this an honest piece that could be restored so that this crack is not visible with little effort.

Ex German...

An ancient red ware vase of impressive proporsions, Maya culture, Late classical period, ca. 600-900 AD:

An extra large vase with a round corpus standing on a very high foot and with highly flaring rim.

Size: 24 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice, some not visible restauration to rim and foot nicely done.

Ex Westermann collection, from the 1960s

A wonderful scarce and decorative vessel from the earliest fase of the Moche culture, 200 BC-200 AD.

Attractive modelling and red and cream slip.

Height: ca. 16,5 cm.

Condition: Very nice for type, some cracks restored, nothing missing.

Ex German collection, 1968 - 1980.