- Three Piece French Clock Garniture,
late 19th century the movement signed with Hors Concours, 1878, medallion, striking on a bell in an ormolu mounted green variegated marble 'temple' case flanked by a pair...
[more like this] - A SOUTHERN INDIAN POLYCHROME WOOD SCULPTURE
OF A DANCIN... OF A DANCING FIGURE, ATTRIBUTED TO KARNATAKA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, the multi-tiered crown issuing a peacock sarpech hair ornament, joined by a mirror inlaid medallion...
[more like this] - STRIKING 19TH C. TEMPLE ALTAR BUDDHIST
DOUBLE FISH EMBL...19th century Chinese or Tibetan Buddhist temple altar with a double fish emblem. This striking wooden altar is carved in immense detail and lacquered and...
[more like this] - 33. JEWELED GILT BRASS SCEPTER -CA.
1939 -GILT BRASS SC...33. Jeweled Gilt Brass Scepter -Ca. 1939 -Gilt brass scepter fashioned in an appealing mirrored concept featuring a ball top chased in low relief and...
[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] - MAYA POTTERY CYLINDER W/ CROSS DESIGNPre-Columbian,
southern Mexico and northern Central America, Mayan Territories, Late Classic period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An interesting and striking cylinder vessel, painted a shiny black...
[more like this] - EARLY 20TH C. JAPANESE MEIJI NEGORO
LACQUERED TRAYSEast Asia, Japan, Meiji Period, ca. early 20th century CE. A lovely pair of Negoro lacquered wood trays, one is a lengthy ovoid form and the other a discoidal...
[more like this] - SIGNED 1960S MORRIS KANTOR PAINTING
- "OPEN DOOR"Morris Kantor (Russian-American, 1896-1974). "Open Door" oil on canvas, ca. 1960s. Signed by the artist on the lower left. A striking painting by Morris Kantor...
[more like this] - HOLYLAND JUDAEA JEWISH WAR AR SILVER
SHEKELNear East / Holy Land, Judaea, Jewish War, ca. 66 to 70 CE. AR silver shekel. First revolt, year 2, 67-68 CE. 'Shekel of Israel' (Paleo-Hebrew), ritual chalice with...
[more like this] - IMPOSING MAYA BASALT RELIEF CARVING
OF TLALOCPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Cotzumalguapa region, Maya culture, Late Classic Period, ca. 650 to 900 CE. A stunning and large basalt stone fragment,...
[more like this] - TEOTIHUACAN POTTERY INCENSARIO OF RAIN
GOD TLALOC, TL'D...Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A marvelous and massive theatre-type incensario featuring an ornately decorated lid with...
[more like this] - ROMAN IMPERIAL STATUE BULL STRIDING
FORWARDRoman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A handsome brass statue of a humped bull depicted in the midst of motion, striding forward in a strikingly naturalistic...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED CHAVIN STIRRUP VESSEL EAGLE
& JAGUAR**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, Jequetepeque-Templadera type, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. One of the more striking examples of ancient...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM GRANITE HEAD
OF A MAN**First Time At Auction**
Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 11th to 13th Dynasty, ca. 2130 to 1649 BCE. A striking bust of a male figure hand-carved from granite with...
[more like this] - 2ND C. GANDHARAN SCHIST BUDDHA TORSO
LOTUS POSITION**Originally Listed At $1200**
Central Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gandharan Empire, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A depiction of Buddha torso sitting in lotus...
[more like this] - LARGE CHINESE TANG SANDSTONE BUDDHIST
LOHAN HEADEast Asia, China, Tang Dynasty to Song Dynasty, ca. 618 to 1270 CE. A remarkable life-sized Lohan head hand-carved from a warm-gray sandstone. The bald head and...
[more like this] - 2ND C. GANDHARA KUSHAN SCHIST RELIEF
3 WOMEN + MANCentral Asia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Gandhara / Kushan Empire, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A stunning figural panel hand-carved in high relief...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED EGYPTIAN EFFIGY SOTHIC DOG,
EXHIBITED LACMAEgypt, late Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE. An exceedingly rare, mold-formed terracotta canine, known as the Sothic...
[more like this] - FRENCH NEOCLASSICAL MARBLE MANTEL CLOCKFrench
Neoclassical marble mantel clock, late 19th c., temple-form case with gilt metal Classical frieze, fluted columns, chapter ring with gilt Roman numerals, unmarked time and...
[more like this] - FRENCH EMPIRE STYLE BRONZE PORTICO CLOCKFrench
Neoclassical bronze portico clock, 19th c., having temple-form case, decorated with lyre and foliate motif mounts, four Corinthian style columns centering dial with black...
[more like this] - LOUIS XVI ORMOLU & MARBLE CERCLES TOURNANTS
MANTEL CLOCK, GILLE A PARIS, CA. 1775 Ormolu and marble with Chinese influenced figure, porcelain chapter rings in Roman and Arabic numbers signed 'Gille A Paris'. 8-day time...
[more like this] - EARLY CHINESE CAST BRONZE TEMPLE BELL:
Bonsho Buddhist temple bell made of cast bronze with dragon faced handle. Decorative bands and rivets increase resonance, and a stylized chrysanthemum panel on two sides indicates...
[more like this] - A French Ceramic Mantel Clock of temple
form decorated with classical figures throughout centered with a circular dial having Arabic numerals and Japy-Freres time and strike movement. Height 19 inches....
[more like this] - A Fine Louis Philippe Gilt and Patinated
Bronze Three-Piece Clock Garniture in the Chinese Taste mid-19th c. the pagoda-form clock with silk-thread movement striking bell in tower four paired columnar supports with...
[more like this] - Tall and Stylish English Painted and
Parcel-Gilt Tole and Wire Birdcage, first quarter 20th century, in the Regency style, the roof modeled as graduated stacked bell forms surmounted by pineapple finials, the...
[more like this] - French style onyx and gilt brass mantel
clock Boston Clock Co. circa 1880 urn-shaped finial pediment over Greek temple formed body raised on paw feet housing tandem wind time and strike movement marked: Boston Clock...
[more like this] - Chinese Temple Bell with Carved Framethe
solid mahogany frame is carved in the form of two women standing on rocky ground beneath prunus branches a cast brass bell decorated with dragons is suspended between them.19.5...
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