Exceptional Day 1: Antiquities Asian Fine Art

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A stunning bust of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld...

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3650 to 3300 BCE. A gorgeous coil-formed Nile silt pottery vessel with a highly-burnished, russ...

Egyptian, Late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. A stunning and finely-carved wooden statue depicting Nephthys, the goddess of deat...

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 22nd Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 720 BCE. A stunning pair of hand-carved wooden sarcophagus side panels...

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period, late Naqada II to early Naqada III, ca. 3200 BCE. A lovely and large hand-built pottery vessel of an acorn-shap...

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3650 to 3300 BCE. A lovely pottery vessel with a highly-burnished, russet hued surface made with...

Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic to Old Kingdom, 1st to 6th Dynasty, ca. 3100 to 2181 BCE. An elegant and very early example of impressive Egyptian l...

Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic, First to Second Dynasty, ca. 3000 to 2686 BCE. A stunning example of a greywacke bowl, dark grey and with wonderful...

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic period, Naqada II, ca. 3400 to 3300 BCE. A beautiful hand-built pottery vessel with a petite, flat base, an acorn-shap...

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3400 to 3200 BCE. A stunning jar of a squat size, hand-carved from mottled dark orange-brown gr...

Egypt, early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th century BCE. The upper part of a faience votive statue of Taweret. Taweret, "The Great Female One", is a bl...

Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom, 3rd to 6th Dynasty, ca. 2686 to 2181 BCE. A beautiful offering cup of a petite size, hand-carved from speckled diorite...

Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 12th to 14th Dynasty, ca. 2055 to 1650 BCE. A lovely pair of finely cast, high quality gold (94% gold, equivalent to 22K+) ...

Egyptian, Middle Kingdom, XII Dynasty to early XIII Dynasty, ca. 1938 to 1700 BCE. A miniature kohl jar, finely carved from pale blue marble (anhy...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. An absolutely incredible cosmetic palette, hand-carved from a warm, creamy brown breccia, with a...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom period, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1077 BCE. A stunning ushabti carved from creamy yellow alabaster with natural...

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 21st to 25th Dynasty, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A fabulous cast-bronze figure of Osiris, the Egyptian god of ...

Egypt, Late Period, 26th to 30th Dynasties, ca. 672 to 343 BCE. A striking Egyptian polychrome wood bust from an anthropoid sarcophagus of a woman...

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. An incredibly striking and rare opaque sky blue glass bowl, probably made for holding con...

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. A wearable necklace composed of ancient Egyptian carnelian and jasper seed beads and seve...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th to 20th Dynasty, ca. 1550 to 1069 BCE. A stunning and skillfully-carved upper section of a coffin lid depicting a...

Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. An ever watchful pair of ancient bronze and alabaster eyes and eyeb...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A stunning cast-bronze statue of Sekhmet (occasionally Sakhmet, literally "...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1549 to 1292 BCE. A fabulous cup of a petite size formed from paste glass (known as frit) of a stunn...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279 to 1213 BCE. A fine votive plaque of a small size, hand-carved from chalk...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A beautiful jar of a petite size, hand-carved from honey-yellow alabaster w...

Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. A large and exceptionally rare mold-formed ushabti made from faience and covered in a wine-hued purple...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A delicate blown glass bowl - shallow, standing on a delicate ring foot, with inwardl...

Egypt, Ptolemaic to Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A fabulous and finely-preserved jar which has been meticulously carved f...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A fine cast-bronze sculpture depicting a large cluster of grapes, of a rough diamond-...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 to 525 BCE. A beautiful mold-formed faience ushabti covered in pale turquoise-hued glaze. The f...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A handsome cartonnage panel from a sarcophagus depicting two and a ...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A beautiful mold-formed faience ushabti colored in reflective layers of gre...

Graeco-Egyptian, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. Expertly carved from beautiful banded alabaster, an elegant vessel presenting an inverted piriform bo...

Egyptian, Late Period to Early Ptolemaic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A monumental carved limestone head from a relief or the lid of an anthropoid...

Egypt, Ptolemaic to early Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 332 BCE to first half of 1st century CE. A stunning ensemble of exquisite and exceedingly ra...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A beautiful votive plaque comprised of an upper gold register (75% gold, equivalent to 1...

Greece, Cycladic culture, probably Early Cycladic, ca. 3200 to 2800 BCE. A really fine example of a famous and rare ancient form, the kandila. Thi...

Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A beautiful vessel known as an alabastron, of an elongated teardrop form, hand-carved from ho...

Greek, Early Spedos, Early Cycladic II, ca. 2600 to 2500 BCE. Finely carved from marble, this is the U-shaped head of a Spedos figure. The low rel...

Ancient Europe, Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, late Geometric Period, ca. 725 to 700 BCE. A fabulous bronze horse bit comprised of two length...

Eastern Greece, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A terracotta corner from a coffin or similar large square-cornered item. Painted on the corner is the ...

Ancient Greece, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A hollow-molded terracotta alabastron depicting a female kore, standing barefoot atop an inte...

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIA2, ca. 1375 to 1300 BCE. A gorgeous and sizable wheel-thrown pottery jar with a petite flared foot, a...

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean Period, Late Bronze Age, ca. 14th to 13th century BCE. A lovely wheel-thrown bi-chrome pottery cup with a planar base, a...

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200 to 1100 BCE. An enormous wheel-thrown pottery storage jug with a narrow circular base, a r...

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean, Middle Helladic II to Late Helladic II, ca. 1900 to 1400 BCE. A lovely wheel-thrown pottery bowl with tall walls that t...

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Late Cypriot III, ca. 1200 to 1050 BCE. A gorgeously preserved, wheel-thrown terracotta amphora with a protruding ring foo...

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Late Cypriot III, ca. 1200 to 1050 BCE. A fine wheel-thrown terracotta amphora of a substantial size with a protruding rin...

Greek, Boeotian, Archaic Period, ca. 575 to 550 BCE. A wonderful hand-built terracotta horse vessel with a filler hole emerging from its back, sta...

Greek, Boeotian, ca. 575 to 550 BCE. A wonderful hand-built terracotta horse and rider of a characteristically abstract style. Both the rider and ...

Greece, Tanagra, Boeotia, ca. 450 BCE. A pair of identical, large, lovely wheel-thrown kantharoi, each with finely-shaped strap handles, a deep in...

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean Period, Late Helladic III, ca. 1400 to 1300 BCE. A lovely wheel-thrown pottery amphora with a petite circular foot, a sp...

Ancient Greece, Attic, Haimon Group, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. A quite sizeable Attic black-figure skyphos decorated with four horses steered by...

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Manner of the Princeton Painter, ca. 540 to 520 BCE. A marvelous belly amphora, decorated via the black-figure tec...

Ancient Greece, Athens (Attic), Attributed to the Painter of Athens 1826, ca. 460 to 450 BCE. A fabulous Attic white ground lekythos depicting a t...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 5th century BCE. A beautiful Attic kylix, a cup for drinking wine. It is a wide, shallow, wheel thrown vessel with a l...

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. An exquisite twisted gold bracelet with finely delineated lion head finials. The gold is ...

Greece, Athens (Attic), ca. 5th Century BCE. An exceptional red figure stemmed kylix with twin upraised loop handles attached to a shallow bowl su...

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,...