- CHINESE TANG DYNASTY POTTERY POLO PLAYER
W/ TL TESTEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. An exemplary pottery polo player with a well-modeled figure upon a galloping horse with finely painted details...
[more like this] - RARE TAINO STONE ZEMI STAMP W/ LINEAR
GLYPHSPre-Columbian, Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. This is a remarkable hand-carved zemi figural stamp made from a creamy white quartzite stone...
[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] - HANDSOME AZTEC STONE FACE OF MANPre-Columbian,
Central & Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz region, Aztec culture, Post Classic period, ca. 1200 to 1521 CE. A dramatic mask carved from a gray volcanic stone, the head of a young...
[more like this] - FINE ROMAN NORTH AFRICAN REDWARE OIL
LAMP W/ FISHRoman, North Africa, Imperial Period, ca. 4th to mid-5th century CE. A wonderful mold-formed redware pottery oil lamp with a concentric circle base, a tab-shaped...
[more like this] - FINE TEOTIHUACAN STONE FIGURE PLANAR
ANTHROPOMORPHICPre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A lovely fragment of a planar anthropomorphic figure that is hand-carved from mottled...
[more like this] - 8 EGYPTIAN PTOLEMAIC & ROMANO POTTERY
HEAD FRAGMENTSEgypt, Late Dynastic and Ptolemaic to early Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 5th to 1st century BCE; Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. This...
[more like this] - GREEK LYDIAN TERRACOTTA PANEL FRAGMENT
W/ PEGASUSAncient Eastern Greece / Western Asia, Anatolia, probably Lydia, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. This is a wonderful fragmentary piece of a terracotta panel that depicts...
[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] - TALL TEOTIHUACAN GREENSTONE STANDING
FIGUREPre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan culture, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A fine hand carved stone figure with a flattened profile, string cut features, and characteristically...
[more like this] - MAYA POTTERY CYLINDER VESSEL W/ RELIEF
GLYPHSPre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A gorgeous pottery vessel presenting a cylindrical body with straight...
[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] - SPLENDID ROMAN MARBLE STATUETTE NUDE
VENUS PUDICARoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. What a knockout! Finely carved in the round, a marble sculpture of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, sensitively...
[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] - 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SILVER GOBLET AND
CHINESE 600 SILVER CUP STAND CHINESE 600 SILVER CUP STAND, the fluted goblet atop a spreading circular foot, gilt washed interior, monogrammed, maker's mark for Charles Gordon,...
[more like this] - WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 'TAOTIE' CUP WITH
DRAGON AND CHILONG HANDLES
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY ? ?????????????????raised on a stepped ring foot, the quatrefoil form cup carved in low relief on either side with...
[more like this] - Exceptional Chinese huanghuali 'Kang'
form table stand 17th century The fine double plank insert and 'ice-plate' framed fluted and beaded top is over a plain waist, finely carved and beaded curvilinear apron...
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