Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (1251)

Beautiful pottery dish with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern, Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.

The Dish in an almost untouched state with surface and beautiful colours.

Size: 17,4 x 4 cm. - c. 7 inches.

Condition: Choice and intact, a few places of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice dish.

Ex. Important Danish Private Collection

Lot of mainly very early stone- and bronzeage amulets and seals Mesopotamia - dating 7th.-1th. mill. BC

These are all from the Gustav Oberländer and comes with his ID-Cards included in the sale.

Interesting group including some very early Pre-Halaf amulets to later amulets 7th.-1th. mill. BC.

Size: The largest amulet in Jet-Black stone is 35 mm...

A puzzling piece made in patinated bronze or silver. The alloy is very white, so it could be silver too. Luristan, 1st. millenium BC. The piece is perhaps a horsebit or horse-equipment. It's decorated with two rams heads on each side of a long pole that has two bases.

Size: 12,8 cm. long and 5,5 cm. high. ca. 102 grams

Ex. North German Private Collection from the 1970s-1980s.

Very interesting Roman pottery oil lamp with a Roman empress or high born lady on the discus, ca. mid 2nd. century AD.

The lamp can be dated quite accurately since the hairstyle of the lady is from the period of Hadrian-Antoninus Pius, so no later than 170 AD.

Size: 12 cm. a large and quite massive lamp.

Condition: Very nice and intact, with traces of corrosion.

Ex. Collection of M. Victor Dumas, France, aquired before 1920.

A nearly superb Islamic Sgraffito pottery bowl, Bamiyan, c. 12th cent AD.

Nice earthenware bowl with incised decorations in the interior. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors in splashy designs.

Of rounded form with flaring sides and upright rim.

Size: 16,5 x 9 cm.

Condition: Nearly superb for type and age. Intact with a few old chips to rim and exterior...

A large and beautiful dark green patinated tanged bronze short sword from Ancient Near East dating to the early 1st. mill BC. Commonly termed 'Luristani' by dealers and collectors.

An elaborate and cast sword blade in a quite broad design. Round shoulders and two prominent central midribs running in the full length of the blade.

Size is c. 37,4 cm.

Condition: Choice - some roughness to the edges. The patina is nice and smooth, dark green.

Ex...

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.

A fantastic and exceptional thick and heavy ancient silver bracelet, Uratian-Achaemenid period, dating 800-500 BC.

A heavy silver armring evolving into a huge spiral, very complicated and beautiful silverwork for the period.

Size: ca. 8 cm. tall and 3 cm. thick at the max...

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 very fine pottery bowl with nice simple design, Islamic Samenid Dynasty, ca. 9th.-10th. century.

A larger conical bowl decorated on the rim with ornamentation in green red and black, all on a cream-white ground glaze.

Size: 25,3 cm. wide and ca. 9 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice! Much original crackled glaze, very honest bowl, restoration of a few larger fragments with some repaint of joint areas, wear and patina to the glaze...

A larger cylinder seal carved in a fine redish-orange stone, Middle Assyrian, provincial, later 2nd. millennium BC.

A sharp seal showing a bowman aiming at a horned animal and another animal behind, perhaps a Lion, in the fields the symbols of the Sun and Moon for the ruling deity, Ashur and his servant on planet earth the Assyrian king...

A very large unguentarium made of slightly green clear glass Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.

The bottle of impressive height and with broad base and tappering neck, sound glass.

Size: c. 17,5 cm. tall and 8,7 cm. in diameter at the base!

Condition: Extremely fine, sound almost clear glass vessel with beautiful silverish and rainbow irridescence and deposits inside.

Provenance: Formerly in the property of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)

A large and rare tablet stamp seal engraved with a depiction of temple-doors on each side, Levantine, Pre-Canaanite lands, Late 3rd. mill. BC.

The engravings on this nice rectangular seal in white calcite, was interpreted as being temple doors by the former owner, in any case a fine complicated image for the period. Special stone and rare for the culture.

Size: 40 mm. x 31 mm. c. 8 mm...

Highly interesting scaraboid seal of the earliest style and type we've seen, probably inspired by Egyptian scarab seals, Middle bronze age of the Levant, c. 2200-1600 BC.

The seal is very large and carved in a greenish black stone. Interestingly, there's remnants of the metal mount, probably a chain in iron or bronze (looks like iron!). The seal is carved with Capride with a bird above.

Condition: Nice VF, evidently with some beautiful wear and patina!

Size: 27...

A very large stamp seal in green-black stone depicting a horned animal, Anatolia 4th.-3rd. millenium BC.

A late Gable seal type with an advanced rendering of the animal, that shows the Pre-Hittite or old hittite style. The large seal plate also leaves for the long tail and a crescent above.

Size: 45 mm. long and 33 mm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very Fine, with moderate ancient wear to the corners. Very attractive in hand.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (19...

An ancient-medieval bronze bowl of the high tin content 'white bronze' type with engravings of the Gaznavids, dating to c. 10th-11th. century AD.

A massive bowl and perhaps our finest, likely a food bowl for really large parties. The interior of the bowl is almost completely covered with fine green patina and when cleaned would likely reveal fine design of incised patterns exterior with a lovely star-shaped engraving, pluse hexagons, concenthric circles and finely the attractive bulls...

Attractive and rare type of glass vase, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.

The flask in almost clear glass with beautiful thin irridescence!

Size: 12,2 cm.

Condition: Very fine and intact, some fragments reassembled nicely, but intact, nothing missing.

Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.

A deeply engraved cylinder seal in beige stone, depicting the 4-winged Pazuzu as the Master of Animals, between winged erect bulls. Neo-Assyrian period, c. 9th.-7th. cent. BC.

Height: 2 cm, ø 1cm.

Condition: Nice Very fine, very sharp with small chip below.

Ex. Private Collection of Karl Müller, 1950-1977. Comes with hard imprint and COA.