All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1473670
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$350.00
$350.00
An impressive large cone-shaped stamp seal with typical drill carvings, incl. what looks like the male phallos (?), Mesopotamia, c. 3300-2900 BC.
Very unusual Cone shape for the period.
Size: 32 mm. in diameter and c. 20 mm. tall...
Very unusual Cone shape for the period.
Size: 32 mm. in diameter and c. 20 mm. tall...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1477211
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$275.00
$275.00
Interesting cylinder seal in black stone, Anatolia, Hittite Empire c. early-mid 2nd. millenium BC.
A fine carving of different animals in a charming later Anatolian style.
Size: 25 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with ancient wear and patina.
This seal was aquired 1990...
A fine carving of different animals in a charming later Anatolian style.
Size: 25 mm. tall and 14 mm. wide.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with ancient wear and patina.
This seal was aquired 1990...
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$1,250.00
$1,250.00
Rectangular basalt mortar vessel with stand plate and domed depression inside. Middle Kingdom, 2137 - 1781 B.C.
A very attractive motar vessel with fine ancient patina and wear from use, but completely intact.
Size: 10,7 cm. long and 7 cm. wide.
Reff. Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels - Materials and Forms (1989), p. 144, #151.
Ex. Old German collection, aquired 1960s-1970s.
A very attractive motar vessel with fine ancient patina and wear from use, but completely intact.
Size: 10,7 cm. long and 7 cm. wide.
Reff. Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels - Materials and Forms (1989), p. 144, #151.
Ex. Old German collection, aquired 1960s-1970s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1475857
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$235.00
$235.00
Interesting amuletic blackstone stamp seal, Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, 1st. millenium BC.
The seal was made during the Neo-Assyrian / Achaemenid period of dominance, c. 800-600 BC.
The engraving shows a Lion attacking a capride, on the other side a sword and a sun symbol and perhaps a mood symbol or a bird..? The last side below shows three globes. Very rare type.
Size: 15 x 11 x 4 mm...
The seal was made during the Neo-Assyrian / Achaemenid period of dominance, c. 800-600 BC.
The engraving shows a Lion attacking a capride, on the other side a sword and a sun symbol and perhaps a mood symbol or a bird..? The last side below shows three globes. Very rare type.
Size: 15 x 11 x 4 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1468585
A fine black stone stamp seal with high relief, Ancient Near East Uruk period, c. 2nd. half of the 4th. millenium BC.
High relief cross with recessed circles in each quadrant.
Reff. See Christies sale of the Erlenmeyer collection 6th. june 1989, lot 208 for a quite similar representation (finds in Tepe Sialkh and Tepe Hissar).
Size: 21-22 mm. in diameter and 11-12 mm...
High relief cross with recessed circles in each quadrant.
Reff. See Christies sale of the Erlenmeyer collection 6th. june 1989, lot 208 for a quite similar representation (finds in Tepe Sialkh and Tepe Hissar).
Size: 21-22 mm. in diameter and 11-12 mm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000
item #1437842
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$550.00
$550.00
A rare and elaborate bronze battle axe, Late bronze age or early Ironage, Caspian steppe ca. 1200-800 BC.
A finely made late bronzeage axe that combines stylistical elements of the Indo-European nomadic style with the Indo-Iranian style.
A heavy axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and a broadening downward curving blade. Peculiar for this culture is the large pronounced ridge on top on the blade near the socket
Size: 12 cm. long, 8 cm...
A finely made late bronzeage axe that combines stylistical elements of the Indo-European nomadic style with the Indo-Iranian style.
A heavy axe with a large oval socket with 4 ridges and a broadening downward curving blade. Peculiar for this culture is the large pronounced ridge on top on the blade near the socket
Size: 12 cm. long, 8 cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000
item #1447560
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$1,200.00
$1,200.00
A Pre-Columbian barrel-shaped vessel with Feline heads with large fangs, Peru, Moche Culture, 2nd.-5th. century AD.
Very vivid and beautiful ceramic vessel of zoomorphic design.
Size: 15 cm.
Condition: Intact w beautifully preserved colours.
Ex. Prominent Danish Private Collection, comes with COA and provenance back to a 1960s-70s. collection of Jan Pelle, Denmark.
Very vivid and beautiful ceramic vessel of zoomorphic design.
Size: 15 cm.
Condition: Intact w beautifully preserved colours.
Ex. Prominent Danish Private Collection, comes with COA and provenance back to a 1960s-70s. collection of Jan Pelle, Denmark.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479177
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$235.00
$235.00
Interesting and attractive seal carved in bone or perhaps tooth, North-West Mesopotamia, probably 2200-1800 BC.
The carving with birds and other animals and symbols.
Size: 21 mm. tall and 12 mm...
The carving with birds and other animals and symbols.
Size: 21 mm. tall and 12 mm...
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$695.00
$695.00
An early, and thus rare, intact pottery figure of a lady with raised arms, Greek, likely South-Italian workshop, ca. 4th. century BC.
Attractive mouldmade figure of a lady with raised arms and likely dancing; She has an alaborate hairstyle and is wearing a finely draped gown.
