A very attractive large Udjat eye amulet, Egyptian, and probably Late period, mid 1st. millenium BC.
The amulet is vcarved in a hard Diorite stone, very beautiful in hand.
Size: 26-27 mm. wide and very thick.
Condition: Choice and as made, the drill went wrong, visible at the back so the artist drilled another hole just beside the first one.
Private Collection, ex Jürgen Haering, aquired at Galerie am Museum, Freiburg, 2008.
The amulet is vcarved in a hard Diorite stone, very beautiful in hand.
Size: 26-27 mm. wide and very thick.
Condition: Choice and as made, the drill went wrong, visible at the back so the artist drilled another hole just beside the first one.
Private Collection, ex Jürgen Haering, aquired at Galerie am Museum, Freiburg, 2008.
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$165.00
$165.00
A nicely engraved steatite stone scarab, Egypt New Kingdom, c. 1539–1075 BC.
Stylized with incised features such as the clypeus, prothorax and elytra marked by single lines. Decorated to the reverse with stylised geometric swirls and loop patterns. The amulet is pierced longitudinally for suspension.
Size: 16 mm...
Stylized with incised features such as the clypeus, prothorax and elytra marked by single lines. Decorated to the reverse with stylised geometric swirls and loop patterns. The amulet is pierced longitudinally for suspension.
Size: 16 mm...
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$150.00
$150.00
A nice intact carved pendant in green-brown stone, with the stone aiming to imitate rolled papyrus.
The scroll is widest at the top, where there is a neck below the for suspension. The base tapers into a softened point.
Size: c. 29 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...
The scroll is widest at the top, where there is a neck below the for suspension. The base tapers into a softened point.
Size: c. 29 mm.
Condition: Extremely fine.
Provenance: Formerly in the private collection of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)...
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$495.00
$495.00
A lovely somewhat pear-shaped stone mace head, carved in a fine speckled dark diorite stone, Egyptian Pre-Dynastic period, c. 3rd. mill. BC.
Finely polished and symethrically drilled and measuring 5,5 cm. in diameter.
Condition: Good very fine, intact with minor wear and patina.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, Old European collection purchased 1972, comes with COA from 'Ancient Art - the gallery, London.
Finely polished and symethrically drilled and measuring 5,5 cm. in diameter.
Condition: Good very fine, intact with minor wear and patina.
Ex. Cristian Spinu collection, Old European collection purchased 1972, comes with COA from 'Ancient Art - the gallery, London.
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$425.00
$425.00
An attractive and scarcely seen cosmetic vessel, Egyptian, Middle-New Kingdom, early-mid 2nd. millenium BC.
The fine jar, ovoid in form with a pointed base and a collar at the mouth.
Size: c. 60 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, small chips to the rim and minor wear, othervise intact.
Provenance: Peter Treffz-Eichoefer Collection
The fine jar, ovoid in form with a pointed base and a collar at the mouth.
Size: c. 60 mm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, small chips to the rim and minor wear, othervise intact.
Provenance: Peter Treffz-Eichoefer Collection
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$295.00
$295.00
A large writing tablet amulet in stone, probably a type of feldspar, 664 - 332 BC.
Size: 32 mm. tall.
Amulets in the form of a writing tablet are unique to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty and later. They are always rectangular in shape with a suspension tube at the top and made from green, blue, or dark-colored material, feldspar being by far the most common...
Size: 32 mm. tall.
Amulets in the form of a writing tablet are unique to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty and later. They are always rectangular in shape with a suspension tube at the top and made from green, blue, or dark-colored material, feldspar being by far the most common...
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$250.00
$250.00
A beqautiful intact hardstone Djet Pillar Amulet, Egypt, Late Period, c. 660-332 BC.
Finely carved and polished in a warm redish stone. It is associated with the creator god Ptah and Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead. It is commonly understood to represent his spine. The Djet is a symbol of stability
Size: 27 mm...
Finely carved and polished in a warm redish stone. It is associated with the creator god Ptah and Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead. It is commonly understood to represent his spine. The Djet is a symbol of stability
Size: 27 mm...
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$1,875.00
$1,875.00
An exceptionally fine Egyptian Bifacial seal or seal plaque, for Amenhoteb III, 18th Dynasty, 1390 BC-1352 BC.
The seal finely engraved with hieroglyphs. On one with the standing depiction of Ptah, the other with a bird and the carthouche of Amenhoteb.
Size: c. 17 mm. long.
Condition: Choice Extremely fine, very sharp miniature engraving and almost complete blue glazing...
The seal finely engraved with hieroglyphs. On one with the standing depiction of Ptah, the other with a bird and the carthouche of Amenhoteb.
Size: c. 17 mm. long.
Condition: Choice Extremely fine, very sharp miniature engraving and almost complete blue glazing...
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$895.00
$895.00
A very beautiful tall figural alabastron in form of Kore, Eastern Greek, Middle of the 6th century BC.
The portrait is in the tradition of the Kore representations, here as a young elegant woman holding a bird in her left hand, red-brown terracotta.
Height: 18,2cm.
