A fine low bowl with ringfoot and stamped rosette of Black Glazed ware. Italy, 3rd - 2nd century B.C.

An attractive bowl. Small chip to the glaze at the rim, othervise completely intact!

Size: 13,2 cm. (diameter), 5 cm. tall.

Ex Old German private Collection (1970s)

Interesting grey pottery lamp decorated with a winged Eros atop of spout, Greek hellenistic, 3rd.-2nd. century BC.

Size: c. 108 mm. long.

Condition: Near Very fine, somewhat uncleaned with chip to the spout and wear from use.

Provenance: Bärbel Kasper collection, Germany since 1950.

Larger than usual kylix of Ionian shape showing a deep rounded bowl with high steep rim and slightly tilted handles attached on the belly. The trumpet-shaped foot with flattened resting surface.
The outside of the rim and the handle zone are reserved, as well as the small band inside the lip...

Very tall bottle with elongated foot, tapering body, long thin neck, and bulging rim.
Ceramic
Greek, Hellenistic Period, 4th-2nd century BC
H. 25 cm (9.8 in)
Broken neck reconstituted. Some wear and accretions on the body.
Swiss private collection. Acquired in the German art market, June 2008.

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Native Apulian single-handled jug of globular body, tapering neck and everted rim.
Remains of a brown glaze, standing on a flat base.
Ceramic
Apulian, 3rd century BC
12.5 cm (4.9 in)
Handle restored, glaze worn. Soil deposits in places.
Swiss private collection.

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Black-glazed Apulian plate with gently raised, shallow floor. The low sloping rim with a flat top. Imprint from the foot of another dish and corresponding discoloration on the floor.
Low foot with a bevelled molding at the bottom. Slight fingermarks around the foot where the plate was held for dipping into the black glaze. Covered with a fine black glaze of metallic lustre...

Three unusual large ancient beads from China. Size: See last photo.

DECORATED POTTERY OIL LAMP
HELLENISTIC PERIOD, 3rd Century BC

Dimensions:
Length: 8 cm
Width: 6 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel

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Small stemmed bowl made in grey bucchero. Shallow bowl with incurving rim, set on a flaring foot.
Rasmussen’s vase no. 275. Close in shape and size to Beazley Archive vase no. 9035479.
Ceramic, grey bucchero ware
Etruscan, 600-550 BC
D. 10.3 cm (4.1 in)
H. 5.6 cm (2.2 in)
Excellent quality and condition, with finely smoothed and shiny surface. Reconstituted from two fragments...

Amphora handle with the name of the annual official Pausanias written around the Rhodian rose emblem.
The stamped text reads: ΕΠΙ ΠΑΥΣΑΑΝΙΑ ΣΜΙΝΘΙΟΥ – in the term of Pausanias, in the month Sminthios (March-April).
Three eponyms with the name Pausanias are known from Rhodian amphoras...

Fine Etruscan chalice supported by a tall, slender stem. Three parallel grooves and a sharply cut carination decorate the exterior of the bowl. Robust double molding on the stem, close to the flaring foot. Brilliant black Bucchero pottery with polished surface.
Rare shape commonly associated with the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci.
For a related example in Malibu, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1002468.
Ceramic, Bucchero ware
Etruscan, about 575-550 BC
H...

A nicely carved jade in the form of a stylized turtle in the Han style. Condition:No chips or cracks. Size: See last photo

Four ancient beads from China. These beads date back to around 100 AD to 1000 BC. See photos for sizes. Condition: Some minor chips at the ends from age.

Apulian salt cellar with rounded rim band and concave sided bottom.
Warm brownish gloss with fingermarks around the base, where held during dipping.
Similar bowls are known from southern Italy, notably eastern Lucania, northern Apulia and Campania.
For an Apulian example, close in shape and size, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 9014281.
Ceramic
Apulian, late 4th century BC
D. 6 cm (2.4 in)
H. 4.1 cm (1.6 in)
Intact and fine...

Daunian krater with globular body and short funneled mouth. The vertical loop handles on the shoulder area alternate with two red colored stumps.
Brown-red linear decoration around the body, wavy lines at the handle area, hanging semicircles inside the funnel opening.
One handled reattached with bone glue, a medium that was in use until the 1950s.
For a related example, cf. inv. no. 1912,1220.9 in the British Museum database...

