- CELADON-GLAZED BOWL WITH COVER
VIETNAM,
LE OR TRAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY ?? ???? ??????????the wide rounded body supported on a short ring foot rising to a gently everted mouth, carved around the body with...
[more like this] - RARE POTTERY BEAKER
WESTERN HAN DYNASTY
?? ????of tapering cylindrical form supported on a pedestal foot, two incised bands decorating the upper part of the body(1)18.7cm highProvenance: Blitz Chinese Ceramics &...
[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] - EARLY 20TH C. KWAKWAKA'WAKW WOOD FEAST
BOWL WHALESNative American, Pacific Northwest, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden feast bowl of an enormous size with an ovoid...
[more like this] - PUBLISHED ANATOLIAN BEYCESULTAN MARBLE
IDOL, EX EDEAncient Near East, modern day Turkey, Anatolia, Beycesultan type, Early Bronze Age I-II, ca. 3200 to 2300 BCE. A captivating, hand-carved marble figural effigy...
[more like this] - LARGE CASAS GRANDES STONE MANO & TROUGH
METATEPre-Columbian, North Mexico, Chihuahua, Casas Grandes (Paquime), ca. 1280 to 1450 CE. A large trough-style metate, carved from volcanic stone, displaying a porous surface...
[more like this] - 20TH C. IVORY COAST BAULE WOOD FLYWHISK
HANDLE W/ BIRD**Originally Listed At $100**
West Africa, Cote d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast, Baule peoples, ca. 1961 CE. This is an ornately detailed example of a wooden Baule flywhisk,...
[more like this] - 19TH C. TONGAN WOOD & WHALE IVORY KALI
HAHAPO HEADRESTOceania, Polynesia, Tonga, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A lovely hand carved wooden and whale tooth inlay headrest known as a kali heap or a kali...
[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] - RARE & STUNNING OLMEC JADEITE CEREMONIAL
PECTORALPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1500 to 550 BCE. This astounding and rare jadeite pectoral or funerary mask has been skillfully pecked into...
[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] - 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] - 2ND C. GANDHARAN SCHIST RELIQUARY STUPA
MODEL**First Time At Auction**
Central Asia, Pakistan / Afghanistan, ancient region of Gandhara, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A model of a Buddhist stupa reliquary, finely...
[more like this] - Two similar jade type Chinese carved
stone trees, each approximately 18"h x 18"w...
[more like this] - LARGE CHINESE QINGBAI GLAZED BOWL W/
BOYS,SONG D, Chinese Hutian ware Qingbai glazed bowl, Song Dynasty, of conical form with deep flaring sides rising from a short tapered foot, the interior incised with two...
[more like this] - CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
QING
DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY ? ????????????????one side enamelled with a pair of birds perching on flowering tree issuing from rockwork amongst other plants, against a navy...
[more like this] - Varied Four-Piece Collection of Chinese
Cloisonne, 20th century, of the traditional type, including a circular covered cushion-form sweetmeats box in "Sparrow and Prunus" decor, a globular ginger jar with domed...
[more like this] - Three Pieces of Kuang Hsu Porcelain,
including a floral-enameled white-ground porcelain fishbowl, first quarter 20th century, presented on a Chinese cordovan lacquered wooden cinquepodal stand, h. with stand...
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