- CHINESE TANG DYNASTY POLYCHROME HORSE
W/ TLEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 906 CE. A lovely mold-made pottery horse shown in stride atop an integral plinth. Painted in hues of apricot, peach, and chocolate...
[more like this] - 19TH C. CHINESE WOOD ACUPUNCTURE TEACHING
MODEL**Originally Listed At $2500**
East Asia, China, ca. 1860 to 1880 CE. A sizeable, carved wooden male model with black-painted inscriptions used to teach acupuncture...
[more like this] - INDIAN PETRIFIED BONE MIRROR HANDLE
- DANCERS, DWARF**Originally Listed At $700**
Ancient South Asia, eastern India, Bengal, Chandraketugarh, ca. 200 BCE to 100 BCE. A lovely intricately hand-carved mirror...
[more like this] - ASSYRIAN POTTERY FIGURE - STANDING APKALLU,
TL TESTEDAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Assyrian Empire, ca. 2025 to 1378 BCE. An impressive, mold-made pottery relief of a standing male genius or apkallu - an ancient...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED MESOPOTAMIAN GLAZED HEAD -
GYPSUM & BITUMENAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Kassite period, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. Staring past the confine of time, a head depicting a haunting guise carved in...
[more like this] - 9 MINIATURE HITTITE, LURISTAN, & ROMAN
BRONZE FIGURINES...Ancient Near East, The Levant, Hittite culture, ca. first half of the 2nd millennium BCE; northwestern Iran and northeastern Turkey, Luristan, ca. 1000...
[more like this] - TALL GUERRERO MEZCALA STONE TYPE M-14
FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. This is an incredible, abstract standing anthropomorphic figure of a large size,...
[more like this] - FOSSILIZED SIBERIAN WOOLLY RHINOCEROS
SKULLCentral Asia, Siberia, Pleistocene, ca. 2.58 million to 12,000 years ago. A rare and striking skull from one of the most famous beasts of the last Ice Age - the Woolly...
[more like this] - BEAUTIFUL CHINESE HAN DYNASTY BLACKWARE
AMPHORA W/ TLEast Asia, Western China, Han Dynasty, ca. 2nd century BCE. An impressive, dark-gray earthenware amphora of a remarkably distinctive form. Panels of incised linear...
[more like this] - 6TH C. BYZANTINE MARBLE RELIEF - PEACOCKS
& FOUNTAIN**This is an oversized piece that may require special shipping. Please inquire for a quote prior to bidding.
Near East, late Roman / Byzantine Period, ca. 6th century...
[more like this] - INSCRIBED PALMYRAN MARBLE RELIEF W/
BANQUETERNear East / Holy Land, Palmyra, Roman Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. An impressive Palmyran funerary relief, hand-carved from creamy white marble to depict a...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF STELE - MOTHER,
CHILD, LION, & BULL...Roman, Eastern Empire, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. An exemplary marble relief stele displaying 2 diverse scenes: one of a mother and...
[more like this] - OVER-LIFESIZE ROMAN BASALT HEAD OF SERAPIS**This
is an oversized piece that may require special shipping. Please inquire for a quote prior to bidding.
Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A finely sculpted...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED / EXHIBITED ROMAN MARBLE TORSO
OF NUDE YOUTHRoman, Imperial, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A finely carved marble torso of a youth with an appropriately fleshy body, nude save the fascinating cord of amulets...
[more like this] - ANCIENT SYRO-HITTITE POTTERY STANDING
IDOL, TL TESTEDAncient Near East, The Levant, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 1100 to 500 BCE. An enticing, hand-built pottery idol, likely of Astarte - known as Ishtar in parts...
[more like this] - ACHAEMENID BRONZE FINIAL WITH RAMSAncient
Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A lovely bronze finial of a ceremonial staff, comprised of 2 rams or goats propped up on a central column that rises...
[more like this] - ROMAN GLASS DOUBLE UNGUENTARIUM W/ COBALT
HANDLERoman, Imperial Period, ca. 4th century CE. A stunning, free-blown glass double unguentarium comprised of a conjoined pair of tubular chambers with folded rims - both...
[more like this] - GUERRERO MEZCALA GREENSTONE TYPE M-22
AXE GOD FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 400 to 100 BCE. A large and pretty example of a hand-carved greenstone axe god of the Type...
