Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (1730)

A rare and very early representation of a Deity, Ancient Near East, 3rd. millenium BC.

The deity likely god from Mesopotamia or Susa, but made in the Southern region and of the mixed intercultural style of Kermanh / Bactria.

The half figure fragmentary with a beak-like nose, large eyes and a small 'sailors' hat, with lumbs of cobber on the body likely representing clothings.

Size: 7 cm.

Ex. Old Private Collection

A very rare and elaborate set of Tweezers, hammered in copper with fine engravings on both sides depicting deities, Pre-Columbian, Moche, c. 300-600 AD.

A very high quality object, made for the removal of body hair, for an important person in antiquity.

Size: 54 mm. tall and 44 mm. wide.

Condition: Choice Extremely fine, cleaned with light deposits.

Ex. Lyngbye Collection, Jan Pelle, aquired in the 1960s.

A massive high quality unguentaria bottle made of clear glass with a blue-green tones. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle of impressive height and very solidly constructed, sound glass.

Size: c. 16,8 cm. tall.

Condition: Extremely fine, unusually solid and sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence and deposits.

Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!

A fine cylinder seal carved in an attractive beige-orange stone, probably jasper or coral, Mesopotamia under the Achaemenid Empire, c. 7th.-5th. century BC.

High relief provincial depiction of the Great King wrestling with stags.

Size: c. 23-24 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice VF or better, the seal dirty and will improve when cleaned.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, this seal aquired in the early 1990s.

An nice Head rest amulet, Egypt, Late Period, 664 - 322 B.C.

The stylized amulet carved in glossy red stone, probably haematite.

Size: 19 mm. wide

Condition: Very fine, intact but with some marks of corrosion and small chips.

Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973). He was a famous German Art director and head of the Berlin National Gallery as well as other higher positions. Educated as Art Historian...

A wonderful symethric style scarab of stylized form, Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos Period, Dynasty 15th -17th. 1786 – 1650 BC.

Interesting type with fish inside bullseye oval.

Size: 17 mm.

Condition: Nice VF, attractive brown patina and intact with some minor chipping.

Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...

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.

Very attractive thick early geomethric style cylinder seal, carved in a semi-translucent hardstone, probably Quartz, Mesopotamia, Jemdet Nasr period, c. 3300-2900 BC.

Impressive size in hand in a beautiful stone, scarce!

Size: 22 mm tall and 20 mm...

An attractive and affordable Babylonian cylinder seal in a scarce stone for a cylinder seal (Jasper), c. 1900-1700 BC.

The roll-out became bad actual seal is better and depicts seated deities.

Size: 19 mm.

Comes with hard impression.

Condition: Fine.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...

A lovely green hardstone amulet in the form of a double ostrich feather, probably New Kingdom, 16th.-11th. century BC.

The front is flat with a shallow central groove delineating the two plumes.

Size: 36-37 mm. tall. Substantial piece in hand.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...

Choice intact Lion Amulet, New Kingdom-late period, 1070-330 BC.

Depicting a crouching lion with large mane in torquise faiance. Superbly detailed for the type.

Size: 26 x 19 mm. long.

Ex Old 1960's-1970s private collection

An exceptionally larger and thus rare pottery bowl with torquoise glaze, and a finely decorated pattern in black on the interior. Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.

With silvery iridescence on the surface of both the interior and the exterior. Very beautiful colours. The patina and fine glass-like gloss is difficult to grasp in our pictures but is very visible in hand.

Size: 21-22 cm. in diameter and 10,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type...

Interesting early brass figure of the reclining Bull Nandi, Southern India, 18th.- early 19th. century.

A finely made figure, much older than most we've seen on the market.

Size: 9 cm. wide and 7,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, smooth wear from use and polishing, brownish patina inside.

Ex. Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from the 1950s and onwards. An important collection of Tribal African and Asian antiques.

Larger seal carved in almost black-green serpentine, the seal carved with an introduction to the enthroned almighty deity, by a worshipper dragged before the throne by a female deity. Dating The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, 22nd.-21st. century BC.

A nice seal with deep relief in the fine old style, cuneiform inscription behind the visiting worshipper.

Size: 24-25 mm...

