Senatus Consulto sells neolithic axe, spear, cylinder seal, scarab, tools, ceramic
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490557
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$875.00
Greek Apulian Lekanis, Lady of Fashion - Ca. 350 B.C., from the ancient Greek colony of Apulia, in southern Italy. Terracotta lidded pottery vessel with footed base, dome-shaped lid and knob handle. Lid painted in red-figure style with series of two Lady of Fashion in profile and two palmette panels. The Lekanis was used in antiquity to store soaps and scented perfumes...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Greek : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490556
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$725.00
An attractive Volute Krater - an amphora like vessel - with Volutes at the top of each handle, with reddish slip, Canusia, Southern Italy, Greek period, c. 4th. century BC.

An elaborate type at an affordable price!

Height 27,4 cm, width with handle, 15,8 cm.

Condition: Very fine for the fragile type. Crack at the top and handles / rim, reattached but the vessel looks nice with original surfaces and greyish-brown patina.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490554
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$1,050.00
A lovely intact and large Messapian oinochoe with rotelles at the handle, 4th century BC.

The decor in dark brown depicting between broad lines on the shoulder and corpus a circle of leaves and two laurel-branches...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1910 item #1490398
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$1,850.00
A very high quality early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, 19th.-early 20th. century.

The figure appears facing the front, symmetrical with its arms resting on its stomach, which was a sign of peace for the Baulé people. He is completely nude.

Wonderful facial expression even for the elaborate type, with its half-closed eyes, which resembles coffee grains, that give the face a serene expression...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490370
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$1,650.00
A rare painted early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, from the famous Danish Artist and Sculptor, Robert Jacobsen private collection and from the 19th.- or very early 20th. century

The figure appears facing the front, symmetrical with her arms resting on her stomach, which was a sign of peace for the Baulé people. She is dressed in a loincloth painted in black, red and white.

An artful carving in a hard dark solid wood...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1490369
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$1,850.00
An important high quality early wooden figure, Ivory Coast, Baulé, provenanced and from the 19th. century

The sculpture representing a seated woman, hands on her knees, seated on a chair, carved with incredible realism and details in the nude. Wood with fading colours and much brown-black patina. The sculpture presents the traditional baule keloids scars and a braided hairstyle, finely chiseled...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490345
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$375.00
A very attractive Sassanian stamp seal carved with an animal with it's turned back, a trident symbol and a fine long line of Pahlevi script above.

Finely inscribed seal in a mottled hard stone.

Size: c. 15 mm. wide and 13 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine.

Ex. German private collection, Ex. Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490344
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A very attractive saraboid seal, carved on the upper side with three section of grit-patterns, and on the seal base with a frontal stylized Rams head emblem, Anatolia, probably costal region, 2nd. millenium BC.

As a very precious material in antiquity, Lapis seals were expensive and thus scarcely seen today. This particular stone is in a very deep good color.

Size: c. 15 mm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, light deposits.

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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490343
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$895.00
One of the largest tablet or brick seals, we've ever offered. Bifacial tablet seals can normally be dated to around the 3rd. millenium BC. This is so delicately carved that it could be made somewhat later in the 2nd. mill. BC.

The black serpentine seal depicts a large Bee, filling the whole of the seal, and on the other side a Scorpion. Particularly, the Bee is masterfully engraved, so that even tiny details and textures of the bee can be seen...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490341
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$395.00
A very beautifully carved and polished stamp seal, Syro-Levantine, c. 1st. millenium BC.

A very elaborately carved seal with a tall handle, carved in a cream stone, very glossy! The seal is carved with a depiction of a large bird attacking a smaller animal, perhaps a sheep...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490340
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A high quality and massive Mesopotamian cylinder seal carved in dark serpentine stone, North-West Mesopotamia, c. 18th.-16th. century BC.

The seal is profusely engraved with a complex depiction of deities and animals. A central godess is sort of flying with her hands touching two creatures above. A worshipper in front with hands raised. Aray of animals and smaller figures including a Centaur below.

Size: 44-45 mm. tall. and 15 mm. wide.

Condition: Near Extremely...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Byzantine : Pre AD 1000 item #1490339
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$225.00
A nice wearable solid silver ring with monogram, Byzantine Empire, c. 700-900 AD.

Ring size: c. 19 mm. and round, weighing 5,68 grams. Solid silver.

Ex. German private collection since 1990. Comes with our COA and hard imprint.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490338
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$575.00
Elaborate Roman silver ring, 1st.-3rd. cent. AD.

The ring is moulded with a large female bust on the top. She is either a deity or a high-born lady, with a tall draped hairdress and diadem.

