FINE ANCIENT ART & ANTIQUITIES

Ca. 500 - 400 BC.A set of two Achaemenid bronze bowls with green patinas. The bowls are decorated with concentric lines on the central part of the...

Ca. 500 - 400 BC.A set of two Achaemenid bronze bowls with green patinas. The bowls are decorated with concentric lines on the central part of the...

Ca. 500 - 400 BC .A set of two Achaemenid bronze bowls with green patinas. The bowls are decorated with concentric lines on the central part of th...

Ca. 900 - 700 BC.A complete Urartian belt. Made from hammered bronze and decorated in low relief with a central band of four charioteers pulled by...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword with a long tapering blade, featuring a raised mid-rib and a curved guard for hand protect...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword with a long, tapering blade, a prominent mid-rib and a gracefully curved guard designed to...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword with a long tapering blade, featuring a raised mid-rib and a curved guard for hand protect...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword consisting of a long triangular blade that tapers gradually to a sharp point. The hilt of ...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword with a slender blade, raised mid-rib, penannular guard, concave grip, and a small pommel. ...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze sword with a leaf-shaped blade, raised mid-rib, penannular guard, concave grip, and a flaring po...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.An extremely fine bronze sword featuring a sharp blade with a prominent midrib. The round-section hilt wi...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A striking example of a two-edged bronze blade with a leaf-shaped design and a small tang providing a sec...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A well-preserved bronze sword with a triangular blade and a fitted sheath. The sword has a sharply pointe...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A large and well-formed bronze blade with a central blood groove that bifurcates at the base of the blade...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A a pair of cast Bronze Age axe heads. The first double axe head characterized by a short cylindrical shaft hole with a collared...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A Luristan bronze axe head with a long blade and a vertical hole in the handle. Contrary to popular belief, the most commonly us...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A cast bronze set of weapons composed of three daggers and a spearhead. The flat, large blades presenting signs of use. For simi...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A stylised figure of a mother with a broad hat and a narrow bird-like face, very typical for this region. She wears a long gown ...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A bronze pin featuring a round-section shank that extends on one end to a stag protome adorned with high branched horns, lon...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A bronze freestanding figurine depicting a stag. The animal presents a slender body on delicate, long legs, with each leg wi...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A bronze freestanding figurine depicting a stag. The animal features an uplifted neck that gracefully extends to a forward-f...

Ca. 2000 - 700 BC.A bronze freestanding figurine depicting a mythological animal. The animal features an extremely elongated and uplifted neck tha...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A cast bronze double axe head, characterized by a short cylindrical shaft hole with a collared rim, a flattened top, a vertical ...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A cast bronze double axe head, characterized by a short cylindrical shaft hole with a collared rim, a flattened top, a vertical ...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze spearhead, distinguished by its long and slender form, manifests a prominent rib traversing its ...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A cast bronze spearhead showcases a triangular-shaped blade with a pronounced midrib running its entire l...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A bronze spearhead boasts a leaf-shaped blade with a prominent midrib that runs down its centre, creating...

Western Asiatic/Aegan, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A cast bronze spearhead showcases a triangular-shaped blade with a pronounced midrib running its entire l...

Ca. 1200 - 700 BC.A Western Asiatic bronze sword with a leaf-shaped blade, raised midrib and penannular guard. The blade is connected to a concave...

Ca. 900 - 750 BC.A Western Asiatic bronze standard attachment, depicting the Master of Animals figure, with both hands gripping the necks of beast...

Ca. 900 - 750 BC.A Western Asiatic bronze standard attachment, depicting the Master of Animals figure, with both hands gripping the necks of beast...

Ca. 1200 - 800 BC.A Western Asiatic decorated bronze horse bit, composed with two side panels decorated with floral motifs around which mythologic...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A stylised figure of a mother with a broad hat and a narrow bird-like face, typical for this region. She is holding a newborn ch...