A choice broad bronze ring, Ancient near Eat 2nd. part of the 1st. millenium AD.

Looks like a caligraphic ring and very early as such.

Ringsize: c. 19 mm. (max).

Condition: Very Fine for this type, nice metal and brown patina.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection of seals between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...

A fine and genuinely old silver mounted Prayer Wheel / Mill (‘Khor'), Tibet, 19th. century.

With silver in the midsection, mounted with coral and torquise, large silver folliage mounts on the top and bottom, bone suspension and a finely polished hardwood handle. Note also the silver lotus buc at the top. Guaranteed authentic old.

Lenght: 23 cm. and quite solidly built.

Ex. Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from the 1950s and onwards...

Interesting and elaborate large fragment of a collar of a Mummy Cartonnage coffin, Egyptian, Late Period to Ptolemaic, c. 712-300 BC.

A decorative piece of the entire collar, very thick and stable with great colours.

Size: c. 28 cm. long.

Condition: Good Very fine, choice for the fragment, stable throughout.

Provenance: P. Treffz-Eichhöfer collection, Stuttgart.

A lovely and rare pottery bowl or bassin depicting domesticated cheetahs or leopards, Indus Valley, probably Nal culture, 3rd. millenium BC.

The vessel finely decorated overall with three felines with spotted furs, and chained to small symbolic trees. Larger trees as spacers and a band of Ibexes above. Concenthric decoration near the wide rim, all in brown on a beige ground.

Size: 16 cm. wide and 12,2 cm. tall with thick walls.

Condition: Choice, good very nice...

A 'Nishapur' type of ware, probably made in the Samenid period, c. 10th. century AD.

Highly attractive and rare seen type of vessel with a lovely torquise glaze and two handles.

Size: 14 cm. tall and 13 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice and basically intact with a chip to the footring restored and some minor chips to the glaze of the rim and short hairlines.

Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired between 1930s-1970s.

A scarce and nice Pottery Oil lamp, ca. 3rd. century AD.

The lLamp in greish pottery, displaying the portraits of Isis and Sepatis on the Discus.

Size: 10 cm.

Condition: Intact, some even wear.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection.

Interesting Bifacial stone stamp seal, East-Anatolian, probably in the time of Uruk, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

Deep carving in an attractive dark green stone with a palmtree or a palm-leaf engraving one one side and a human and a snake(?) on the other side. Early depiction of a human figure, in the nice drillstyle.

Size: 23 mm. wide over the base and 21 mm. tall.

Condition: Near VF, chip to the edge of one of the seal bases.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (...

A lot of 4 lovely points in fine hardstones and silex from the private collection of P.F. Wulff. We're selling this very old collection in smaller lots to give everyone a chance to own a small piece of the pre-historic Americas!

Two of four points are carved in scarce translucent hardstone, probably agate, and two probably in silex. One is Paleo-Indian from c. 10.000-8000 BC and others can probably be dated to the 2nd.-1st. millenium BC. Very hard material and amazing that they could...

Lovely bronze battle axe, Ancient Near East, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

Finely made battle axe with a long enforced and narrow blade with a ridge at the top and an elaborately made socket in a zoomorphic shape with a broad decorated backplate.

Size: 126 mm. long and 94 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Extremely fine, with a lovely deep redish patina with a dusting of green and earthern highlights.

Ex. Danish private Collection, aquired at the Copenhagen antiqu...

The great god with mace in front of lesser interceding goddess. UR III, late 3rd millennium BC.

Attractive larger two-coloured white stone, probably a sort of marble.

Size: 26 mm. tall and 14 mm. thick.

Condition: Nice Very fine, completely intact with fine wear.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with original imprint and COA.

A very large black stone stamp seal with high relief engraving, Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Ubaid-Uruk period, 5th.-4th. millenium BC. According to notes from the collection, this seal was found in Tell Halaf!

High relief carving of cruciform pattern.

Size: 32 mm. in diameter and 19 mm. tall, so a high domed seal, really large in hand.

Condition: Extremely fine, uncleaned deposits, very attractive.

This seal was aquired 1993 and comes with hard imp...

A rare and very impressive presentation quality axe, probably for a chieftain or the like, Indo-European or Indo-Eurasians of the Caspian steppes, c. 2nd. millenium BC.

