Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (548)

An exceptional and rare collection of layered Agate beads, stringed as a Necklace, Greco-persian period, Western Asia, 500-200 BC.

The necklace strung with a large number of beautiful agate beads, each very precious and with a larger central hanger. Very colourful and wearable.

Length: ca. 48-49 cm. in a single row, 24 cm. in a double row.

Condition: Choice, only one bead with a chip, othervise a perfect selection...

Spendid stamp seal, carved in fine translucent and slightly bluish Calchedon, Neo-Babylonian, 7th.-6th. century BC.

A hardstone stamp seal with design depicting Ishtar, standing between two cross symbols looking like daggers, crescent above.

Size: 24,5 mm.

Condition: Superb.

Ex. German Collection (Berlin), collected from the 1980s and onwards.

Comes with collectors own notes and photos along with a hard wax impression.

An exceptional quality large Almandine Lion pendant set in an authentic Almandine necklace, 1st. millenium BC.

The amulet / pendant is surely from the Achaemenid Empire, approx 8th.-6th. century BC.

Secured with a later collar of gold granulation, within a restrung necklace of garnet beads with spherical carnelian ends; modern clasp...

A superb Kylix, Magna Graecia, South Italic, ca. 350 BC.

The Kylix is a very large wine cup. This fine stemmed black glazed kylix is of a highly attractive form with a raised stem, and a pair of gently sweeping loop handles, the wide shallow body with a corseted shoulder and slightly flaring rim. The glace with beautiful patina leaving a silverish and rainbow gloss!

Diameter: c. 20 cm. incl...

Very large and impressive decorated bronze bowl, dating to the period of Abbasid dominance, 7th.-9th. AD.

This bowl belongs to the interesting group of metal vessels which were made of high tin, or white bronze, in Persian sefîd rûy or in Arabic nuhâs abyad, an alloy of copper and zinc from around the 7th. cent and onwards.

This bowl is very large and possibly a food bowl with incised circles and a punched decoration in the center.

Size: 200-210 x 70 mm...

RARE AND ATTRACTIVE POTTERY BOWL, WESTERN-CENTRAL ASIA, LIKELY TRANOXIANA, 10TH-11TH. CENTURY AD.
A beautiful bowl decorated with three fishes and symbols in red and black lines on cream ground, so that looks like the fishes are swimming around inside the bowl.

Size: ca 180 mm. wide and c. 70 mm. deep.

Condition: Nice condition for type, some resoration, but it looks unrestored, nicely done.

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SCARCE STEATITE STONE SCARAB, ENGRAVED WITH THE DOUBLE CARTOUCHE OF THUTMOSE III, NEW KINGDOM, Thutmose III, ruled 1479-1425 BC

Nice larger scarab with detailed Hieroglyphs for thutmose III / Thutmosis III, interesting with the two Cartouches and the double Ureaus. Comes with hard impression.

Size: c. 22 mm. long, longitudially pierced.

Condition: Nice, smaller loss to the lower bottom surface.

Ex. Swedish Private collection

interesting and beautiful scarab with a Royal or private name of an important person, during New Kingdom, between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC.

The scarab very attractive, naturalistic with finely defined details and superb preserved glaze.

The inscription looks like a name to us, though we can't decifer it.

Size: 18 mm.

Condition: Choice, minor chip around the hole at the back underside, uncleaned with hard sand in the devices...