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC.A stylised figure of a mother with a broad hat and a narrow bird-like face, typical for this region. She is holding a newborn ch...

Ca. 1300 - 600 BC.A bronze cloth pin comprising a round-sectioned shank and stylised poppy-head finial above a row of protruding bosses. For simil...

Ca. 1600 - 800 BC.A bronze shield boss, known as an "umbo". It is circular in shape and features a raised perforated centre. The umbo, a centre an...

Ca. 1600 - 800 BC.A bronze shield boss, known as an "umbo". It is circular in shape and features a raised perforated centre. The umbo, a centre an...

Ca. 1200 - 800 BC.A Western Asiatic turquoise necklace composed with cylindrical turquoise beads interspersed with gold beads. In the centre there...

Ca. 1000 - 500 BC.A Western Asiatic carnelian necklace composed of biconical carnelian beads interspersed with gold beads. For similar see: Christ...

Ca. AD 600 - 900.A Javanese gold finger ring, with filigree around the bezel connected to the shoulders, moulded into the shape of a stylised plan...

Ca. 2000 BC .An Old Babylonian foundation cone, also known as ‘clay nail’, with cuneiform roughly two-thirds around the body. The body tapers to a...

Ca. 2000 BC .An Old Babylonian foundation cone with cuneiform roughly two-thirds around the body. The Sumerian determinative DINGIR is written, th...

Ca. 400 - 200 BC. A very heavy 19 ct gold penannular torque formed from a solid wire, circular in section. Lion heads adorn the terminals, with ge...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A Western Asiatic bronze figurine depicting a standing ibex with its distinct and sizeable notched horns, characteristic of ...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A Western Asiatic bronze freestanding figurine, portraying a stag. The creature boasts a short neck that gracefully extends ...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.A Western Asiatic bronze freestanding figurine depicting a bull carrying a smaller animal on its back. The larger animal sta...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.An Amlash bronze statuette of the king of the animals represented standing and holding the collars of two animals (probably ...

Ca. 1st millennium BC.An Amlash bronze statuette of a ram represented standing on four legs (with a horizontal perforation on the edge connected t...

Ca. 1000 - 700 BC.An Amlash bronze spouted vessel composed with a globular body connected to a large neck and flat horizontal rim. It has a long a...

Ca. 2500 - 1500 BC.An ancient Elamite beaker hammered from a single sheet of bronze. The vessel is conical in form with a concave body and an ever...

Ca. 900 - 600 BC.A Western Asiatic hard stone cylinder seal. It depicts a mythological scene with a winged god in the middle of a group of wild ru...

Ca. 1100 - 900 BC.An Elamite hard stone cylinder seal depicting the sacred tree and winged animals. Additional decoration includes stars in the sk...

Ca. 1400 - 1100 BC.A Babylonian Cassite cylinder seal depicting a bearded, seated god wearing a long robe and raising a hand. On the left, five li...

Ca. 2000 - 1600 BC.An Old Babylonian hardstone cylinder seal, depicting scenes of rituals in the court of an ancient palace. Additional decoration...

Ca. 1500 - 500 BC.A stone square seal from West Persia depicting a nude female from the front. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor...

Ca. 1100 - 900 BC.A stone cylinder seal from West Persia depicting a hunting scene with a god using a bow against wild animals. Accompanied by a s...

Ca. 2000 - 1600 BC.An Old Babylonian hardstone cylinder seal with three figures. It has two lines of cuneiform script: I - LI -TU - RA - AM - ILI ...

Ca. 2600 - 2300 BC.A Sumerian hardstone cylinder seal depicting scenes of rituals in the court of an ancient Sumerian palace; Jemet Nasr style. Ac...

Ca. 1100 - 800 BC.A Sumerian hardstone cylinder seal depicting two quadrupeds. The first is depicted turning back with horns and wings, while the ...

Ca. 1900 - 1600 BC.An Old Babylonian hardstone cylinder seal depicting a single standing Lamma goddess in a horned tiara and long flounced robe, r...