Size: 13 cm. tall.
Condition: Nearly Superb! Perfectly preserved, an unimportant surface chip to the glaze at the base.
Ex. Old private collection, aquired before 1980.
Attractive mouldmade figure of a lady with raised arms and likely dancing; She has an alaborate hairstyle and is wearing a finely draped gown.
Size: 13 cm. tall.
Condition: Nearly Superb! Perfectly preserved, an unimportant surface chip to the glaze at the base.
Ex. Old private collection, aquired before 1980.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Metalwork : Pre AD 1000
item #1452144
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$1,195.00
$1,195.00
A wonderful collection of 9 silver implements, Chimú-Inca period, ca. 12th.-15th. century AD.
The selection incl. a very large pin with oval hammered finial as well as a pin or small coca spoon with round hammered head and two fine pins with bird-head finials.
Size: 18,3 max to ca. 12 cm.
Condition: Choice.
German Private Collection, aquired between 1975-1985.
The selection incl. a very large pin with oval hammered finial as well as a pin or small coca spoon with round hammered head and two fine pins with bird-head finials.
Size: 18,3 max to ca. 12 cm.
Condition: Choice.
German Private Collection, aquired between 1975-1985.
Senatus Consulto
$695.00
$695.00
Greek terracotta figurine portraying a nursing woman. Such a depiction is considered a kourotrophor: a protector or nurturer of children. She is wearing a chiton and a veil and she is nurcing a naked boy. Likely Etruscan or Sicilian, ca. 6th-5th. century BC.
Size: c. 16 cm. tall and 8 cm. deep.
Condition: Choice and intact still with most of it's pigment preserved.
Ex. Old Private collection, aquired before 1980.
Size: c. 16 cm. tall and 8 cm. deep.
Condition: Choice and intact still with most of it's pigment preserved.
Ex. Old Private collection, aquired before 1980.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1467735
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$155.00
$155.00
A fine condition square stamp seal in black stone, carved with a elaborate cross design, the seal a flat square, Ancient Near East, probably Luristan, 4th. mill. BC.
Szie: 20 mm. x 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, hard uncleaned earthern deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
Szie: 20 mm. x 20 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine, hard uncleaned earthern deposits.
Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Oberländer aquired his massive and important collection between 1985 - 2000s, bought at reputable dealers and from old collections...
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$395.00
$395.00
An auspicious element in Hindu tradition, Deepalakshmi is a representation of Goddess Lakshmi, holding a lamp or a ‘deepa’ (diya) in her hands...
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Highly attractive boatshaped battle axe, from the battleaxe period, ca. mid 3rd...
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$425.00
$425.00
A large for type attachment from a brazier, a pottery container for fire, molded within a rectangular framework and set vertically with the head of Silenos, his long full beard extended forward to form support for a vessel.
Size: 14 cm. wide and 12 cm. tall.
Ref: Hayes, John W., Greek and Greek-Style Painted and Plain Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1992 ROM, fig. 247 - 250.
Size: 14 cm. wide and 12 cm. tall.
Ref: Hayes, John W., Greek and Greek-Style Painted and Plain Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1992 ROM, fig. 247 - 250.
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$750.00
$750.00
Interesting large amuletic seal in marble, probably crusader period, 11th.-13th. cent.
The seal was found in Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia - old crusader land. It was described in the large collection as a 'mystery seal', due to it's strange form and depiction on the seals base.
Finely carved in white marble with uncleaned parts of brown enbedded sand. The amulet in itself had the shape of a veiled Virgin Mary. The engraving on the base looks like knight, wearing ...
The seal was found in Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia - old crusader land. It was described in the large collection as a 'mystery seal', due to it's strange form and depiction on the seals base.
Finely carved in white marble with uncleaned parts of brown enbedded sand. The amulet in itself had the shape of a veiled Virgin Mary. The engraving on the base looks like knight, wearing ...
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$1,295.00
$1,295.00
A wonderful large Roman terracotta figure Aphrodite of the Anadyomene type, Roman 1st. cent. AD.
Exquisite roman statuette of Venus Anadyomene represented naked, standing, in contrapposto position, with a slight hip caused by the lifting of the right foot. With her elbows bent, she delicately holds back her hair. Her left thigh slightly sustained on a low altar that holds a mantle at the top and presents a bas-relief amphora resting on the front.
Size: 18,5 cm.
C...
Exquisite roman statuette of Venus Anadyomene represented naked, standing, in contrapposto position, with a slight hip caused by the lifting of the right foot. With her elbows bent, she delicately holds back her hair. Her left thigh slightly sustained on a low altar that holds a mantle at the top and presents a bas-relief amphora resting on the front.
Size: 18,5 cm.
C...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000
item #1479880
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$185.00
$185.00
A fine intact stone wig / seperate hair, BACTRIA-MARGIANA, late 3RD- early 2ND mill B.C.
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection
Separately made hair of brownish chlorite or steatite for the famous composite stone figures which are often missing their wigs / hairs actually!
A particularly well-carved hair with spiral-twisting indicated by grooves. Fine brownish stone.
Size: 20 x 20 mm.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection