- VERY RARE PAIR OF GRAEME PARK PHILADELPHIA
QUEEN ANNE C...1740-1760, each with scrolled and shell carved crest over a figured splat with four scrolled volutes, set on shell carved legs with trifid feet, upholstered...
[more like this] - Three 'Albert Gilles' Art Deco/Mid-Century
Modern Hammered Copper Lamps with Designs of Chinese Immortals tallest with shade height 30.3 in — 77 cm...
[more like this] - LEROY NEIMAN "MUHAMMAD ALI - ATHLETE
OF THE CENTURY" SE...DESCRIPTION: Limited edition LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012) serigraph "Muhammad Ali - Athlete of the Century". Serigraph on one hundred percent cotton...
[more like this] - INDUSTRIAL TOOL SCULPTURE20th century,
comprising: steel hammer, hook, brush, knife and wood hand, all mounted on rectangular lucite base, unsigned, 9-1/2 x 20 x 3-3/4 in.
Provenance: Property sold to benefit...
[more like this] - TWO CONTINENTAL GLASS VASES20th century,
comprising: circa 1930, Pergamon vase of bulbous form, overlaid with hammered copper, protruding undulating and triangular glass forms, flared rim, impressed to base "Pergamon"...
[more like this] - TWO SPANISH COLONIAL RETABLOS(Mexico,
19th century)
St. Joseph and the Christ Child, oil on tin, with painted nicho punched frame, 12-5/8 x 7-1/2 x 1 in.; Virgin, oil on tin with nicho frame with reverse painted...
[more like this] - WEARABLE ROMAN GOLD & GLASS BASKET SHAPED
EARRINGSRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. This is a gorgeous, matched pair of basket shaped earrings, each inlaid with red glass. The earrings are hammered...
[more like this] - SIGNED NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK SCREENPRINT
ON ALUMINUMNicholas Krushenick (American, 1929-1999). Untitled screenprint in colors/aluminum, 1968. Signed, dated, and numbered 35/50 on lower left. A large-scale composition...
[more like this] - VERACRUZ STONE HACHA - ABSTRACT FACE
W/ CINNABARPre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz) culture, ca. 5th to 7th century CE. A fabulous example of a hand-carved stone hacha depicting an abstract...
[more like this] - SIGNED JAPANESE MUROMACHI STEEL KO-WAKIZASHI
& BOOKEast Asia, Japan, late Muromachi period, ca. 1500 to 1550 CE, signed by Kanehisa. A beautiful example of a ko-wakizashi with a single-edged steel blade that is slightly...
[more like this] - JAPANESE MUROMACHI STEEL & LACQUERED
WOOD WAKIZASHIEast Asia, Japan, late Muromachi period, ca. third quarter of the 16th century CE. A beautiful wakizashi with a single-edged blade, a lacquered (urushi) wood...
[more like this] - SUPERB BYZANTINE GOLD CROSS W/ GARNET
CABOCHONNear East, Holy Land, Byzantine empire, ca. 6th to 8th century CE. A lovely 89% gold (equivalent to 21K+) cross pendant with solid conical arms presenting hexagonal...
[more like this] - SIGNED JAPANESE EDO COPPER ARTICULATED
CRAYFISHEast Asia, Japan, late Edo to early Meiji Period, ca. mid-19th to early 20th century CE. A fine model of an articulated crayfish bearing an impressed signature on...
[more like this] - SICAN GOLD REPOUSSE DEPICTION OF NAYLAMP
- 6.4 GPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican/Lambayeque, ca. 9th to 11th century CE. A remarkable example of the exceptional luxury arts created by the Sican/Lambayeque peoples,...
[more like this] - ROMAN GLASS PENDANT NECKLACE, BRASS
& GOLD-FILLED CAGERoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A beautiful free-blown, translucent, pale-green glass vessel fragment set within a sunburst chain cage...
[more like this] - SICAN LAMBAYEQUE HAMMERED COPPER MASKPre-Columbian,
north coast of Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 10th to 11th century CE. A mask made of hammered copper, with two huge copper projections that rise, similar to horns...
[more like this] - MOCHE COPPER MASK - STYLIZED LORD /
KINGPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An impressive hammered-copper funerary mask depicting the stylized face of a lord or king. The visage...
