- 19TH C. MICRONESIAN MORTLOCK ISLAND
WOOD AXE**Originally Listed At $1200**
Oceania, Micronesia, Mortlock Island, ca. mid to late 19th century CE. A sturdy wooden axe used to harvest taro with a handle carved...
[more like this] - 2 TRANSLATED NEO-SUMERIAN CLAY FOUNDATION
CONESAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian Period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A pair of hand-built clay foundation cones...
[more like this] - 2 TRANSLATED NEO-SUMERIAN CLAY FOUNDATION
CONESAncient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian Period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A lovely pair of hand-built clay foundation...
[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] - RARE / FINE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE PENDANT
ISIS KNOTEgypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A rare example of a mold-formed pendant of a hieroglyph known as the Isis knot ("tet" or "tit"...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN CARVED WOOD AMULET DJED PILLAREgypt,
Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A hand-carved wooden amulet in the form of a djed pillar, one of the most instantly recognizable symbols from ancient...
[more like this] - RARE PARACAS POLYCHROME BOWL OCULATE
BEING, TL'DPre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Ica Valley, Paracas culture, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A hand-built pottery bowl exhibiting astounding decorative motifs that are incised...
[more like this] - TRANSLATED NEO-SUMERIAN CLAY FOUNDATION
CONES (PR)Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Sumer, city of Lagash, Neo-Sumerian period, reign of Gudea of Lagash, ca. 2144 to 2124 BCE. A wonderful set of two hand-built clay...
[more like this] - EARLY BYZANTINE MARBLE CAPITAL W/ PILLAR
SECTIONNear East, Early Byzantine Period, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. A beautifully preserved example of a column and capital cut from a single piece of radiant marble. The...
[more like this] - TRANSLATED ROMAN LIMESTONE FUNERARY
STELE OF COUPLERoman, Imperial period, Eastern Empire, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A captivating limestone stele of a massive, rectangular form, skillfully hand-carved to display...
[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 MEZCALA STONE TEMPLE W/ RECUMBENT
HUMAN FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 200 BCE to 500 CE. A very rare stone carving that combines a traditional Guerrero stone temple...
[more like this] - VERY FINE BACTRIAN STONE PILLAR IDOL,
EX CHRISTIE'SAncient Central Asia or Asia Minor, Bactria, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A beautiful example of a pillar idol (sometimes called a column or columnar...
[more like this] - 19TH C. FRENCH IRON TORCHIERE OF EGYPTIAN
BOY ON COLUMN...Western Europe, France, ca. late 19th century CE. After "Egyptien" by Mathurin Moreau (French, 1822 to 1912) for the Val d'Osne Foundry. Cast iron and paint....
[more like this] - MASSIVE MAYA BASALT BOUNDARY MARKER
BOUND PRISONERPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Classic to Postclassic period, 500 to 1300 CE. A monumental volcanic stone carving of a prisoner crouching...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE CAPITAL CORINTHIAN STYLE
(WALL COLUMN)Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A gorgeous marble capital of a wall column from the Corinthian order boasting classic trompe l'oeil relief...
[more like this] - GANDHARA PANEL BUDDHA FEET ATOP BODHISATTVA
RELIEF**First Time At Auction**
Northwest Pakistan, Gandharan Empire, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A fabulous gray schist panel depicting a relief of a Bodhisattva in meditation...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE STELE OF DRAPED MALE W/
INSCRIPTION**First Time At Auction**
*This item may be oversized. Please inquire about shipping prior to bidding.
Roman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A...
[more like this] - CANOSAN POTTERY VOLUTE KRATER W/ EQUESTRIAN
& NIKE, TL**First Time At Auction**
Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, Canosa, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A gorgeous polychrome volute krater, meticulously hand-painted...
[more like this] - 16TH C. EUROPEAN BOXWOOD RELIEF CARVING,
ALLIANCE SCENE...**Originally Listed At $2500**
Northern or Western Europe, probably Germany or Italy, Renaissance period, ca. 16th to 17th century CE. A remarkably intricate...
[more like this] - TALL ANCIENT PERSIAN IRON AGE PEDESTAL
DISH, TL TESTED**Originally Listed At $2000**
Central Asia, Persia, Iron Age I-II, ca. 1350 to 800 BCE. A refined pottery pedestal dish of a complex form with 3 elongated,...
[more like this] - ROMAN SIDONIAN GLASS FLASK BACCHIC IMAGERY**Originally
Listed At $1500**
Roman, Sidonian, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. Wow! An opulent mold-made glass flask boasting gorgeous relief decoration of Bacchic imagery: a row of wine...
[more like this] - OLMEC / PROTO MAYA BOWL INCISED GLYPHS,
EX-SCHMITT**Originally Listed At $600**
Pre-Columbian, Mexico to Guatemala, late Olmec to Proto Maya, ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE. An early Maya bowl showing Olmec influence, incised...
[more like this] - 19TH C. INDIAN BRASS HOUSEHOLD PUJA
MANDIR ALTAR SHRINE...**First Time At Auction**
South Asia, India, ca. 19th century CE. A brass home shrine, a miniature temple known as a Mandir, resting on four feet with...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN LATE DYNASTIC FAIENCE USHABTI**Originally
Listed At $600**
Egypt, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A wonderful faience ushabti standing in mummiform position atop an integral plinth with a dorsal...
[more like this] - ROMAN MARBLE IONIC CAPITAL FRAGMENT
CURVED VOLUTERoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fragment of a curved volute from an Ionic capital, an iconic classical architectural form that Vitruvius,...
[more like this] - ROMAN BONE FINIAL, NUDE HERCULES WRESTLING
NEMEAN LIONRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A dramatic sculpture, carved in the round from the bone of an ungulate, depicting a nude Hercules wrestling the...
[more like this] - RIO MAGDALENA MOSKITO POTTERY URN W/
LID, TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Northern Colombia, Rio Magdalena, Moskito, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A This is an incredible funerary effigy vessel with a figural lid, and a conical...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN FAIENCE USHABTI W/ HIEROGLYPHSAncient
Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 664 BCE. A gorgeous mold-formed faience ushabti covered in a brilliant azure-hued glaze and decorated with...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD SARCOPHAGUS
PANELAncient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A hand-carved wooden panel, likely cedar, from the top of a sarcophagus. The tapered panel...
[more like this] - JOHN WILLIAM GODWARD (BRITISH 1861-1922)
POPPIES
Signed and dated '98, oil on canvas76cm x 61cm (30in x 24in)Provenance: The Late Dr Helen E C Cargill ThompsonNote: The model is Miss Ethel Warwick who was sixteen when she...
[more like this] - LARGE WHITE CULTURED MARBLE COLUMN PEDESTAL
STANDLarge pedestal/ stand, likely cultured marble, 20th c., having square top with molded edge, over standard with spiraled accents, ending in octagonal stepped base, small...
[more like this] - CORINTHIAN COLUMN CULTURED MARBLE PEDESTALCorinthian
column pedestal, likely cultured marble, having shaped top, over standard with classical figural accents in relief, ending in square base, approx 24"h, 9"w, 9"d...
[more like this] - (2) CLASSICAL STYLE WHITE PEDESTAL STANDS(lot
of 2) Classical style pedestals, 20th c., including: (1) cultured marble pedestal, having square top, over fluted columnar standard, approx 24.25"h, 15"sq; (1) white-painted...
[more like this] - Two pairs silver plate candlesticks:
one pair Corinthian columns with stop-fluted shafts, square bases, beaded borders, 11-1/2 in.; one pair round paneled column, square bases, beaded border, probably Engllish,...
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