Attic black-figure band cup decorated with a lotus and palmette chain. The reserved tondo with concentric circles, a reserved band close to the inner face of the rim.
The gently rounded floor with a barely offset lip and upturned handles.
For a related cup in Geneva, cf. Beazley archive vase no. 5676.
Ceramic
Athens, 500-480 BC
D. 14 cm (5.5 in)
W over handles 19.2 cm (7.6 in)
H...

Relics of the Nile is pleased to present this nicely-carved and detailed Egyptian wood mask. The facial features on the mask are expertly rendered with a detailed nose with nostrils and a serene expression carved on the lips...

Larger than usual bucchero ware kantharos of canonical shape. The high-swung strap handles attached at the rim and the dented ridge at the join to the straight wall. Standing on a low flared foot. Incised lines just below the rim.
Rasmussen’s type 3e kantharos of the standard coastal type known from workshops in the Etruscan cities of Vulci and Cerveteri.
For similar examples, cf. items 240-242 in: Ines Jucker. Italy of the Etruscans. Mainz 1991.
Ceramic, bucchero ware ...

Rare Chinese Neolithic Pottery Tripod with Oxford TL Test

This fine and interesting pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago during the Chinese Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The form is of a cooking vessel and the three wide udder-shaped legs allow it to be stood in a fire with as much heat as possible being transmitted to its contents. It is not always easy to determine exactly which culture such vessels come from as similar vessels were made by various Chinese cultures. However, we un...

Black glazed pottery lebes with tapering body and raised handles on the rounded shoulder. Thickened rim to accommodate a lid.
Traces of fingertips around the base where the vessel was held to be dipped into the glaze.
Lebes gamikoi were vessels associated with marriage rituals held for both the living and the unmarried deceased.
For the shape, with rounder body, cf. vase no. 4432a 1 in: Jean-Paul Morel. Céramique Campanienne: Les Formes. Rome 1981. Around 300 BC
Cera...

Greek Campanian Black-glazed Dishes, 350-300 BC Black-glazed dishes of shallow form with thick wall and slightly flared base. One with a small offset between the rounded lip and the foot. Shallow rounded floors.
Traces of fingertips around the bases, where held during dipping into the glaze.
Ceramic
Campanian, 350-300 BC
D. 6.3 cm (2.5 in) to 8.1 cm (3.2 in)
Intact. Black glaze with minor surface wear, one dish with peeled off glaze.
Ex Swiss privat...

Corinthian type skyphos of conical form with slightly curved wall. The triangular handles attached below the plain thin rim.
The handle zone decorated with dots, three bands below. Reserved surface is covered with a thin brownish wash.
The flaring ring foot with applied red-brown, single circle and central dot on the reserved bottom.
The shape is a Corinthian creation and also known as kotyle.
Ceramic
Late Corinthian, 550-500 BC
D. 7.4 cm
W. over...

Black-figure depiction of naked youths with clamydes that cover their shoulders and bystanders clad in cloaks. All figures hold spears.
The scene is framed with ivy garlands on the sides and buds alternating with dots on the marked shoulder. A row of tongues emerge from the ridged junction to the neck.
Applied red on the outer edge of the rim and the sideward rotelles, the ridged junction to the neck, the garments and the fillet of one youth. Faded white dot rosettes on some garmen...

A very interesting and rare Egyptian bronze bust with a Pharao raising left arm holding something, c. 2nd.-1st. mill. BC.

Size: 11,6 cm. tall incl. the costum wooden base, c. 6,4 cm. alone.

Condition: Fragmentary as seen in the pictures.

Ex. Private Estate Collection.

A large for type attachment from a brazier, a pottery container for fire, molded within a rectangular framework and set vertically with the head of Silenos, his long full beard extended forward to form support for a vessel.

Size: 14 cm. wide and 12 cm. tall.

Ref: Hayes, John W., Greek and Greek-Style Painted and Plain Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum, 1992 ROM, fig. 247 - 250.