[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] - ELEGANT GREEK HELLENISTIC ELECTRUM REPOUSSE
DIADEMEastern Mediterranean, Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. A stunning electrum diadem with an extraordinary repousse decoration across the obverse...
[more like this] - FINE SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER MALE HEADAncient
Middle East, South Arabia, modern-day Yemen, Qatabanian culture, ca. 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE. A hand-carved alabaster head boasting soft honey-yellow and white hues,...
[more like this] - SUPERB LURISTAN BRONZE SHORT SWORDAncient
Near East, Northwestern Iran and Southeastern Turkey, Luristan culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. A beautiful short sword cast from bronze via the lost wax (cire perdue)...
[more like this] - SUPERB ROMAN BRONZE TREFOIL OINOCHOE
W/ MASK TERMINALRoman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A tall, cast-bronze oinochoe (pouring vessel) with a concentric ring base, a bulbous body, and a rounded...
[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] - LARGE CORINTHIAN SKYPHOS ANIMAL FRIEZE,
TL TESTEDAncient Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th to 5th century CE. A wheel-thrown skyphos of sizable form with a flared discoid foot, an inverted bell-shaped body with swelling...
[more like this] - MOCHE LOMA NEGRA COPPER MASK POWERFUL
LORDPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Loma Negra region, Moche culture, ca. 6th to 7th century CE. A stunning gilt copper funerary mask inlaid with white shells and blue lapis...
[more like this] - PRE-COLUMBIAN CHIMU GOLD RITUAL KERO
(DRINKING VESSEL)Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chimu, Late Intermediate Period, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An elegant ritual kero (drinking cup) formed from a single sheet...
[more like this] - RARE 18TH C. TIBETAN GILT BRASS SNOW
LION PLAQUESCentral Asia, Tibet, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. An exceptional pair of brass Tibetan Snow Lion repousse plaques each adorned with a gilt body and a verdigris...
[more like this] - SUPERB CHONTAL STONE FACE MASK**First
Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Chontal culture, Late Preclassic Period, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. A handsome mask carved from tan-brown stone...
[more like this] - 9TH C. JAVANESE GOLD SRI RING, SYMBOL
OF PROSPERITY**Originally Listed At $900**
Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Java, ca. 9th to 12th century CE. A resplendent gold-silver alloy ring with a circular face that is...
[more like this] - 9TH C. JAVANESE GOLD RING W/ GARNET
CABOCHONSoutheast Asia, Indonesia, Java, ca. 9th to 12th century CE. A magnificent 82.9% gold (equivalent to 19K+) ring inlaid with a garnet cabochon made during the Classical...
[more like this] - 7 PC GROUP OF ANTIQUE IRON FIREPLACE
ACCESSORIES Continental, 19th century and later. Seven piece fireplace set comprising 19th century pair of andirons; stand with poker, tongs and shovel; and 21st century...
[more like this] - PAIR OF DE MATTEO SILVER HAND HAMMERED
COMPOTES COMPOTES, both marked De Matteo/ Sterling and Hand Hammered, both with flaring upper surface above a twisted and tapering column with three arched berried section...
[more like this] - ERNEST GIMSON (1864-1919) (ATTRIBUTED
DESIGNER)
PAIR OF ARTS & CRAFTS ANDIRONS, CIRCA 1900 brass and wrought steel(2)each 34.5cm wide, 65cm high, 21cm deepProvenance:Hurtwood House, Hurtwood Chase, Abinger Hammer;From...
[more like this] - FIVE TABLE LAMPS. Twentieth century.
Pair of Arts & Crafts copper lamps in the form of street lamps 14''h. and a spelter base with hammered copper patina 13''h. Together with a bronze Japanese vase with storks...
[more like this] - Six-Piece Group of Sterling Silver and
Silverplate, comprised of a pair of Lunt weighted sterling silver console candlesticks in the Georgian taste, second quarter 20th century, h. 5"; a Vichy, Peru, hammered...
[more like this] - 7 vols. (1 wrappers) Typography & Book
Design: Johnson, A.F. French Sixteenth Century Printing. New York: Scribner's, 1928. 4to, orig. bds., paper labels; moderate wear, some dust soiling, foot of spine chipped...
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