Carved in black stone with a winged deity between horned animals, fishes and a Scorpion, Kingdom of the Mitanni, 15th - 14th cent BC.
Finely composed and engraved in drill style.
Size: 19 mm. tall and 11 mm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine.
Provenance: Old German collection of fine cylinder seals, Karl Müller, 1950-1977.
PAINTED POTTERY SET "SPOUTED JUGLET AND BOWL
Greek - Hellenistic period, 330 - 100 BC
Dimensions:
Jar:
Height: 10.5 cm
Diameter: 8 cm
Height on stand: 13 cm
Bowl
Hight: 5 cm - Diameter: 12 cm - Height on stand: 8.5 cm
Condition: Repaired and restored
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
Antiquities are valuable because of their historical and cultural values and especially because of their provenance in the...
POTTERY PERFUME JAR
HOLY LAND – ROMAN “HERODIAN DYNASTY”
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
37 BC – 70 AD
Time of Jesus and King Herod the Great
Nicely made in a globular body with a shaped neck and handle
Dimensions:
Height: 13.5 cm
Diameter: 9 cm
Height on stand: 17 cm
Condition: Some professional restoration
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Roman period, 100 – 300 AD
Globular body with a concave base
“Would have been used to carry perfumed oils and ointments”
Dimensions:
Height: 7.5 cm
Diameter: 5.5 cm
Condition: Good condition with beautiful patina as found
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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BURNISHED POTTERY PERFUME JAR
Holy Land, Canaanite, Middle Bronze Age 1850 - 1550 BC
Time of Abraham"
Nicely made with a shaped neck and a little round base with remains of ancient paint pigment on the body.
Dimensions:
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 7 cm
Height on stand: 11.5 cm
Condition: Good condition as found
Found in Samaria north of Jerusalem, Israel
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POTTERY SAUCER OIL LAMP
Biblical, Iron Age II, 900 – 586 BC
“Time of Kings of ancient Israel”
A charming wheel-made reddish pottery saucer oil lamp with a pinched spout and a base
Measurements:
Length: 13 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Condition: Minor ancient chip at the rim otherwise intact and in good condition.
Found in Jerusalem, Holy Land
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Attic squat lekythos of ovoid body decorated with a net motif in black and crème.
The lekythos belongs to the Attic Bulas Group, which manufactured small vases. As a characteristic of the Bulas Group, the net ornament is applied directly on the clay ground.
The rim and the upper portion of the handle are glazed black; the reserved neck with black lines and vertical tongues in applied white.
The edge of foot with tiny black dots.
For a related example, cf...
Greek black-glazed skyphos with high swelling body and plain rim. Fairly wide base with low, bulged foot. Two round-sectioned handles applied horizontally to the exterior of the rim.
Underside with two circles and dot, reserved surface with a dull red wash.
Close in shape and size to skyphos no. 80 in: J. W. Hayes...
Attractive black-glazed oinochoe with trefoil spout and arched handle. The neck area decorated with grape bunches alternating with tendrils. Black glaze turned red-brown in places. Standing on a small ring foot.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase no. 1001099.
Ceramic
Apulian, Knudsen Group, 320-300 BC
H. 10.8 cm (4.3 in)
Traces of fingertips around the ring foot. Intact and fine. Black glaze turned red-brown in places...
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...
Italo-Geometric vessel with incurving rounded bowl. The thickened rim enhanced with red-brown bands and strokes. Star design on the inside floor.
Ceramic
Italo-Geometric, Etruscan, 7th century BC
D. 12.7 cm (5 in)
H. to rim 5 cm (2 in)
Intact and fine. Minor wear and chipping.
Swiss private collection, acquired in the German art market in February 2010.
The authenticity of the object is unconditionally guaranteed.
Large skyphos with tapered body, rounded shoulder and straight lip. Oblique handles on the shoulder, standing on a ring base. Hard-fired ceramic decorated with horizontal bands of reddish glaze. Groups of wavy lines on the reserved handle zone.
Orientates on cups of the Thapsos Class and derived types.
For a related example, cf. Beazley Archive vase 9008878.
Etruscan, Italo-Geometric, 700-650 BC
Ceramic
H. 11 cm (4.3 in), D. rim 13 cm (5.1 in)
W...
Translucent, pale green glass with seven vertical ribs along the piriform body.
Small constriction at the join to the cylindrical neck. The flared mouth with inward folded rim...
Discus fragment of a lamp decorated with the half-figure of a satyr holding a thyrsus and blowing a flute. The youthful figure wears a deer skin with the hooves of the animal knotted behind his shoulder.
Rare depiction. Detailed rendering of the head and the anatomical details...
Native Apulian jug of globular body with tapering neck, everted rim and strap handle. The body, the neck and the outside of the base with circumferential bands of brown glaze. Top of the rim and outside of the handle also glazed. Standing on a flat disk base.
The Messapians were a South Italian tribe settled in the Salento area. Related to the Peucetes and the Daunians they belonged to the group of the Iapyges. These populations created important urban centers and had rather difficult rel...
Choice red-ware rim fragment featuring a beautifully detailed lion. The feline approaches with a forward-turned front body.
The head with delicate detail and a shaggy mane. Shaggy strands on the elbow joint.
Excellent modeling of the musculature and great rendering of the panther-like fur pattern depicted with tiny circles.
For almost the same lion on an Orpheus bowl, cf. 1981.658 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
For a discussion of the bowl, cf. pp. 230-231, pl. 32 in: Annewies van den ...
Wheel-made hemispherical bowl on a ring base, the outer surface covered with a dark brown slip.
Twin cylindrical horizontal rim lugs, incised grooves to the outer rim. Although wheel-made the rim is slightly askew.
From the collection of Desmond Morris (*1928), important collector and editor of The Art of Ancient Cyprus, Oxford 1985.
Old inventory number (344) written under the base.
Ceramic
Cypriot, Cypro-Geometric, ca. 850-750 BC
D. rim 12 cm (4.7 in)
...
24 different images of Turkish costume from Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Turks
pub by John Murray London 1814. Old hand colouring on aquatint engravings, paper watermarked J. Whatman
Turkey Mill. Price is for whole set of 24 images