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...

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

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...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1279 to 1213 BCE. A gorgeous mold-formed faience ushabti covered in a clear glaze ...

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, late Naqada II to early Naqada III, ca. 3200 BCE. An elegant jar from pre-dynastic Egypt, hand-carved from pal...

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 ...

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...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A gorgeous necklace displaying dozens of small beads and 4 figural amulets....

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A beautifully preserved faience amulet in the form of an ib...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A gorgeous mold-formed faience ushabti covered in soft green glaze across m...

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, Saite Period, Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (XXVI), ca. 664 to 525 BCE. An excellent example of a well-made faience ushabti, inscribed with ...

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

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 664 BCE. A standing ushabti figure, hand-carved from a creamy-yellow a...

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 945 BCE. A stunning mold-formed faience ushabti enveloped in a brilliant cornf...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1295 to 1070 BCE. A mold-formed faience ushabti covered in a pale blue-gre...

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. ...

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A heavy, well preserved alabastron, meticulously hand-carved from c...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, probably Amarna Period (18th Dynasty), ca. 1352 to 1336 BCE. A wonderfully preserved ceramic vessel in the form of a f...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A striking example of a sarcophagus mask, hand-carved from wheat-hued cedar...

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...

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...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1549 to 1070 BCE. An intriguing votive plumb bob which is mold-formed from faience and envel...

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...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A fabulous mold-formed faience ushabti covered in lustrous layers of soft b...

Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. An elegant necklace composed of ancient beads on a modern string with modern gold-plated clasp: v...

Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305 to 30 BCE. A finely-carved wooden mummy mask with a gilded face and painted gesso details. Crowned by a rectangul...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 30th Dynasties, ca 672 to 343 BCE. A large ancient black glass amulet in the form of a reclining Anubis depic...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. An incredibly rare, hand-carved and painted wood (likely cedar) lidded ...

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...

Egypt, Roman Period, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. A carved marble head of a female, likely Isis given her hair style and the hole atop her head which pr...

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 ...

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...

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...

Ancient Greece, Sub-Mycenaean Period, ca. 1100 to 950 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery pyxis of a squat form with a series of concentric circles surrou...

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

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

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

Greek, Attica, ca. 530s BCE. A very rare black-figure kyathos - a dipper or ladle with a high vertical handle topped by a shell-shaped ornament - ...

Late Roman / early Byzantine period, ca. late 3rd to 5th century CE. A fabulous hollow-cast bronze figurine depicting a recumbent goat with a bulb...

Northwestern Greece, ca. late 6th to 5th centuries BCE. A war helmet made of hammered bronze sheet, with a rectilinear opening for the face, long,...

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...

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...

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...

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic, Greco-Sarmation or Greco-Scythian, ca. 1st century BCE. A brilliant pair of gold earrings (comprised of 85% gold or e...

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

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. 470 to 460 BCE. A very special red-figured lekythos depicting a female goddess, most likely Demeter, dressed i...

Magna Graecia, Campanian, Capua, by a painter of Trendall's AV Group, either the Libation Painter or the Astarita Painter, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A w...

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

Classical World, Italy, Faliscan, ca. late 4th century BCE. A very large - perhaps the largest we have seen in quite some time - and very fine red...