Circa Early Bronze Age II, 2700-2400 BC. A blackware pottery vessel with sloping body, two lug handles and a pointed bottom. The two lug handles would have been used to hang this vessel from a wall. A method of early storage. Ancient Western Anatolia is famous for a number of large ruins, most notably Troy (Hisarlik), but many mysteries of this lost culture remain. The Yortan culture is known through a burial site in the valley of Bakir Cai that has not been well-studied. Adults and children are buried, crouched, in large terracotta storage containers; around them were placed a great deal of pottery in the form of jugs, jars, and occasionally bowls, much of it blackware just like these examples.Size: L:90mm / W:60mm ; 90gProvenance: Property of a UK Ancient Art Gallery, formerly in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feuer, NY., acquired 1970s - 1980s.
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Circa 1200 BC - 700 BC. A bronze dagger blade with prominently curved guard, which extends out from the ricasso of the pointed blade and partly frames the hilt, thick midrib extending slightly above the ricasso where it held the hilt. See similar swords in Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.99-100. Size: L:410mm / W:70mm ; 335g. Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.
Circa 1200 BC - 700 BC A long bronze spear head with a tapered double edge and central blood ridge, a long thick tapering tang. Good patination. A custom-display stand. Size: L:390mm / W:60mm ; 235g. Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.
Circa 8000-6000 BC. Made of dense gray-brown diorite. Boat-shaped with a blade higher than a butt. The sides carved leaving a wing-like decoration. Middle part with vertical shaft-hole. Blade and shaft-hole are finely polished. Drilled from both ends, leaving horizontal parallel. The Neolithic period was the last stage of Stone Age and is characterized by the use of ground or polished stone weapons, tools and implements.The Neolithic tools & weapons: axes and hammers, adzes and chisels, knives and scrapers, sickle and hoe were used for cereal cultivation and animal domestication.The Chalcolithic (or Eneolithic) era marks a transition period to the Bronze Age with the introduction of Bronze metallurgy. In Europe the arrival of bronze tools and weapons did not play a noticeable role in production for household or military craft. Stone still was used for implements or battle weapons. Many of them were multi-purpose tools that could be used as hoes, working axes, adzes, chisels and battle axes depending of the method of fastening the haft. P. V. Glob's classical book Danske Oldsager II. Yngre Stenalder gives a comprehensive overview on the Northern European New Stone Age. Size: L:34mm / W:60mm ; 463g. Provenance: From a private collection; previously bought by Dolf Aaij in Ancient Art Gallery Strombroek in Amsterdam, in 2005.
Han Dynasty, Circa 202 BC - 220 AD An elegant Han Dynasty greyware Hu vessel. The simple vessel is decorated on the shoulders opposite sides with moulded taotie masks and a ring. Lightly incised grooves run around the vessel. It has a plain rim, large bulbous body, and stands on a raised integral base, with original bulbous shaped lid. The taotie is a motif commonly found on early Chinese ritual bronze vessels: the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and possibly further back to Neolithic times. It typically consists of a frontal zoomorphic mask, with a pair of raised eyes and no lower jaw area. This shape is known as ‘hu’: a vase of baluster-shape, copied from bronze vessels. The form is characterised by a pear-shaped body, which continues upwards in a curve towards a generous opening. Size: L:460mm / W:260mm ; 5.7kg. Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Circa 1200 – 1000 BC A gorgeous example of a cast-bronze short sword formed a double-edged blade, with a tapering profile, running from tip to tang, and a pointed tip that mastered in thrusting or stabbing attacks. The ring handle is capped with an elaborate penannular pommel bearing a decorative knob. Size: L:365mm / W:45mm ; 365g. Provenance: From a private collection; previously bought by Dolf Aaij in Ancient Art Gallery Strombroek in Amsterdam, in 2005.
Circa 800 BC. A finely modelled set of three European cast bronze leaf-shaped spearheads with decorated hollow handles depicting linear and diamond decoration featuring a short socket and a raised mid-rib. Spearheads of similar features have been recovered in Middle Bronze Age Europe. Although some Bronze Age spearheads were intended for practical use as weapons in war and hunting, archaeologists believe that some were designed exclusively as religious offerings. Spearheads of all types were attached into long handles modelled in of ash or pinewood, with those functioning as votive offerings usually thrown into bodies of water. Size: L:Set of 3; 110-140mm / W:30-40mm ; 290g. Provenance: Private London collection, acquired in 2002 in Vienna; formerly in 1980s - 2000s Austrian collection.
An antique oriental bronze mythical figure, with scrolled tail, standing holding hat and sceptre, 13cm high, and an eastern Jambiya style dagger with wooden handle and metal scabbard, together with a painted wood model of the Virgen del Carmen and an oriental embroidered silk 'opera sleeves' panel (4)
Martin Jennings RSS (British, b. 1952), bronze Maquette of Sir Archibald Mindoe, Edition 7/30, marked MJ 7/30 PE to plinth base, 31.4cm highSir Archibald McIndoe (1900-1960) was a New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. His radical methods of treatment were aimed at healing severe burns alongside supporting crew members to recover both socially and emotionally. His patients formed The Guinea Pig Club while in hospital; this was designed to provide social support and aid rehabilitation.Acquired from Gallery Pangolin, Stroud, 2013.
A bronze bust and a bronze Grand Tour vessel, the bust on a fixed socle and depicting The Duke of Wellington, designed by Carlo Marochetti, the reverse signed 'C. Marochetti pubd. Novbr 4th 1852', height 11.5cm, the Grand Tour vessel of ovoid form and featuring a handle modelled as a finger, height 10cm Condition Report: Overall in good order. The bronze bust of Wellington - the inscription to the reverse is indistinct. Otherwise in good order, The brass vessel is slightly misshapen to upper rim although this could have occured at time of manufacture, some typical and minor surface wear overall.
A far eastern bronze metal seated deity, height 14cm; together with a Chinese footed brush washer, and one other Chinese glazed stoneware bowl on tripod base (3)Condition report: Chinese footed brushwasher has hairline crack whole length restoration to base. Bronze coloured deity fading and chipping, wearing. Stoneware bowl on tripod base appears to have no damage or repair.
An interesting selection of decorative items to include a Chinese silver-plated pot-and-cover mounted with a fragment of 18th century Chinese blue-and-white porcelain; a seated bronze Buddha; a smaller interesting pearlware figure of a lady; an early 20th century Japanese bullet-shaped pottery teapot decorated with peach blossom; a small Russian papier-mâché box; a small selection of silver and silver-plated teaspoons and a wooden inkwell carved as a fox's head
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