Attractive with a very long slender blade and a great balance.

Size: 22 cm. long, which makes it one of the largest ancient bronze axes we've handled ever.

Condition: Very fine, hairline repair to the socket, fine purple and green patina with uncleaned earthern encrustations.

Ex. Old D...

A substantial carving in emerald of an Indian head Fetish, Native American, probably Zuni, Navaho tribe and 20th. century.

The carving is cut and polished in one emerald stone and depicts the head of a Native tribes leader, carved on both sides of the stone. The stone is transperant light blue-green and very beautiful.

Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these...

Interesting stamp seal in a greenish black stone, Anatolia, Neo Hittite states of the late 2nd.-early 1st. millenium BC.

The seal with high pierced handle and oval base, engraved with what appears to be scriptsigns, perhaps Luwian, we're not experts in these.

Size: 22 mm tall and quite massive.

Condition: good Very fine, nicely preserved with fine patina and a sharp imprint.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive...

A wonderful massive seal with fine engravings, 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

With the almost square seal plate and the type of handle this seal is the proto-type of the later Neo-Hittite seals, but this one much earlier. The base engraved with a large Deer with large Antler and on top, a smaller stag or horned animal, and a 3rd. animal in the corner, perhaps a hunting dog.

Size: 23 mm. x 22 mm. and 15 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine, light wear to one corner and with ...

A rarely seen scaraboid stamp seal, carved in Onyx stone, Assyrian, ca. 12th. century BC.

Attractive stamp seal carved with the scetchy image of a bull, scarab-shape after Egyptian model of the New Kingdom.

Size: 11 mm.

Condition: Choice, light chips around the horisontical piercing as usual othervise perfect.

Ex. Austrian private Collection, ca. 1970.

An ancient tomb sculpture of a turtle, probably a weight from a burial shroud, Chinese, Warrings states to Han Dynasty, c. 300 BC-100 BC.

Very rare and exceptional larger sculpture, made in fine crystalized white marble, imported from the Silk Road trade since marble was not found inside China. The sculpture depicts a turtle with a large snake on it's shell and standing on a square base.

Size: 18 cm. long and 11 cm. wide and around 8-9 cm. tall. The turtle weighs c. 2,1-2,2...

A group of some very attractive stamp seals in black and red stones, Mesopotamia, Ubaid period to figural, 5th.-3rd. mill. BC.

There's a pair of hemispheric seals with animals, 3rd. mill. BC, an interesting round seal in red stone, probably early Ubaid or Halaf period and lastly a round seal with handle in black stone, finely engraved with bulls eyes and radiates, c. 4th. mill. BC.

Size: Up to 22 mm.

The seals comes with original ID-cards from below collection....

An attractive silver dress pin with a finely sculptured finial, Roman, 1st.-3rd. century BC.

Height 10,5cm.

The head of the pin a small figurine of a lion with enlarged phallus. Eyes probably originally inlaid.

Condition: Choice and intact, with dark patina.

Ex. Old Private German Collection.

Attractive seal in an orange stone, carved with the image of Deities with weapons and a winged 4--legged animal, Greater mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period, c. 900-700 BC. Probably Levantine workmanship.



Size: 18 mm. tall. and 12 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with little wear.

This seal was aquired 1991 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberlände...

A lovely little Chinese bronze belthook, dating to early Han Period, ca. 200 BC-9 AD.

The belthook decorated with scrollwork on the front and has a central knob on the back. Wonderful azurite blue and green patina.

Size: Nearly 6 cm. in lenght.

Provenance: The old collection of Torunn Gulliksen Ihlemann og Jens Thygesen, formerly Kunsthallen auctions, København. Ex. Bruun Rasmussen auctions 1723/1544

A wonderful and very rare pair of female spectators seated on a bench raising arms as if applauding, Magna Grecia, ca. 4th. century BC.

Mouldmade in redish pottery (terracotta) with fine details.

Size: c. 14 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for the type and completely intact, with uncleaned sediments and patina.

Ex. Old private collection, aquired before 1980.

An exceptional style terracotta head of a bearded man wearing a diadem, probably the head of Vajrapani with features of Heracles, Gandhara, 0-400 AD.

