Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (569)

A fine Coptic Tunic Insertion, Egypt 4th to 6th century AD.

The weaving showing a running rabit. Mounted behind glass in a black frame, so it's ready to display and very attractive.

Size: 12 cm. high and 10,7 cm. wide for the weaving, the frame is 21 cm. x 16 cm.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, comes with provenance.

RARE POTTERY DISH, CENTRAL-WESTERN ASIA, CA. 11TH. CENTURY AD.

Size: This dish measure 16,5 cm. wide.

A beautifuly made dish, decorated with a star-shaped decoration with 6 rays, done in black and white on a red ground.

Condition: Choice, very minor restoration to the rim at one point, othervise nice with complete and original glace.

Ex. Copenhagen Dealers collection, aquired over a period 20 years.

A superb rare bracelet, Luristan, 800-600 BC

The bracelet made for a man and perhaps a warrior, thick goat head terminals and the bracelet itself decorated with lines and spikes or knobs.

Size: 75 cm. wide. Weight ca. 81 grams

Condition: Heavy red and green patina and uncleaned.

Ex. Johan Dæhnfeldt collection

A finely made smaller bronze jar or wine cup, dating to the Achaemenid Dynasty of Western Asia, 7th.-4th. BC.

A beautifully patinated jar in vase shaoe, with nice concenthric lines.

Size: 85 mm. wide and 75 mm. high.

Condition: Choice for type with fine patina and encrustations. Completely intact and of sound metal.

Ex. Danish Private Collection

A high quality Egyptian textile, Coptic culture under late Roman Empire, 4th.-6th. century AD.

A very accomlished and complicated weaving of this Tunic insertion. Mounted in a collector display case so that's portable and easy to present.

Size: 10,6 cm. high and 9,5 cm. wide for the weaving it self, the frame is 45 cm. x 34 cm.

Ex. Danish Private Collection, comes with provenance.

A scarce early Roman lamp of the Loeschcke IV type, decorated with Amor and name of workshop or maker. Dark brown slip. Dating 2nd. century A.D.

An interesting and beautiful simple lamp with a fine depiction of Eros or Amor on the discus.

Size: 98 mm.

Condition: Choice, minimal chip to the back, othervise perfect.

Ex Hôtel Drouot, Paris, formerly in a French Private Collection, ca. 1970.

Decorative figurine Cock, Later Period to Ptolemaic Period, Dynasty 26 or later (664–30 BC).

A nice, well-modelled bronze figurine, which capture the essense of the animal, attachment loop at the back.

Size:ca. 50 mm. long and weighing 44 grams.

Ex. Dr. Lammers, Hamburg, aquired prior to 1966.

A large and impressive bronze seal with Zoomorphic handle in the shape of two bird heads, early 1st. mill. BC.

The seal large - 4 cm. tall and weighing 41,6 grams. It's cast with two heads and a loop between them. The seal being round and engraved with a Sun or star symbol.

Condition: Choice, exceptional red and green patina, but can be further cleaned with good result.

Ex. Collection of Dr. Grözinger, Germany, before 1962.

FINE POTTERY BOWL WITH GREEN AND BROWN DECORATIONS, WESTERN-CENTRAL ASIA, 10TH-11TH. CENTURY AD.

A beautiful bowl decorated with stylized caligraphic element on a white ground.

Size: ca 180 mm. wide and 65 mm. deep.

Condition: In very nice condition for type with original glaze, a few cracks gently restored and and almost invisible.

Ex. Johan Dæhnfeldt Estate, aquired at auction in Copenhagen in the 1990s.

A beautiful decorated Islamic bronze belt plaque, 10th.-12th. cent.

The belt plque round decorated with and extremely fine infinity symbol, very complicated and attractive. Likely Persian from Khorasan.

Size: 47 mm.

Condition: Superb, fine brownish patina, very sharp.

Ex. Important Danish Private Collection, bought in the Ancient Near East in the 1950s-1960s.

A scarce terracotta oillamp with a Raven, dating to the 1st. century AD.

The lamp of the type Loeschcke I B with fine brown pigments. The bird in very high relief. Beautiful early type.

Size: 95 mm.

From a Berlin private collection, bought in 1990s.

Interesting and superb Viking bronze ring of the Shield type, made for a warrior, ca. 9th.-10th. century AD.
Hammered from a sheet of bronze, this ring has the shape of a large rounded shield with a finely engraved pattern.

A rare larger ring made for a Man and likely a Warrior. A rarity both for the elaborate style and the exceptional condition for this bronze antiquity.

Size: ca. 20 mm. in inner diameter and and ca. 33-34 mm...

A rare bone carving of a standing man with long beard and fine dress, Sumerian, 3rd. millenium BC.

The carving very sensitively done with fine archaic style details.Old collectors number on the reverse.

Size: 45-46 mm. high.

Condition: Choice and basically intact. Some corrosion on the back and contact-marks. Ex European Private Collection, Hirsch sale 2013.

Fine ancient Agate Stamp seal, Persian, datin g to the 1st. mill. BC!

The seal finely polished and attractive in an agate stone, engraved with a ram and birds, and pierced for attachment to a string.

Size: ca. 14 mm.

Ex. Egeskov collection.

A choice and beautiful larger Torquise Faiance seal, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 16th.-11th. century BC.

The seal is engraved on both sides with Hieroglyphs and in a particularly fine torquise colour faiance.

Size: 21 mm. long.

Condition: Superb for type, intact glace.

Ex. Dr. Lammers, Hamburg, aquired prior to 1966.

Rare and interesting pottery head of a Nubian, Egypt, late 1st. millenium BC.

The head with features of an African man, made in the Late to Greek Period, ca. 3th.-1st. century BC.

Size: 6 cm. tall

Condition: Fragmentary but with head finely preserved and uncleaned.

Ex. Dr. Lammers, Hamburg, aquired prior to 1966.

Finely shaped vessel, hemispheric body, a short neck and turned-over rim and foot ring.

Condition: Superb, finely preserved sound glass and with a wonderful blue silver and rainbow iridescence.

Size: ca. 7,5 cm. tall.

Ex. German Art Collection, Rheinland-Pfalz, 1970-1999

A fine larger greenstone rectangular seal, Hittite Empire, ca. 16TH - 12TH century BC.

An impressive seal with the image of a large Tree on one side and ancient Luwian or related text on the other side. Pierced for suspension.

Size: ca. 25 mm. long and 20 mm. wide and 14 mm. thick.

Ex R.T. Private collection, since 1958 in Münich, Germany.