Size: about 25 mm. wide. 9.60 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact. stable and Wearable. The surface with corrosion and brown deposits.

Ex. German private collection since 1990s, aquired at Gerard Hirsch Nachfolger Auctionhouse....
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490337
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Another substantial Roman silver seal ring with a red carnelian intaglio, 1st.-3rd. cent AD

The ring a typical compressed Roman design and the carnelian stone engraved with a depiction of the Dioskouroi.

Size: c. 24 mm. wide and weighing 8.1 grams. The ring-size is c. 19 mm. x 16 mm., so it fits the typical ring-finger of a smaller male or a female hand.

Condition: Very fine, intact, but the stone was reset and there's chips to the silver-setting. Stable and we...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490336
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An attractive large Roman seal or signet ring, engraved intaglo in the silver of an amphora. The ring isself a typical male upper class silver ring, heavy and with high shoulders decorated with V-sections. The amphora is engraved into a seal on a stepped rectangular podium

Size: c. 27 mm tall and weighing 12,11 grams. The ring-size is c. 20 mm. by 20 mm., so average to larger male ring-finger size.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb brownish tone to the silver, no corrosio...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Pre AD 1000 item #1490335
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Interesting and very attractive large Roman seal or signet ring, with a green Jasper intaglio, depicting a Galley / trireme. The ring isself a typical male upper class silver ring, very heavy and with the high shoulders decorated with scroll.

The Jasper stone very nicely engraved with details of the man at the rudder. This ring could have belonged to an important man in the fleet.

Size: 3 cm. wide and weighing 15 grams. The ring-size is c. 22 mm. x 20 mm., so it fits the ri...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490320
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$95.00
A larger and very refined La Tolita head. He wears a giant nosering and a cap, in hard burnt stoneware.

Size: 5 cm. tall and 5 cm. wide. Unmounted.

Condition: Choice.

Ex Old German Private Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1490283
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$150.00
A nice terracotta head of Bes, fragmentary and corroded, but substantial and with fine classic features, Egyptian, Late-Roman Period, 500-100 AD. Comes attached to the original German gift letter from the 1920s-1930s.

Size: 70 x 55 mm.

Ex. Old German Private Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Glass : Pre AD 1000 item #1490282
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$225.00
A very nice lot of stringed glass bead and bird-amulets etc. also in coloured glass, including a perfect condition, Roman miniature glass jug with handle and openwork design, c. 1st.-4th. century AD.

Size: c. 40 cm. of beads and amulets in a single row, the jug is c. 21-22 mm. tall.

Ex. German Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1490280
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$175.00
Interesting set of miniature work axes and amulets , c. 3rd. mill. BC.-1st. mill. AD.

The centerpiece is a mounted Roman or Darkage axe amulet (400-800 AD), here mounted to a wonderful modern repro of an ancient axe-shaft. It also cludes a European celt in bronze and Near Eastern axe amulets in Carnelian.

Size. The shaft of the silver axe is 41 mm. tall and 21 mm. wide for the amulet.

German collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Pre AD 1000 item #1490279
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A small selection of ancient archery, from different epoques and cultures.

The set includes a high quality knapping North-European barbed silex point (late 3rd. mill. BC), another Silex or Scert point Noth Africa/Egypt, (4th.-3rd. mill. BC), a high quality Greco-Persian bronze point with long tang and fine details! (Later 1st. mill. BC), A Greek period bronze point, probably European, A Roman triangular socketed point and another socketed point with a fine red patina, proably Near Eas...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1490264
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$185.00
A fine selection of beautiful early heads, pre-columbian from c. 300 BC-600 AD.

Mainly Mexico, Maya, but could be others as well. Incl. a lovely head of a wrinkled old man with big ears.

Size: Up to c. 56 mm.

Ex. Austrian Private Collecyion, c. 1960-1990.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Egyptian : Wood : Pre AD 1000 item #1490262
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Pair of nice fragments of mummy caskets in cartonage and wood / stucco, Egypt, 1st. mill. BC.

Both finely painted in polychrome with hieroglyphs and decor.

Size: 10-10,5 cm. wide.

Ex Old Bavarian collection from the 1930s and onwards.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Roman : Bronze : Pre AD 1000 item #1490261
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$95.00
Interesting lot, incl. two round bronze finials, finely decorated / finely engraved with swirly patterns, Roman or darkage, c. 400-1000 AD.

Size: 26-28 mm. tall.

Ex. Old German Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490259
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$895.00
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. tall.

Condition: Very fine, intact with some wear to surface, but a...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490257
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$695.00
Black Hematite seal with nice carvings, dated late in the Babylonian period, c. 18th-16th. cent. BC

Scene with intercessory goddess before God in ascending posture, male, crescent moon, fox, monkey, lion standard.