Size: 88 mm. tall., 55 mm. deep and 53 mm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine and intact, earthern deposits, with the face brushed.

Ex. Danish Private Collection

A nice large stamp seal carved in green-black stone, West Mesopotamian, 4th.-3th. mill. BC.

An early prototype of the square stamp seal with a tallhandle, later so popular. This seal is engraved with stylized animals in it's base. Interesting´ly, it is also carved with lines and patters on the sides.

Size: 23x 27 mm., 25 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, some wear but attractive.

This seal was aquired 2003 and comes with original hard impression and or...

A very large and rare Amlash grey ware zoomophic pottery vessel.

A huge piece for type and culture. Ancient Near East, Amlash or neighboring cultures, 1300-1100 BC.

Finely sculptured to look like a large bird with the beak as the sprout of the vessel.

Size: A massive vessel!. Around 33 cm. wide and ca. 23-24 cm. high.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection, in Denmark 40-50 years.

Condition: Nice, restored from large shreds and complete with no ...

A massive and highly attractive bronze ring with winged horse and rabbit(?) below, Parthian Empire, 247 BC - 224 AD.

A deeply engraved oval bezel and oval ring ring with broad shoulders.

Ring-Size: 53-54 - male size with inner diameter of c. 20 mm.

Condition: Extremely fine for type, sound metal, wearable with a nice olive patina.

A lovely set of three superbly patinated bronze objects, Greece, Geomethric Period, ca. 8th Century BC.

The set consists of a votive vessel of globular form with handles of the Geomethric form and two charming large attachment bronzes or hangers of double discus shape.

Size: The vessel is 38 mm. in diameter, the hangers ca. 35 mm and 32 mm. respectively. All heavy duty pieces so the combined weight is ca. 105 grams.

Condition: Choice and of good metal, awesome p...

A wonderful and very elaborate larger fragment of a bronze belt plaque, Northern Europe, 9th.-11th. cent. AD

Nice Darkage-Viking style, made with multible twisted wires and held by a triangular and nicely decorated finial, two loops at the end.

Size: 42 mm.

Ex. Hafnia Coins inventory (Copenhagen), aquired in the late 1990s.

A selection 5 old and ancient native American silex arrowpoints.

These are difficult to date but surely very old and likely ancient. Native Types with fine patinas.

Sizes from 2,8 to 4 cm.

Ex. Okholm Collection

An extremely rare and important Etruscan offer bowl (omphalos), made in thick terracotta glazed pottery, 400-300 BC.

This shallow terracotta bowl is moulded after bronze vessels and has a dome-like omphalos emerging from its interior. Around the omphalos are deep relief decorations. Very rare in terracotta.

The exterior is finely glazed and the bowl has two holes for hanging, typical for the Etruscan ware.

Size: ca. 20,5-21 cm.. (diameter) Extremely large and ver...

A lovely greek pottery head of a female godess, likely Aphrodites, with intact neck and all detals preserved, Hellenistic period, 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

These heads was likely ritually broken in some cases and are not rare on the market, but this head are of much better quality and style than most heads for sale.

Size: ca. 4 cm.

Ex. Collection of a German Goldsmith, 1960-1995.

A finely shaped stamp seal from the Urartu Kingdom of the bell-shaped type but in veined Alabaster, very attractive! Seal is carved with an animal in it's base.

Size: 16 mm. tall. and 9 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine.

This seal comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection, see pictures.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reput...

An Amlash bronze humped bull pendant, circa 1000-800 B.C.

A very attractive bronze bull, standing on it's stout legs and with a oversize hump and pieced through the body.

Size: 64 mm. long and 48 mm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type, with very nice metal and great patina.

Ex Bavarian private collection, Germany between 1974-2015.

A rare and highly interesting early Indonesian bronze figure of a Peacock or Cock on a double Lotus throne, Central Java, 9th. century AD.

A very elaborate figure, ornamental in the form of a stylized peacock or cock, with and impressive tail. unusual and very rare example of early Indonesian Buddhist bronze sculptural art.

