- 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] - 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] - 12TH C. ALASKAN THULE FOSSILIZED WALRUS
IVORY AXENative American, Northwestern United States, Alaska, Yupik peoples, Thule period, ca. 12th to 17th century CE. A lengthy section of ivory from a walrus tusk that...
[more like this] - GREEK POTTERY LIDDED LEKANISAncient
Greece, Classical period, ca. 5th century CE. A wheel-thrown pottery lekanis with a broad lower body and a form-fitting lid. The lower half bears a squat foot, a hemispherical...
[more like this] - 21 BAROQUE ENGRAVINGS OF ARMOR (CUSTODIS-FONTANA)David
Custodis (German, active early 17th century) after Giovanni Battista Fontana (Italian, 1524-1587), ca. early 17th century CE. Twenty one early Baroque engravings, broadsheets...
[more like this] - EARLY ETRUSCAN IMPASTO WARE CHALICEAncient
Europe, Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. late 7th to early 6th century BCE. Wheel-thrown pottery chalice with a flared foot beneath a tapered stem, a broad body, and a thin rim...
[more like this] - 3 GREEK HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA FEMALE
VOTIVE EFFIGIESGreece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 4th to 1st century BCE. This is a lovely trio of pottery figural fragments of women - including the nude torso of Aphrodite....
[more like this] - REMARKABLE OLMEC POTTERY WAILING BABY
FIGUREPre-Columbian, Mexico, Olmec culture, ca. 10th to 6th century BCE. A dramatic terracotta figure of a seated human baby, posed with legs akimbo and both hands resting...
[more like this] - MASSIVE GRECO-PHOENICIAN STONE VESSELAncient
Eastern Mediterranean, Greco-Phoenician, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A huge white limestone vessel, created in two sections, with a graceful form. The body is piriform, with...
[more like this] - GANDHARA SCHIST LIDDED RELIQUARY W/
FLORAL MOTIF**First Time At Auction**
Central Asia, Pakistan / Afghanistan, Gandhara, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A hand carved schist reliquary or casket jar, made from 2...
[more like this] - CHINESE BRASS VASE. Nineteenth century.
Two part with applied riders on various animals and symbols on the top and vining roots on the neck. Cast archaistic mask background designs. Neck has impressed marks. Some...
[more like this] - Large Chinese root wood cup 17th century
Modeled naturalistic form, pewter lined interior, fine figured grain, applied brass ring handle. H: 5 1/2 in. L: 9 in. ,200 Wear to pewter, moderate surface wear, minor...
[more like this] - Good Chinese root wood drinking cup
17th century Of single section U-shape form, the exterior well-carved in low relief to show a scholar or immortal holding a ruyi with attendants in a bamboo grove, lacquered...
[more like this] - Chinese root wood cup 17th century
Of shallow bulbous form, fine golden patina to interior, dark coffee brown exterior of gnarled growths and hollows. D: 4 in. 1 in. age crack to rim, some loss to lacquered...
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