Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

Egyptian, Late Dynastic Period to Ptolemaic, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A gorgeous gilded cartonnage sarcophagus mask displaying qui...

Egyptian, Saite Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. A dramatic sarcophagus mask carved from cedar (or possibly sycamore) wood and presenting...

Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, Dynasties 22 to 26, ca. 945 to 525 BCE. A solid, leaded bronze ibis head delineated with incised eyes an...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1069 BCE. A hand-carved and hand-painted wooden boat with three oarsmen! The men at the front and rear end...

Greece, Corinth, ca. 6th century BCE. A massive handled phiale or libation bowl, standing on a wide, round, disc foot. A magnificent black figure ...

Ancient Greece, late Archaic to early Classical period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A striking cast-bronze griffin head with an openwork mouth mea...

Ancient Greece, Athens, Attic, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. A very fine Attic lekythos painted via the red-figure technique with a figur...

Mediterranean Greek world, Cyprus, Classical Period, ca. 5th century CE. An incredibly rare cast bronze applique in the form of a bull skull, its ...

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Late Bronze to Early Iron Age, Late Cypriot III, ca. 1200 to 1175 BCE. Full of personality, a Cypriot wheel made white pai...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. early 5th century BCE. A beautiful black-figure, white ground lekythos - a vessel used to hold perfumes or other scent...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 325 to 300 BCE. A sizeable bell krater painted with a rich red-figure iconographic program. Side A depict...

Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. A statuesque mold-made terracotta female - perhaps Harmonia given her serpentine necklace - standi...

Ancient Greece, Classical Period, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A beautiful example of a core-formed glass amphoriskos once used to hold scented oil...

Ancient Greece, Late Classical period, ca. mid 4th century BCE. A fabulous cast-bronze box mirror of a circular form with a form-fitting lid on th...

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, Canosa, ca. 3rd century BCE. An outstanding Canosan seated equestrian figure, possibly a warrior, with wide...

Roman, late Republic to early Imperial Period, ca. late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE. A stunning opaque mosaic glass vessel of a tradit...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A Roman Giallo Antico marble herm head of Bacchus (Greek Dionysos), god of wine, theatre, and rapture,...

Magna Graecia, Apulia, ca. 4th century BCE. A beautiful red-figure skyphos featuring a winged Eros, the god of love, standing in contrapposto, tur...

Roman, Imperial period, ca. 1st century CE. A stunning mosaic glass pyxis with both the lid and the cylindrical body formed from glass canes of va...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fascinating cast-bronze situla with a cylindrical body with deep horizontal ribs. A pair of f...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 2nd century CE. A fabulously-preserved, cast-leaded-bronze bust of a youthful female, perhaps a maenad, depicted weari...

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

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

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

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

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, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A stunning ceremonial axe made from copper and cast in separate pieces via the lost wax (cire perdue) m...

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamian, ca. 2400 to 600 BCE (toward the earlier years of this period). Given that very little painting from Mesopotamia h...

Ancient Near East, Anatolian, ca. 2nd to 1st millennium BCE. A handsome cast bronze protome in the form of an elongated bull head and neck with a ...

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. A beautiful stamp seal which is carved from banded agate of gorgeous espresso, coff...

Old World, Acheulean tradition, found in LeGrand-Pressigny, France , ca. 450,000 to 250,000 years ago. A fine, large example of an Acheulean hand ...

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A wonderful female figure, hand-carved from deer bone or that of another ...

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, Lemon-Carro, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. An incredibly rare artifact, a jade-like creamy white stone spoon for use in the ta...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. An endearing pair of high quality, solid silver (85% to 92% silver) monkeys presenting...

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Mochica, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A spectacular gold scepter finial comprised of 82% gold (equivalent to 18K+) depictin...

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A stunning headdress pin, formed from 61% gold (equivalent to 14K+ gold), with a fan-sh...

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Sinu, ca. 1000 CE. A fabulous finial comprised of 61% gold (equivalent to 14K+ gold) depicting a kneeling shaman or caziq...

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 1000 CE. A beautiful rattle bracelet known as a "sonajero" shaped from a thin sheet of 76%...

Europe, German Empire, ca. 1903 to 1905 CE. A massive - over a foot tall - gilded silver tankard, a gift from Kaiser Wilhelm II to his chef. The t...