Refference: See a similar style bronze bird in 'Devine bronze' - Ancient Indonesian bronzes from 600-1600 AD (Paulene Lunnsinggh Scheurleer and Marijk...

An early, and thus rare, intact pottery figure of a lady with raised arms, Greek, likely Soutth-Italian workshop, ca. 4th. century BC.

Impressive large mouldmade figure; She has long hair and is wearing a necklace.

Size: 23,3 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb! Perfectly preserved with it's original white pigments and uncleaned sediments.

Ex. Old private collection, aquired before 1980.

A fine stamp seal in beige-brown stone, Levantine, c. 3rd. millenium BC.

The seal engraved with cross pattern.

Size: 20 mm.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections. Gustav Oberländer specialized in early stamp seals from the pre-historic and Dynastic civilizations in the Near East / Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Bactrian.

A larger for type Late Roman - Byzantine bronze bell, 4th.-8th. century AD.

Heavy walls and with finely patinated surface with green-brown patina. Very nice sound and would have been used for religious purposes.

Size: 8,3 cm. tall and 7 cm. wide, weighing 228 grams.

Ex. Private Collection, aquired before 1980.

Marple stone stamp seal, Anatolian / Levantine, late 2nd. mill. BC.

The seal of a pyramidal form, pierced through in the top and engraved on the face with the image of a Stagg or antilope with large horns within a frame.

Size: ca. 14 mm. tall

Condition: Choice and intact.

Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards. Comes with collectors own notes and photos mounted on filt with a hard wax impression.

A wonderful large and intact pottery figure, South Italian, 4th.- 2nd. century BC.

She is standing nude on a tall podium with garments draped behind her lower legs.

Size: 23 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice and intact with uncleaned patina and ancient pigments.

Ex Old Collection, aquired before 1980.

Carchi / Narino Culture. Ecuador, pottery jar with fine decorations of red on black glaze, ca. 850-1250 AD.

Size: 9 cm. high and 12 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice!

Ex. Provenance: Ib Olsen Collection, bought in the 1960s-1980s.

Attractive detailed Lion Amulet, New Kingdom-late period, 1070-330 BC.

Depicting a crouching lion with large mane in torquise faiance.

Size: 26 mm. long.

Ex Old 1960's-1970s private collection

A large and very beautiful cloudy Chalcedony stamp seal, Neo-babylonian period of Mesopotamia, 9th.-7th. century BC. A large and very beautiful cloudy Chalcedony stamp seal, Neo-babylonian period of Mesopotamia, 9th.-7th. century BC.

Pyramidal shape. Decorated with a stylized image, hole through the top.

Very nice stone quality.

Size: ca. 36-37 mm.

Ex. German Private Collection

A stunning, attractive macehead of a nice large size, in fine redish granite, 3rd. millenium BC.

The artifact is polished to a perfectly symethric compressed oval form with a deep groove in the center. These were made by the singlegrave culture and was a weapon like the battle axes from this fase and as attractive and perfect.

Size: 95 mm. long, 80 mm. wide and 57 mm. thick.

Condition: Superb, with fine patina and undamaged.

Ex. Private Collection. ...

A very attractive Jalisco pottery figure of a naked woman with large headdress, Mexico, Pre-columbian period, 200 BC- 400 AD.

Stunning quality with preserved moulded details and pigments.

Size: c. 17,5 cm. tall and 20 cm. incl. the fine dark wood costum made base.

Condition: Excellent and choice for the type, intact with small old loss to edge of headress at her left side.

Ex. Old Danish Collection, aquired in the 1960s-1970s.

A pair of ancient pendant from the Egyptian late-Ptolemaic Period, after 600 BC.

Both amulets are pierced horisontically to be worn as pendants. One is of the seated Bastet as a Cat (2,1 cm.), the other is a head of a human god or Pharao (2,5 cm.).

Wonderful small lot!

Ex. Old Private Collection

A large North African Red-Ware Oil Lamp, late Roman ca. 4th-5th Century AD.

The lamp with a Gladiator or Soldier depicted hurling something on the discus, heering pattern around. Knob handle and two filling holes. Makers mark on the back

Condition: Choice and intact, even wear to all decorations and fine patination and discolouration from ancient use.

Size: 11,8 cm. long.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection