Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A free-blown, translucent glass bottle of an elegant piriform shape and pale green hues, with t...

Roman, Late Imperial Period, ca. 5th century CE. An incredibly tall glass footed vessel comprised of nearly colorless glass - though with a tinge ...

Roman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A beautiful bowl of a thick-walled composition made from pale aqua-hued glass...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE (2 cobalt blue examples). Near East, Holy Land, Byzantine, ca. 8th to 10th century CE (larger br...

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 magnificent pair of gold earrings from ancient Rome (comprised of 80% gold or the equivalent ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. first half of the 3rd century CE. A hammered sheet-bronze standard of a triangular form depicting four registers of an...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fantastic collection of 20 mosaic glass fragments and 3 intact beads. Five fragments of a dee...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. Wow! A stunning, elegant necklace composed of a high quality gold (91%, the equivalent of 21 ka...

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, the Levant, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A spectacular mosaic comprised of square stone tesserae depicting the faces of...

Roman, early Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A fabulous free-blown cup made from near-opaque, cobalt-blue glass with a rounded base and smoot...

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. 1st to 2nd century CE. A gorgeous utilitarian bottle of a sizable form, mold-formed from pale blue-green glass, upon a...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A lovely ensemble of precious gold jewelry from ancient Rome. First, a gold ring with an impres...

Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. An ornate, openwork high quality gold (95.5% or equivalent to 22K+) ring with a large, ban...

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 2nd century CE. An exceedingly rare parade mask of a cavalry officer modeled to the likeness of the owner, with...

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. 2nd century CE. A matching pair of fierce, cast bronze chariot fittings, each with projecting swan heads rising in sin...

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. 2nd to 4th century CE. A fine cast-copper disc with wonderful figural details brought forth in repousse. The obverse f...

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...

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...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A fantastically preserved cast bronze weight depicting the goddess Fortuna (Cybele) on the back...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. An elegant, cast bronze oil lamp with an elongated body with a magnificent lion-head finial on the han...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A wonderful leaded bronze statue of Cupid (Greek Eros) - the god of love - presented in a dynam...

Roman, the Levant, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. Impressive on so many levels, this mosaic presents a portrait of a handsome ma...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A beautiful foil panel of hammered tinned-bronze with intricately-engraved detailing. The recta...

Roman, later Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. A trio of tinned bronze panels - each thin enough that they may be referred to as bronze ...

Roman, the Levant, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. A wonderful stone mosaic depicting an antlered stag in profile with laid back ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. Skillfully carved in the round, a cherubic youth - nude and 'fleshy'- standing and motioning toward h...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. An elegant free-blown glass jar of a pale sage-green hues with a concave base and rough pontil ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 4th century CE. An elegant and sizable flask, mold-formed from semi-translucent, pale blue-green glass with a s...

Roman, the Levant, late Imperial Period, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. An incredible mosaic depicting a nude male torso, perhaps belonging to a hero ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A pair of gorgeous cast-bronze chariot fittings, each with a large, round socket, and symmetric...

Roman, late Imperial Period, ca. 4th century CE. A beautiful cup of a petite form, free-blown from semi-translucent aqua-hued glass. The cup is de...

Roman, Lebanon, possibly Tyrenean, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A miniature Janus-headed, finely mold-blown glass vessel representing two heads of a...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. An elegant hammered bronze strigil created from a single sheet of bronze with a wide, concave, ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. A handsome, large marble table leg, also known as a trapezophoron, with a giant clawed foot, leg joint...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. mid-3rd century CE. A handsome head carved from pale-yellow marble of a veristic presentation depicting a middle-aged ...

Eastern Roman Empire, Eudocia, wife of Theodocius II, Died in 460 CE. Constantinople Mint. Gold solidus. Obverse: AEL EVDO - CIA AVG, diademed, dr...

Late Roman Imperial/early Byzantine period, ca. 4th to 6th century CE. An attractive cast-leaded-brass oil lamp attached to a separately-cast trip...

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

Islamic Europe, Iberian Peninsula, Almohad Caliphate to Nasrid Dynasty-era, ca. 12th to 14th century CE. One of my absolute favorites, a gorgeous ...

Near East / Turkey, Anatolia, late Neolithic to Chalcolithic Period, ca. 6000 to 3000 BCE. Hand-carved from a coarse cream-colored stone, this is ...

Ancient Western Europe, Celtic-Roman border region, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A stunning forged-carbon-steel dagger blade of an elegant presentat...

Ancient Central Europe, Danube River Basin, Hallstatt culture, Iron Age, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A finely-preserved example of a hammered-bronze situl...

Western Europe, Celtic peoples, ca. 2nd century BCE. A stunning - and I mean STUNNING - pair of matching Celtic glass bracelets - each one a conve...

Southwestern Europe / Iberian Peninsula, Spain or Portugal, Visigoths, ca. 550 to 600 CE. A striking, large bronze belt buckle, its surface decora...

Northern Europe, Viking / Norse culture, ca. 10th century CE. An exquisite ensemble of jewelry that includes a matching silver torc (torq, torque)...

Northern Europe, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. An incredible long, knitted silver chain ending in two cast terminals with small sta...

Northern Europe, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 8th to 11th century CE. A gorgeous arm band formed from a single elongated sheet of high-grade (98.5...

Northern Europe, Viking or Norse culture, ca. 8th to 11th century CE. A stunningly beautiful pendant of a massive size, crafted from high-grade (9...

Ancient Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Middle Uruk Period, ca. 3700 to 3500 BCE. An abstract carved marble figure with a flat body surmoun...

Ancient Near East, Tel Brak, modern day Syria, Late Uruk Period, ca. 3300 to 3000 BCE. Hand-carved using drills and string cutting from a mottled,...

Ancient Near East, Northern Syria, Syro-Hittite, ca. early 2nd millennium BCE. A finely-constructed pottery figure of the goddess Astarte. She sta...

Near East, Syro-Hittite, ca. 2800 to 1500 BCE. A striking, abstract pottery figure of the goddess Astarte, with a simple physical form on the lowe...

Ancient Western Asia, Anatolia, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. A creamy brown marble idol of the kilia (kiliya) variety from the Cycla...

Ancient Near East, Anatolia, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. An incredibly preserved Kusura-type - also known as violin type - marble i...