Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (563)

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

A fine larger bowl decorated with elements in bright green and black on a white ground. A Swastika in the center, Ghazanavid Dynasty of Western Asia, 11th.-12th. century.

Size: 235 mm. wide and 85 mm. deep.

Condition: Choice, a restored section of the wall, but othervise in original untouched condition, thus rare.

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

A beautiful bowl decorated with stylized element in different shades of green and brown line.

Size: ca 192 mm. wide and 73 mm. deep.

Condition: Choice condition for type with some restoration, nicely done. Fine and original glossy glace overall.

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

A fine bowl decorated with Torquise glace on a cream ground - Very attractive. Tranoxiana, Samanid Dynasty style, 10th.-11th. century AD

Size: ca 174 mm. wide and 70 mm. deep.

Condition: Choice, area of restoration but with much original glace overall. Wonderful iridiscent shine to the surface and a lot of fine crackles!

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

A rare & choice Islamic / Seljuq pottery dish dating to 11th-12th cent AD.

The bowl is in choice condition - intact but with some restoration and a few dents to the glaze.

The dish measure 15,5 x 3,8 cm - 6,2 x 1,5 inches and has a beautiful torquise / blue glaze.

The bowl is in choice condition - intact but there could be some slight restoration and a few dents to the glaze.

Ex. Danish Private collection.

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

A rare & choice islamic pottery dish dating to 11th-12th cent AD.

The dish measure 146 x 30 mm and has a beautiful torquise / blue glase.

The bowl is in choice condition - intact but with some restoration and a few dents to the glaze.

A carved pattern of floral petals on the side of the interior.

A nice and interesting cylinder seal in green stone from Mesopotamia, 2nd. millenium BC.

The seal depicts two figures by an alter, one is holding an offer vessel.

Size: 17 mm.

Condition: Choice

A very interesting Islamic pottery bowl dating to around 1100-1200 AD, likely from Kashan or further east of Seljuq Empire.

The vessel is immitating the metal bowls from the period, with very steep walls and a turned over rim. Nicely glazed in beige and green colors and an interesting carved design with lines and dots on the exterior.

Size is 11 x 4 cm - 4,3 x 1,6 inches.

Condition: Choice for type with a hairline break restored, with much original glaze...

A rare & choice islamic glazed pottery bowl dating to 10th-12th cent AD.

The bowl has a pseudo-calligraphical design at the center of the interior. The top-glaze is somewhat worn but in a nice greenish white color.

The bowl measure 113x55 mm.

A choice pottery bowl, Islamic, 10th-11th century.

The bowl with green and brown glaze with a Pseudo-Caligraphic pattern.

Size is 113 x 57 mm.

Condition: Choice, typical repair of one fracture, but sound and with original surfaces

A smaller Islamic pottery bowl decorated with a black line and a green star on a white ground, Western Asia 11th.-12th. century.

Size: 12cm. wide

Condition: Superb! No restoration and finely preserved glaze.

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

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

This rare bowl originates from the eastern part of the ancient Samanida Empire, around the Bamiyan region. It bears an incised ‘Sgraffiato’ geometric and floral pattern with a yellow and green glazed body

Size: ca 113 mm. wide and 45 mm. deep...

A choice glazed pottery bowl, Islamic, Seljuq Period, likely from Kashan or Transoxiana, 11th.-12th. century AD.

A splendid bowl with creamy glaze and and blue / green decorations. High, thin walls on a narrow base.

Most of the exterior also covered by a thick, beige glaze

Very vivid and beautiful Islamic bowl.

Size: 18,5 x 8 cm - .7,3 x 3,15 inches.

Condition: Choice for type, Intact w. minimal restoration...

An elaborate renaissance Iron key, for a heavy door or a large chest, 16th. century AD.

The key of very solid design with a heavy shaft with wide collars and a large discus in the center of the bow.

Size: 14 cm and weighing nearly 86 grams.

Condition: Superb and intact with sound metal.

A fine bowl decorated with brown stylized caligraphy on a cream ground. Tranoxiana, early Samanid Dynasty style, late 9th. century-early 10th. century AD.

Size: ca 130 mm. wide and 50 mm. deep.

Condition: Nice, some light restoration with much original glace left.

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

A beautyful Bamiyan splashed sgraffiato dish, c. 1100-1200 AD.

The dish has a thick green & white glaze, the inside surface incised with simple ornamentations.

Condition: Choice! The dish is intact and with the original, completely un-restored, glaze. Boobles and flaws are from the making and there's a few minor ancient dents.

A rare islamic pottery bowl, Nishapur or Tranoxiana, dating to ca. 10th. century AD.

The bowl with beige-white glace, the bottom of the interior is decorated with a Cufic calligraphy.

Size: 14 x 5,3 cm.

Condition: Choice for type, restoration of a few breaks, with joint sections retouched - the Caligraphy original!

Ex. Preben Kristiansen Collection (aquired in the 1990s at auctions).

A fine seal made in blue glass, made to look like Lapis Lazuli, Neo-Babylonian, likely provincial, 8th.-6th. century BC.

The seal engraved with a typical motif for the period: the great King or Hero fighting a Lion holding a sword.

Size: 19 mm.

Condition: Choice and basicall intact with a few minor chips to the sides.

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