FINE ANCIENT ART, ANTIQUITIES & COINS

Ca. 600-800 AD. A wearable, religious gold pendant in a circular form with a beaded border enclosing a relief decoration of two doves facing each ...

Ca. 500-700 AD. A beautiful circular gold pendant inset with garnets, framed with a beaded edge and flanked by a pair of opposing suspension loops...

Neo-Classical, Ca. 1800-1900 AD. A lovely brooch composwed of an Alexander III the Great silver, authentic 4th C BC drachm, set in fine 18K yellow...

Ca. 1800 AD. A carnelian intaglio of ovoid form, skillfully incised with a depiction of God Mars wearing his military attire, set in an elaboratel...

Ca. 1800 AD. A gold discoid pendant with an intricately decorated border of concentric filigree bands enclosing a central sardonyx cameo of a left...

Ca. 1000 BC. A votive figure of a bull in a layer of sheet silver. The animal is standing in a naturalistic position, the thick muscular neck with...

Ca. 300 BC - 100 AD. A finely carved alabaster freestanding bull figure depicted standing alert on all four legs with nicely detailed hooves. The ...

Qataban, Ca. 300 BC - 100 AD. An alabaster funerary stele with a slightly tapering profile towards the bottom, with a high relief bovine head proj...

Ca. 300 BC. A funerary stele, polygonal in form, sculpted in low relief with a face head with almond-shaped eyes, a prominent long triangular nose...

Ca. 3000-2500 BC. A large terracotta vessel sitting upon a flat circular base from which a globular body rises upwards and terminates in a wide op...

Ca. 3rd Millennium BC. A finelly modelled vessel which has been wheel made with a globular base. Its black glaze radiating with a zoomorphic incis...

Ca. 1st Millennium BC. Ca. 1st Millennium BCA beautiful necklace of carnelian and agate graduated beads highlighted by 6 hollow coin-like beads an...

Ca. 400-600 AD. A rare gold finger ring comprising a highly decorative hoop of a flat-section band, expanding to support an oval-shaped bezel engr...

Ca. 1000-800 BC. A hollow-formed gold ring with a rounded outer face with a slight carination and a flat inner face, with tapered and overlapping ...

Ca. 550-330 BC. A beautiful bracelet made of a hollow shank formed of silver sheet. The shank features a round-section body with terminals in the ...

Ca. 550-330 BC. A beautiful bracelet made of a hollow shank formed of silver sheet. The shank features a round-section body with terminals in the ...

Ca. 618–907. Chinese Tang Dynasty (or later).. A beautiful marble torso of a bodhisattva elegantly adorned with an astonishing jewelled harness ma...

Ca. 618–907. Chinese Tang Dynasty (or later).. A beautiful marble statue of a seated bodhisattva depicted wearing voluminous robes elegantly drape...

Ca. 200-300 AD. A grey schist carving of a standing Buddha. This excellent figure is backed by a circular halo and dressed in a flowing Kasaya (mo...

Ca. 200-300 AD . A remarkable example of Kushan artistry, richly carved in grey schist, combining naturalism of the classical Greek style with the...

Ca. 100-300 AD. A schist stone head of a Buddha. He is depicted with wavey hair gathered up in a topknot above a headband. His face characteristic...

Ca. 206 BC - 220 AD. A set comprising two players and a Liubo board with playing pieces. Both figures are shown in a seated position. They are dre...

Ca. 618-907 AD. An earthenware mingqi of a foreign rider on a camel modelled in a standing pose. The rider is depicted with his body facing outwar...

Late Shang/Early Western Zhou Dynasty, Ca. 12th-11th Century BC. Cast in relief with taotie masks and leiwen, on three bird-shaped flattened profi...

Late Shang Dynasty, Ca. 1300-1100 BC. A bronze cauldron, generally known as a ding. The object comprises a rectangular body with a shelved rim and...

Eastern Zhou Dynasty/Warring States Period, Ca. 475-221 BC. The heavily-cast vessel, with a spherical body, supported on three feet (which resembl...

Late Shang Dynasty, circa 11th Century BC. This rare and unique vessel contains a U-shaped body rising from three splayed triangular blade tripod ...

Ca. 300 BC. A flat stone offering table with one edge ending in a bovine head with its head down. Through the upper face of the altar and the bull...

Ca. 300 BC. An alabaster funerary stele sculpted in high relief with a male head with eyes, recessed for inlays, prominent eyebrows merging into a...

Central Asia, Ca. 2nd millennium BC. A pottery female figure seated upon a flare-base seat, playing a stringed musical instrument, held on her lef...