Condition: Good Very fine, completely intact with very minor wear and deposits.
Ex. Old Austrian Private Collection, 1960-1990.
The portrait is in the tradition of the Kore representations, here as a young elegant woman holding a bird in her left hand, red-brown terracotta.
Height: 18,2cm.
Condition: Good Very fine, completely intact with very minor wear and deposits.
Ex. Old Austrian Private Collection, 1960-1990.
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$295.00
$295.00
Interesting cross hanger, carved in a dark steatite stone, with white slip or glazing. The white cross form is inlaid with another red cross form in sandstone or ceramics and done with an extra cross bar. Christian Egypt, 100-500 AD, probably Coptic.
Size: 11,7 cm. tall and 9,7 cm. wide.
Condition: Choice and intact with wear to the white glaze and extensive patination.
Ex. Old Danish Estate collection
Size: 11,7 cm. tall and 9,7 cm. wide.
Condition: Choice and intact with wear to the white glaze and extensive patination.
Ex. Old Danish Estate collection
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$95.00
$95.00
Two-finger amulet, Egypt, Late Period, 664 - 322 B.C.
The stylized amulet carved in grey-black stone.
Size: 21 mm. long.
Condition: Very fine, intact with minor wear and fine patination.
Two-finger amulets were used for the dead and were often found on the lower left of the torso. This is the area of the incision that was made during the mummification process in order to remove the internal organs. These amulets were meant magically to heal the wound...
The stylized amulet carved in grey-black stone.
Size: 21 mm. long.
Condition: Very fine, intact with minor wear and fine patination.
Two-finger amulets were used for the dead and were often found on the lower left of the torso. This is the area of the incision that was made during the mummification process in order to remove the internal organs. These amulets were meant magically to heal the wound...
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$395.00
$395.00
A finely polished and fully symethric Egyptian stone jar made of hard black stone, 3rd.-2nd. mill. BC.
The jar was used to hold cosmethics in the 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.
Size: 43 mm. wide and 35 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, fine quality jar.
Ex. Old European collection, Ex. Liveauctioners.
The jar was used to hold cosmethics in the 3rd.-2nd. millenium BC.
Size: 43 mm. wide and 35 mm. tall.
Condition: Good Very fine, fine quality jar.
Ex. Old European collection, Ex. Liveauctioners.
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$1,950.00
$1,950.00
A rare large inscribed heart scarab, Late Kingdom, after 660 BC.
The heart scarab carved in a redish type of sandstone or perhaps a type of red stoneware, glazed with an almost perfectly intact dark green gaze. Made as a somewhat cheaper alternative to the green basalt hardstone scarabs of the period. Finely inscribed on the base with 6 lines of hieroglyphs, tradionally with passages from the Book of Death, but untranslated by us.
Size: 56 mm...
The heart scarab carved in a redish type of sandstone or perhaps a type of red stoneware, glazed with an almost perfectly intact dark green gaze. Made as a somewhat cheaper alternative to the green basalt hardstone scarabs of the period. Finely inscribed on the base with 6 lines of hieroglyphs, tradionally with passages from the Book of Death, but untranslated by us.
Size: 56 mm...
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A nice wooden mummy mask of a smaller size, probably late period, mid-late 1st. millenium BC.
Size: 20,7 cm.
Condition: Intact with smaller losses and much wear. Remnants of pigments still visible on the surface in recesses.
Provenance: Old Bavarian collection from the 1930s and onwards.
Size: 20,7 cm.
Condition: Intact with smaller losses and much wear. Remnants of pigments still visible on the surface in recesses.
Provenance: Old Bavarian collection from the 1930s and onwards.
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$100.00
$100.00
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...
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...
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$250.00
$250.00
A nice Egyptian wooden painted figure of a Falcon, Late period, c. 660-332 BC.
Comes with a low lucite base, total 6,3 cm. tall. Old black ink number on the head.
Condition: Very fine for the material, smaller losses, preserved pigments.
Provenance: P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, 1980s collection.
Comes with a low lucite base, total 6,3 cm. tall. Old black ink number on the head.
Condition: Very fine for the material, smaller losses, preserved pigments.
Provenance: P. Treffz-Eichhöfer, Stuttgart, 1980s collection.
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$375.00
$375.00
Nice small collection of 7 miniature stone axes and tools, Egyptian, 4th. millenium BC.
A selection of different tools in greystone, diorite and perhaps jadeite, mainly small axe shapes for grinding spices and cosmetics.
A nice small selection of scarce neolithic tools from Egypt.
Sizes: 2,3 - 3,3 cm.
Condition: Intact, some with minor surface corrosion.
Ex Steen Stroemberg 1950-1977.
A selection of different tools in greystone, diorite and perhaps jadeite, mainly small axe shapes for grinding spices and cosmetics.
A nice small selection of scarce neolithic tools from Egypt.
Sizes: 2,3 - 3,3 cm.
Condition: Intact, some with minor surface corrosion.
Ex Steen Stroemberg 1950-1977.
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$95.00
$95.00
A wonderful symethric style scarab of stylized form, Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos Period, Dynasty 15th -17th...