Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. An amazing ensemble of four blue faience jars of various sizes - the smallest with ...

East Greek, Anatolian (Phrygian), ca. 7th to 6th century BCE. A very rare polychrome terracotta vessel presenting nearly identical female faces on...

East Greek, Phrygian, Archaic Period, ca. 7th to 6th century BCE. Wow! An incredible ceramic rhyton in the form of a painted bull's head, with a t...

Greece, Geometric Period, ca. late 8th to early 7th century BCE. A fascinating object, a long bronze stem with the majority of its surface studded...

Greece, Euboea, ca. 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE. An elegant, wonderfully preserved example of a black-figure painted, ceramic trefoil oinoc...

Greece, Classical to early Hellenistic periods, ca. 5th to 2nd century BCE. A beautifully proportioned 98% silver basin or phiale, a special libat...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 3rd century BCE. A charming silver basin or phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine, wit...

Ancient Greece, Athens, attributed to Class of Athens 581, ca. early 5th century BCE. A beautiful black-figure cylindrical lekythos, the central r...

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Group of Palermo 16, ca. 430 to 420 BCE. A very special red-figured lekythos depicting a winged Eros, the god of l...

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Classical Period, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A very large white ground lekythos with a classic form an...

Greece, Attica, attributed to the workshop of the Haimon Painter, ca. early 5th century BCE. A lovely Attic white ground black-figure lekythos pre...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. A massive, heavy, 99% silver bowl, in the form of a mastos or mastoid, a drinking ves...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 4th to 1st century BCE. An elegant 96% silver bowl, in the form of a mastos or mastoid, a drinking vessel sha...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A stunning glazed ceramic cup with convex walls adorned by eleven rows of staggered...

Classical World, Etruria, ca. early 6th century CE. A glossy black pottery kantharos, a drinking cup, of the rare single-handled form. The kanthar...

Ancient Europe, Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. A fabulous wheel-thrown pouring vessel known as an oinochoe with a...

Classical World, Etruria, central Italy, ca. early 5th century BCE. A mesmerizing figural antefix, molded from terracotta to present a beautiful w...

Roman, Republic Period to early Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE. A shallow, heavy, 96% silver bowl, in the form of a mastos...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A stunning glazed ceramic chalice with four rows of staggered pinecone scales (the ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A rare example of a glazed ceramic vessel, mold-made, with a beautiful floral motif in high rel...

Roman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A fabulous mold-formed pottery oil lamp with a circular base boasting a trio of raised, multi-lo...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A fine pottery transport amphora with a narrow conical base, a smooth globular body, rounded sh...

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A mold-formed earthenware relief panel depicting a nude, right-facing ma...

Central Asia, Bactrian, ca. early 1st millennium BCE. A handsome, rare example of a ceramic askos - a vessel with a flat shape and spout at one en...

Western Asia, possibly Bactrian, ca. 1st millennium BCE. A rare, delightful cast bronze pitcher topped by a bull headed spout. The vessel stands o...

Ancient Central Asia, Bactrian, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A breathtaking bowl, hand-carved from a single contiguous piece of banded agate whi...

Southeast Asia, Burma (modern-day Myanmar), Mandalay period, ca. 19th century CE. A beautiful, large-scale Shakyamuni Buddha carved from yellow-wh...

East Asia, China, Later Neolithic Hongshan culture, ca. 3500 to 2500 BCE. Wow! An incredibly rare nephrite jade artifact, a flaring, tubular-shape...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico and Guatemala, Peten Basin, Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 950 CE. An incredible jar with a round, fitted lid, standin...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chongoyape, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous mold-formed brownware pottery bottle with a flat b...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1470 to 1523 CE. A charming hollow-built pottery bottle with a rounded base, a bulbous body, a stirrup-...

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 400 to 800 CE. A rare and interesting blackware ceramic bottle with a stirrup spout, its sid...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A beautiful mold-formed pottery vessel with fine burnishing marks across the exterior. ...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase 3 to 4, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel with a globular body and an integral foot, a ...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 400 to 700 CE. An attractive mold-formed pottery vessel with a flat base, a bulbous body wit...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban IV, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A mold-formed ceramic incensario in the form of a seated god, p...

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz, Mixtec culture, early Post-Classic period, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A beautiful vessel carved from yellow-b...

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Morelos, ca. 1200 to 900 BCE. A pre-Classic pottery Venus figure whistling vessel, contemporary with the Olmec, of an intri...

Pre-Columbian, Panama, Cocle Culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A striking polychrome head effigy vessel, the body in the form of a trophy head with a dr...

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Among the largest Colima flats we have ever seen, a hand-built terracotta standing stat...

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Wow! An incredibly preserved, extremely rare wooden scepter finial. It depict...

Native American, southwest New Mexico, villages in southern Cibola Anasazi / northern Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, ca. 1075 to ...

Native American, northwestern New Mexico, Chaco Canyon, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, ca. 1075 to 1150 CE. A sizable, hand-built pottery p...