[more like this] - ANCIENT ANATOLIAN POTTERY ABSTRACT HEAD,
TL TESTEDNear East, Turkey, Anatolia, Neolithic / Chalcolithic, ca. 5500 to 4300 BCE. A wonderful and rare hand-built pottery head with an elongated brow, impressed narrowed...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM WOOD STRIDING
MALE FIGUREAncient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 11th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 2130 to 1649 BCE. A wonderful example of a hand-carved wooden male figure, perhaps a servant in a tomb...
[more like this] - ANCIENT SOUTH ARABIAN LEADED COPPER
CAMEL**Originally Listed At $400**
Ancient South Arabia, Yemen, ca. early first millennium BCE. A cast leaded-copper statuette of a camel with an erect head and neck, a slight...
[more like this] - RARE SAKA SCYTHIAN IRON HORSE CHANFRON
HEAD ARMOR PLATE...Central Asia and Siberia, Scythian Empire, Saka people, ca. 8th to 2nd century BCE. An extremely rare example of iron horse armor with superb preservation!...
[more like this] - STUNNINGLY IRIDESCENT ROMAN GLASS FLASKRoman,
Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A dazzling flask free blown from translucent blue green glass that has acquired a breathtaking iridescence of lustrous silver,...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF TROPAEUM FRAGMENT,
CUIRASS & SHIELD...Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2ndto 3rd century CE. An exceptional marble relief fragment of a tropaeum or trophy monument depicting the spoils of war with...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED / EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE VENUS
W/ SILVER EYES...Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A stunning leaded bronze figure of Venus (Greek Aphrodite), the goddess of love and beauty, enveloped in...
[more like this] - ROMANO-EGYPTIAN CARTONNAGE MUMMY MASK,
EX-CHRISTIE'SIt's not often we start a listing by stating the provenance, but in this case the pedigree is almost as impressive as the piece. Sold - Christies, December 1996;...
[more like this] - RARE EGYPTIAN STRIDING IBIS BRONZE /
COBALT BLUE GLASSEgypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. An extremely rare example of a majestic ibis exhibiting a body shaped from solid glass in an opaque, cobalt-blue...
[more like this] - 11TH C. INDIAN RAJASTHAN SANDSTONE RELIEF
OF A JINASouth Asia, India, India, Rajasthan, ca. 11th to 12th century CE. A fabulous sandstone panel, meticulously hand-sculpted with the high relief scene of a Jain Tirthankara...
[more like this] - LARGE / EXPRESSIVE ROMAN MARBLE SPOUT
- LION HEAD FORMRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd century CE. A finely carved marble lion-headed spout, likely from an ancient fountain, with wonderful deep drilling characteristic...
[more like this] - GREEK ATTIC RED-FIGURE STEMMED KYLIX
W/ EPHEBESAncient Greece, Athens, ca. 500 to 480 BCE. A beautiful pottery kylix, expertly hand-painted with images of ephebes or Greek youths in red-figure technique. Boasting...
[more like this] - CHINESE TANG POTTERY LOKAPALA W/ SANCAI
GLAZE, TL'DEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A fantastical mold-formed pottery guardian figure known as a lokapala with a serious expression wearing elaborate...
[more like this] - EXHIBITED ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF VENUS,
EX-SOTHEBY'SRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A stunning leaded bronze figure of Venus (Greek Aphrodite), the goddess of love and beauty, resembling Praxiteles...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED THRACIAN SILVER DIADEM, EX-ROYAL
ATHENAEastern Greek / Thracian, ca. 4th century BCE. Finely hammered and modeled in repousse, a beautiful diadem or plaquette comprised of a copper silver alloy and presenting...
[more like this] - SUPERB PERSIAN ACHAEMENID 23K+ GOLD
LION APPLIQUES**Originally Listed At $5000**
Near East, Iran, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 6th to 4th century BCE. A pair of 99% gold (equivalent to 23K+ to 24K) applique ornaments...
[more like this] - 19TH C. CHINESE QING SCHOLAR'S STONE
OF PETRIFIED WOOD**Originally Listed At $1500**
East Asia, China, China, Qing Dynasty, ca. 19th century CE. A fine "gongshi" also known as a scholar's stone that is actually...
[more like this] - Ancient Chinese style standing speckled
hard stone figure holding ram's head; overall excellent condition, age wear, surface wear, surface soiling, surface scratch on headdress; L 4" W 4" H 12 1/4" (Approx.)...
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