Lovely large vessel with twin, horizontal handles, in a fine style with decorated base, very impresive size, Attic / Corinthian c. 4th. century BC.

Size: 20,8 cm. in diameter over the handles and 11,2 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, intact with lightly irridescent glaze, minor dings and wear to glaze.

Ex. Old German Collection

A beautiful and rare micro blue glass bead necklace from South China. Can be made into two necklaces. Age: 100 BC Size:Total Length 118cm (46 inches)

Thin-walled Attic skyphos with steep walls curving in at the rim. The tilted horizontal handles reserved on the inner side. Standing on a torus base, the underside enhanced with a carefully drawn dot and circle motif.
Ceramic
Greek Attic, 450-425 BC
H. 5 cm (2 in)
W. over handles 11.6 cm (4.6 in)
D. 6.9 cm (2.7 in)
Intact and fine. The brilliant black glaze worn in places.
Ex Galeria M. A. Daneu, Palermo, inv. no. Sca426. Sold April 24, 1962 – w...

Large single-handled cup covered with fine quality black gloss inside and out. The deep bowl with an almost flat, inward sloping rim. Discoloration on the floor with the imprint from the foot of another cup. Standing on a low ring foot with reserved underside.
For a similar cup close in size, cf. item no. 6211a 1 in: Morel 330-300 BC
Ceramic
Greek Campanian, 350-300 BC
D. 14 cm (5.5 in)
W. over handle 17.7 cm (7 in)
H. 5.9 cm (2.3 in)
Intact and ...

Shallow bowl with cut out rim exposing five dovetailed segments. One with two lugs for suspension. Standing on a low stemmed foot.
Fine buff-brown clay covered with brownish glaze. Patches of silvery iridescence inside.
Interesting piece which reminds of examples made in metal.
Ceramic
Etruscan/Campanian, 4th century BC
D. with rim 12.7 cm (5 in)
H. 5.7 cm (2.2 in)
Intact, except for a restored chip out of the foot.
Ex US private collectio...

A beautiful ceramic dish with caligraphy, Nishapur or Samarkand, Samenid Dynasty, Western Asia 9th.-10th. century AD.

Lovely quality for the type with artful black and red caligraphy on a cream-white ground.

Size: 29 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely fine, superb for this rare type and large size. Restored from a very few larger fragments with a very large part of original crackled glaze. See the closeups for the condition of the glaze.

Provenance:...

A rare beautiful ancient Jade and glass bead necklace from Southeast China some dating back over 2,500 years. Size: length 49 cm X 2.(Length 39 inches)

A superb quality and large for type Islamic pottery bowl, ca. 12th century A.D. (494 AH – 597 AH).

Turquoise glazed, pottery bowl with flaring body rising from a short foot. The sides and center carved with a Lotus pattern black markings, all in high relief in the manor of the Seljuqs.

Condition: Superb. Fully iridescent patina in silver and rainbow. Completely intact and uncleaned. Exceptional in hand

Size: 16 cm. wide and approx 9 cm. high.

Proven...

Rare Etruscan neck ring with outwards-turned tapering ends and a belonging fibula.
The grayish patina and the effloresced surface denote that the silver contains additions of other metals like lead and tin.
Neck rings were known from the Celts and also used during the Villanovan period.
Silver
Etruscan, ca. 6th-4th century BC
W. torque 13.8 cm (5.4 in)
L. fibula 9.8 cm (3.85 in)
Torque broken at the thickened lower end and reconstituted. Part of t...

MESOPOTAMIAN POTTERY FIGURE OF A STANDING WORSHIPER
Babylonian period, 1800 BC

Measurements:
Height: 10 cm
Width: 5.5 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm

Condition: Good condition as found

Nicely mounted on a plexi-glass “Lucite” display stand on high quality.

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A 'Nishapur' type of ware, probably made in the Samenid period, c. 10th. century AD.

Highly attractive and rare seen type of vessel with a lovely torquise glaze and two handles.

Size: 14 cm. tall and 13 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice and basically intact with a chip to the footring restored and some minor chips to the glaze of the rim and short hairlines.

Ex. Old Bavarian collection, aquired between 1930s-1970s.