Ca. 3500 BC. A pottery grotesque head with a prominent nose and grimacing mouth, depicting Humbaba. In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Humbaba wa...

Ca. 3700-3500 BC. An attractive grey-coloured stone Tell Brak Eye Idol consisting of a bell-shaped body, supporting two drilled circular eyes. Ido...

Ca. 3700-3500 BC. A rare alabaster Tell Brak Eye Idol consisting of a flat trapezoidal body, recessed at the top for the neck and surmounted by tw...

Ca. 1000–650 AD. . Western Asiatic, Urartu. A rare, intact bronze belt made of a wide lateral bronze band embellished with geometric, floral decor...

Ca. 1600-800 BC. A bronze shield boss also known as an umbo, of a circular form, with a raised and pierced domed centre and a broad flat flange ni...

Ca. 1600-800 BC. A circular shield boss (umbo) with a raised central section pierced for attachment. The surrounding flange is decorated with a re...

Ca. 224–651 AD.. Sassanian. A hemispherical bowl hammered from one sheet. The interior is decorated with a medallion showing a gilded animal surro...

Ca. 3100-2900 BC. Early Bronze Age, Ca. 3100-2900 BCA Holy Land storage vessel with a spherical body and two ledge handles. The vessel has a wide,...

Ca. 3100-2900 BC. A Holy Land storage vessel with a spherical body and two ledge handles. The vessel has a wide, slightly out-turned mouth, decora...

Ca. 3100-2900 BC. A storage vessel formed of a light terracotta with a spherically shaped body and seven protruding nodules for decoration. The ve...

Ca. 2nd millennium BC. A pottery beaker with globular-shaped body with four individual protruding faces with stylised round applied eyes and open ...

Middle Bronze Age, Ca. 1950-1730 BC. A fine example of a coil-made red burnished pottery jug with globular, almost amphora-like body, with a trefo...

Ca. 1st millennium BC. A pottery jar with bulbous shaped body and long protruding spout with applied loop underneath. The body with a long extendi...

Middle Bronze Age IIA, Ca. 2000-1730 BC. A burnished cream slip pottery jug with a piriform body and button-shaped base. The surface is decorated ...

Ca. 1600-1400 BC. A nicely modelled terracotta bowl, featuring smooth sloping sides and finger-pinched decoration. The thin walls of the bowl flar...

Middle Bronze IIB-C, Ca. 1730-1550 BC. A finely sculpted, pottery bowl in cream buff with a carinated shoulder from which the walls of the body ta...

Ca. 3000-2500 BC. A fine example of a monochrome Indus Valley civilization pot with a bulbous body rising from an undecorated conical-shaped base....

Ca. 3000- BC. A nice example of a squat bowl with a biconvex body on a ring base and a short, raised rim. The upper part of the body is decorated ...

Ca. 3000- BC. A terracotta bowl or vessel, comprising a biconvex body resting on a ring foot. The upper portion of the buff coloured vessel is dec...

Iron Age II, C.a 1050-800 BC. With a globular round body, a ring base, a carinated shoulder, a rounded rim and a basket handle. A tubular spout em...

Ca. 3000 BC. A bowl of globular shaped proportion; the base sloping to a narrow ring foot decorated with an incised line of decoration. The bowl i...

Ca. 3rd Millennium BC. A Holy Land jug set on a low ring foot with a squat, globular body and a long vertical handle that begins at the widest par...

Ca. 600-800 AD. A Judeo-Aramaic terracotta bowl of a flaring body densely inscribed with lines of incantations against evil spirits. It is written...

Ca. 600-800 AD. A Judeo-Aramaic "devil trap" terracotta bowl with black lines of inscription spiraling around the interior. Bowls like this exampl...

Ca. 600-800 AD. A Judeo-Aramaic terracotta bowl of a flaring body densely inscribed with lines of incantations against evil spirits. It is written...

Ca. 600-800 AD. A Judeo-Aramaic "devil trap" terracotta bowl with black lines of inscription spiraling around the interior. Bowls like this exampl...

Ca. 600-800 AD. A Judeo-Aramaic terracotta bowl of a flaring body densely inscribed with lines of incantations against evil spirits. It is written...

Ca. 2112-2095 BC. A nearly rectangular in shape brick fragment, inscribed with a central square of four columns of cuneiform text, "Ur-Nammu, king...

Ca. 3100-2900 BC. A pictographic tablet, rectangular in form, with lines of proto-cuneiform written in columns, recording the administrative accou...

Ca. 560 BC. A terracotta temple foundation brick of Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, rectangular with thirteen columns of cuneiform text mention...