Size: 30 mm. tall and 13-14 mm. wide.

Condition: Nice Very fine, attractive seal and fully intact.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and hard imprint.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490256
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A finely carved late- to Neo-Assyrian black stone cylinder seal, depicting a winged matured bearded deity with helmet hunting a running animal in high relief, above is star and crescent, mid-to late Assyrian.

Size: 21-22 mm. tall and 10 mm. wide.

Condition: Good Very fine and glossy, very sharp imprint.

Provenance: The Karl Müller collection, Germany 1950-1977. Comes with COA and hard imprints.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1490253
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A very nice and quite interesting cylinder seal in a hard black stone with white inclusions on one side, Late-Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian period, c. 12th. cent.-9th. cent. AD.

A wonderful depiction of a 'Scorpioman' and a 'fishman', both depicted as winged matured men with long beards and pointy hats or helmets. Their lower bodies evolve into a fishtail and a scorpions tail. All within a heering pattern border.

Size: 29-30 mm.

Condition: Nice Very fine. Finely pr...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : African : Sculpture : Pre 1910 item #1490228
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An exceptional wooden mask of the WE or WEE people, Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia, c. late 19th. century - early 20th. century.

Very large and expressive hardwood mask with many early bells, cowrie shells, textile etc. 'Ble gla' singing mask with a human face and a beard made of bells intended to call the protective genies, with slit eyes and a forehead with a median vein.

Note that the skilled maskmaker, used different old bells, incl. a cow bell and other types and some pr...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1930 item #1490221
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Interesting and huge ceremonial crown, made in copper finely gilt laquered and chiselled, probably late 19th. century.

Consisting of muliple seperate parts and pieces that can be easily assembled to form this high helmet or crown for a Buddhist Lama. With many fine details and inserted glass pieces.

Size: c. 56 cm. tall and it does not come with a stand - stand in the pictures is not included.

Condition: Choice Very fine. Looks basically intact.

Prov...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1490220
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$695.00
A lovely substantial Persian stoneware bowl, late 12th or 13th century AD

Stoneware under an opaque turquoise and cobalt glaze with floral design and markings in black. Wonderful 'grazing' of the glaze and with irriscence.

Diameter: 21,52 cm. and 10,2 cm. tall.

Condition: Near Extremely fine for type, completely intact with small area of touched up glaze on the back. No repairs and exceptional gloss and patina.

Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired bet...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre 1492 item #1490219
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$450.00
A beautiful larger Persian ceramic vase, late 12th or 13th century AD

Ceramic ware under an opaque cobalt blue glaze and black markings, the surface with a spiders-web of golding irridescence!

Size: c. 19 cm. tall and 19 cm. wide, a substantial piece in hand.

Condition: Good Very fine for the type, almost 100% original glaze, perhaps some minor restaration to the lip of the rim, we're not 100% certain.

Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired between 1930...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : Himalayas : Pre 1920 item #1490218
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An interesting and decorative Tibetan mixed metals dish, probably for a temple decoration, 19th/20th. cent.

The dish elaborately decorated with multible gemstones incl. corals, torquise, glass stones and filigree. Mounted with 4 small buddha figures. Hanger at the back and old note from the collector: ''This Plate En kript(?) was purchased by a Tibetan refugee in India in 1960.''

Diameter: 26 cm.

Condition: Choice Very fine. A couple of stones missing and /or n...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Ancient World : Near Eastern : Ceramics : Pre AD 1000 item #1490217
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$395.00
A lovely larger Persian Cockerel-headed Ewer, late 12th or 13th century AD

Stonepaste ware under an opaque turquoise glaze. Wonderful 'grazing' of the glaze with irriscence.

Size: 21,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine for the type, almost 100% original glaze, repair to handle and a smaller few chips to the rim.

Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired between 1930s-1970s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Indian Subcontinent : India : Pre AD 1000 item #1490216
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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: c.8,9 cm. tall and 7 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice Very fine, smooth wear from use and polishing, brownish patina inside, some red on the back.

Ex. Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from the 1950s and onwards. An important collection of Tribal African and Asian antiques.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Sculpture : Pre 1800 item #1490215
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$250.00
An early decorative temple carving of a Taoist deity seated on a donkey, painted in white, black, red and gold, Late Ming-early Qing dynasty, c. 16th.-17th. century.

Hidden room in the back, closed lid.

Size: c 30 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice very fine for the type and age, intact with much of it's pigments still preserved. Minor losses and completions.

Provenance: Ulf Gudmundsen collection, c. 1950s-2007.