Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World (1223)

An very nice earthenware bowl with incised decorations withfloral petals in the center. Beige/white underglaze with green and brown decorative colors in splash design. Bamiyan, c. 12th. century.

High, wide walls on narrow base. Remnants of rim from another bowl in the kiln on the side.

Size: 13,7 x 6,4 cm.

Condition: Choice with fine glaze, hairline crack on the side and a chip to the rim. Smaller losses of glaze...

The large seal of the hemispheric form and probably Parthian or early Sasanian, so like 0-500 AD, could be earlier though.

Done in a fantastic stone type - black with a spiders web of lighter colours. Attractive in hand. The shape of this stamp seal was probably invented by the Neo-Babylonians and continuued to be made in the near east until the end of the Sasanian period. The base is engraved with an unidentified cruciform symbol.

Size: c. 22 mm. wide...

A rare bone seal with a finely carved base, Western Mesopotamia, dating to the 4th.-3rd. mill. BC.

The seal in the rectangular gable form, carved with with two animals in the base.

Size: 25 mm...

A quite rare stamp seal of a type with a large engraved in the base and a smaller seal engraving of the top of the high handle, Eastern Anatolia / Western Mesopotamia, Pre-halaf-Halaf period, c. 6th. mill. BC.

A rare stoneage seal and finely carved and polished.

Size: 24 mm. long and 15 mm...

A rarely seen scaraboid stamp seal, carved in Onyx stone, Assyrian, ca. 12th. century BC.

Attractive stamp seal carved with the scetchy image of a bull, scarab-shape after Egyptian model of the New Kingdom.

Size: 11 mm.

Condition: Choice, light chips around the horisontical piercing as usual othervise perfect.

Ex. Austrian private Collection, ca. 1970.

Interesting early stamp seal in serpentine stone, dating to the late neolithic period of Western Mesopotamia, c. 6th. mill. BC.

Finding place: Ebene at the Orontes.

The almost square seal carved with a grit-pattern and with a low worn handle on the back, finely polished.

Size: c. 31-29 mm...

Seal seal carved like a fruit or a flower pot and on the base an engraved cross, loop at the top. carved in brownish stone, finely polished. Western Mesopotamia, probably 4th.-3rd. mill. BC

Size: 25 mm...

Choice intact Lion Amulet, New Kingdom-late period, 1070-330 BC.

Depicting a crouching lion with large mane in torquise faiance. Superbly detailed for the type.

Size: 26 x 19 mm. long.

Ex Old 1960's-1970s private collection

A finely detailed faiance figure, depicting Patake in Green-Torquise faiance, Late period Egypt, 525 - 341 BC.

Interesting scarce representation of the god naked.

Size: 33 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice, intact with some overall wear to the glaze.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection.

A fine depiction of a Jackal on a larger amulet, probably from the The 26th Dynasty / Saite Period, 664 BC to 525 BC.

In light green faiance finely detailed on one side only as is typical for these.

Size: 26 mm. long.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact.

Ex Old 1960's-1970s private collection

A very attractive Byzantine or darkage bronze chest key approx 6th.-9th. century AD.

The key is finely made with a round bow and square decoration to the hollow stem.

Size: 75 mm. long.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb with even green patina. A condition rarity as such.

Ex. Important old Danish collection of keys.

A rectagular bifacial stamp seal with a large handle in a black serpentine stone. The seal is carved with an impression of an animal in the handle as well as a larger depiction in the base of a deity standing on the back of a four-legged animal. Unidentified objects on either side of the deity, perhaps symbolizing weapons...

A fine condition larger scaraboid stamp seal, Middle Assyrian Empire, c. 1400-1100 BC.

The seal engraved with an interesting zoomorphic Griffin like creature with.

The seal is carved and highly polished to it's scaraboid shape in a fine greenish black stone.

Size: 21 mm. long and 18 mm wide, 12 mm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, atttractive!.

Comes with hard impression and ID card from below collection.

Provenance: Gustav Oberl...

An attractive unpolished, thinbladed Danish neolithic axe dating to late 4th-early 3rd mill BC.

Very nicely knapping details on the sides and old collection tag - Found at Mols, Jylland.

Size: c. 17,4 cm. in length.

Condition: Good VF, choice axe with a lovely brown patina. a few minor chips.

Provenance: Castle Gardener Peder Søren Petersen (1882–1964). Mainly found between WWI and WWII at Sværdborg mose (eng. marsh) and Køng mose at Southern Z...

A choice Ancient Near East / Luristani tanged bronze dagger, dating to 2nd-1st mill BC.

A nice bronze dagger with rounded shoulders. Size is 30 cm - c. 12 inches.

Condition: Choice with some roughness to the edges.

Ex. Danish Private Collection.

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 finely grooved and scarce Danish macehead in granite, Single Grave period, 3rd. millenium BC.

The artifact is polished to a symethric compressed oval form with a deep groove in the center. These were made by the singlegrave culture and was used as a weapon alongside the battle axes from this culture.

Size: 83 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice, with fine patina and undamaged.

Ex. Private Collection.

*** This item comes with a standard export lice...

A lovely intact late neolithic period stamp seal, found in West Mesopotamia and dating around the 4th. mill. BC.

Hemispheric stamp seal with a low handle and a fine high-relief carving of a sun-symbol in the base - attractive!

Size: 25 mm. in diameter and 11 mm. tall.

Condition: Near Extremely fine, choice and with fine patina.

This seal was aquired 2008 and comes with hard impression and original ID-card from below collection.

Provenance: G...