Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3500 BCE. A beautifully carved serpentine jar, shaped like an acorn, with perforated lug handle...

Ancient Africa, found on the Plateau of Thebes, Egypt, Middle Paleolithic Period, ca. 400,000 to 120,000 years ago. A handsome knapped black chert...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom / Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1550 to 712 BCE. A handsome steatite cosmetic dish in the form of a fish, a remarkably...

Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1292 BCE. A hand-carved stone kohl vessel in the form of a baboon reaching his arms around a palm tr...

Ancient Egypt, Late Period, ca. 712 to 300 BCE. A lifesize, cast bronze leg and foot from a bronze and wood model of an ibis, with heavy tabs for ...

Ancient Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 13th Dynasty, ca. 1803 to 1649 BCE. A fine scarab amulet of an ovoid form, hand-carved from a pale-beige steatite. ...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 712 to 343 BCE. A charming and rare model of a seated mother cat with six tiny suckling kittens. Her body is elon...

Egyptian, Ptolemaic, ca. 305 to 30 BCE. A cast leaded copper attachment - perhaps intended for a special piece of furniture - adorned by a wonderf...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 2nd century CE. A haunting portrait expertly-sculpted from stucco depicting an elegant woman with a slender nec...

Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. mid-6th century BCE. A gorgeous cast-bronze lion figurine displaying exquisite stylization characteristic of A...

Ancient Greece, possibly Laconian Type, Geometric Period, ca. 8th century BCE. A petite bronze horse presenting the characteristic abstract stylin...

Ancient Greece, Geometric Period, ca. late 8th to 7th century BCE. A fabulous cast-bronze horse presenting characteristically-abstract geometric-e...

Ancient Greece, Cyclades, Early Spedos, ca. 2600 to 2500 BCE. Finely carved from marble, a reclining female figure with her arms crossed, typical ...

Western Greece, Rhodes, Archaic period, ca. 600 BCE. A beautiful hollow-cast pottery statue depicting an elegant female figure seated upon a tall,...

Western Greece, Rhodes, Archaic period, ca. 7th to 5th century BCE. An elegant terracotta protome depicting a lovely goddess, presenting well-mode...

Greece, Corinth, ca. 7th to 6th century BCE. A richly-decorated kylix, a drinking cup for wine, with two horizontal loop handles extending from ne...

Greek, probably eastern Greece/Rhodes, late Archaic period, ca. early 6th century BCE. A dramatic aryballos in the shape of a lioness's snarling h...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 3rd to 1st century BCE. A large and impressive fragment of a mold-formed head depicting the back of the neck and m...

Magna Graecia, Canosan, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. Standing arm in arm and striding forward, a lovely molded terracotta statue of the romantic lo...

Greece, late Hellenistic period, ca. 1st century BCE. A fabulous ensemble of two circular roundels, each presenting with a raised rim and pale-ora...

Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. An exceptional, finely carved marble Muse standing in contrapposto with her left knee slightly be...

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A hand-carved limestone male youth, standing with elongated arms at his sides recalling Greek ...

Greece, Attic, attributed to the Washing Painter, ca. 480 to 460 BCE. An attractive pelike of a classic form with a characteristically sagging bel...

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful, mold-formed, hollow terracotta standing votive figure depicting a young woman standi...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. A marble sculpture of a thoughtful, standing woman carved in the round, perhaps made ...

Greco-Roman, Hellenistic Period, Tarentum, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. An evocative limestone carving of a warrior who seems to have fallen to his...

Ancient Greece, Classical Period, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A striking core-formed glass alabastron, so named because many vessels th...

Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. Carved in the round, a lovely marble head of a female, perhaps Aphrodite, the goddess of love and...

Ancient Greece, Tanagra, Hellenistic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A hollow, mold-formed terracotta depiction of an elegant female figure, p...

Greece, especially northern Greece, Classical period, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A beautiful, heavy silver fibula (brooch) of arched form, with f...

Roman, ca. 1st century BCE. An important fresco depicting 5 figures in an architectural setting. Alighting from the right, the winged goddess Vict...

Classical World, Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful mold-formed terracotta votive in the form of a youthful female's head. ...

Ancient Europe, Spain, Iberian Peninsula, ca. early 3rd millennium BCE. An intriguing votive idol of a columnar form, hand-carved from white marbl...

Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 5th to 3rd century BCE. A fine, mold-made terracotta votive depicting the head of a bearded male wearing a veil. Scho...

Roman, Julio-Claudian Period, ca. 1st century CE. A sensitively modeled head of a youth - perhaps the child Cupid (Greek counterpart Eros) - with ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A handsome cast bronze patera, a rare find as the handle and bowl are often found separate. Thi...

Roman, Imperial Period, Julio-Claudian Period, ca. 1st Century BCE to 1st Century CE. A Roman marble head of a youthful male with idealized featur...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A beautifully preserved cast bronze chariot attachment in the form of a seated, nude male child...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A beautiful cast-bronze statue of Venus (Greek Aphrodite) as Isis shown standing in an elegant ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A life-like, sensitive portrayal in marble of a child's head, with a sweet visage comprised of heavy-l...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A handsome protome cast from solid bronze depicting a leaping lion with a wavy mane framing his...

Roman, late Republic to early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A fantastical gilded silver roundel with a thin lip of folde...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An exceptional, finely carved marble figure of a goddess, most likely Venus (Greek Aphrodite) -...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An ancient cast bronze right forearm and hand from a figure, perhaps a woman or adolescent give...

Roman, Hellenistic period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A marvelous head of life-size proportions, hand-carved from creamy white marble with natural...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An ancient cast bronze right hand, a votive hand for the Sabazios cult, presenting a dove or ea...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. Carved from a creamy, white marble, this is an interesting sculpture depicting two stages of th...

Roman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. Wow! A stunning marble goat head, carved with full lifelike details: large eyes that would once ...

Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fine repousse panel made of nearly pure (99%) silver sheet depicting Cybele, the Mother Goddes...

Roman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A fascinating, evocative sculpted marble head depicting a woman with enigmatic facial fea...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An exquisite bronze statue of Apollo in the nude standing in contrapposto with his left leg ben...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. A gorgeously-preserved, cast-bronze attachment featuring the bust of a female, perhaps a Maenad, depic...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A miniature but solid cast silver statuette of a male athlete, nude save the cloak draped over ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A skillfully carved classical frieze presenting two heads of Medusa or gorgoneion with acanthus...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A sensitive and lifelike marble portrait of a woman, with lidded and drilled eyes that once wou...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A handsome, lifelike marble head of a horse, depicted with a bridle with headband and noseband....

Roman, Imperial period, ca. 212 to 217 CE. A detailed portrait bust of Emperor Caracalla (formerly Antoninus who ruled from 198 to 217 CE), expert...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A finely carved marble statue of the Venus (Greek Aphrodite) and Cupid (Greek Eros); this is th...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A wonderful solid bronze seated Mercury (Greek Hermes) surrounded by animals associated with th...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A finely carved stone statue of Venus (Greek Aphrodite) - goddess of love and beauty - draped i...