Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (538)

A large and thus rare Cuprite bronze or copper dagger, Mesopotamia, Copper Age, early-mid 3rd. millenium BC.

The dagger of the Type 1 design, cut out or hammered sheet with a small tang.

Size: 28,9 cm. long and 5,2 cm. wide over the blade!

Condition: Superb, fine brown and green patina with earthern highlights, uncleaned.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection

A completely intact flaked danish neolithic axe, dating to 3rd-2nd mill BC. The axe has a convex, perfectly shaped cutting, edge and straight parallel sides which taper to a squared off butt end.

The axed measure 135 mm. Each face of the object has been worked with flaking - a very skillfull job!

The flaked sides taper evenly towards the butt end.

The axe has a beautyful mottled greyish white and beige patina and is in nearly superb condition...

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.

A fine matching pair of nicely decorated Indus Valley pottery jars, dating to c. 3rd mill. BC. Probably Mehrgarh-civilisation.

The jars of a vase form small round base, painted zoomorphic motif of a lions and multible fishes.

Size: 12-13 cm. tall each.

Condition: Nice lot, the fish jar is completely intact, the lion jar has a repaired crack, some typical wear to the decoration.

Ex. Danish Private collection.

High quality Levantine Pyramidal stamp seal, Neo-Hittite kingdoms, ca. 10th.-8th. century BC.

The seal is carved in a very attractive and unusual semiprecious stone, it looks a bit like Jade / Nephrite and is very hard. Stone glossy, and mottled green with lighter inclusions.

The seal itself engraved with a fine winged Bull, likely Tilla which is a bull-god in the Hurrian and Hittite pantheons, the attendant and mount of the weather god Teshub...

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.

A very rare and quite amazing amulet in dark blue almost black glass, late period, 2nd. part of the 1st. millenium BC.

The amulet shaped as a the Djet pillar in a rather crude execution in this very rarely seen and difficult medium in Egypt.

Size: 62 mm. tall and 2,7 mm. wide

Provenance: Jytte Soelberg Private Collection, bought in the 1970-1980 from much older collection of a Danish Engineer, traveling in Egypt in the 1960s.

A superb quality Islamic bowl, Islamic, 12th century A.D. (494 AH – 597 AH). Central Asia - Bamiyan.

Pearly white glaze with Sgraffito decoration (relief), pottery bowl with flaring body rising from a short foot. The sides decorated with a beautiful Sgraffito pattern of ovals and center and rim decorated with splashes of brown.

Condition: Choice. Almost perfectly intact and with fine grazing and inherent iridescence.

Size: 9 cm. wide and approx 4,2 cm...

A larger unpolished neolithic axe, dating to 3rd.4th mill. BC

The axe unpolished with a broad blade and some nice carving (knapping) details, incl, finely worked edges.

Size: 172 mm.

Condition: Choice, minor roughness to the edges. Wonderfull vivid mottled brown patina.



Important:
This item comes with a standard export license issued by Danish Ministry of Culture, when shipped outside Denmark...

Superb scarab dating to the Second Intermediate Period, 1786-1567 BC.

A well-composed piece with symethric spirals all around an ankh or heart.

This scarab is superb for style and execution and at the same time it's finely patinated and preserved.

Size: 19 mm.

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

A rare and very interesting Egyptian stone Phallic pendant, likely dating to the Late Period - Roman period, later 1st. millenium BC.

Phallic shape and finely polished in a hard black stone, perhaps Serpentinite. A lock or loop for wearing this a pendant on top.

Size: 39 mm.

Condition: Superb!

Provenance: Jytte Soelberg Private Collection, bought in the 1970-1980 from much older collection of a Danish Engineer, travelling in Egypt in the 1960s.

Scarce and beautiful early type of pottery Oil lamp, Roman 1st. century AD. The lamp is of the Loeschcke Typus VIII and displays a standing Cupid, playing a flute on the discus. Finely stamped with 'the foot' workshop mark, well known workshop, central Rome, 1st. cent. AD

Size: 9 cm.

Condition:Choice, some wear to handle and decoration, but intact.

Provenance: From a Rheinland-Pfalz collection, 1970-1999.

An late renaissance or baroque period Iron Padlock, European, ca. 16th.-17th. century.

Cast and wrought lock. Very beautiful with an arched moveable part and a keyhole at one end. The lock was cobber braized or plated in the renaissance manor and much cobber can still be spotted in parts of the surface (see pictures).

Size: 13,5 cm. long and around 7 cm. high.

Provenance: Birgit og Bent Wolstrup Collection

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 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.

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 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.

An choice relief carved pottery bowl, Islamic, Seljuq Period, likely from Kashan or Transoxiana, 11th.-12th. century AD.

A splendid bowl with carved relief elements around the fan. The glaze cream - very vivid and beautiful Islamic bowl.

Size: 161 mm. x 90 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Choice for type, basically the original surface, a few restored cracks, with only joint-areas retouched. Finely patinated!