Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog

A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’ Grey schist India 3rd - 4th Centuries AD SIZE: 19cm high, 11cm wide, 12.5cm deep - 7½ ins high, 4¼ ins wide, 5 ins deep References Pratap...

A Rare and Finely Detailed Greek Bronze Statuette of an Actor with Large Phallus Bronze Greek First half of 4th Century BC Size: 10.5cm high - 4¼ ins high Provenance: Ex Privat...

A Hellenistic Funerary Stele in High Relief with Two Male Heads Marble Greek Hellenistic Circa 2nd Century BC Size: 20.5cm high, 38cm wide, 11cm deep - 8 ins high, 15 ins wide, 4...

A Very Rare and Early Northwest Coast Maternity Figure Aged patina through handling Wood Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka ‘wakw’) Northwest Coast America / Nootka 19th Century SIZE: 20cm high - 8 ins high PROVENANCE: Adam Prout, UK Ex Private collection The elegant seated female figure holds her baby upon her knees, cradling the suckling infant’s head. The female figure displays a very distinctive ‘conical’ shaped hair-style, although the domed forehead, which was flattened artificially, was practiced by the Kosimo (Salish). The Kwakiutl are one of several indigenous First Nations that inhabit the western coast of British Columbia, Canada, from central and northern Vancouver Island to the adjacent mainland coast. The Kwakwaka'wakw, or ‘Kwak´wala-speaking people’, live along the Pacific Northwest coast of British Columbia. The tribes once numbered twenty-eighty, who lived on northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland. They are known for the ‘potlatch’ ceremony which in Kwak'waka literally means ‘to give’. The ceremony marks all the important moments in the life of the Kwakwaka’wakw: birth, marriage and death in particular. It is a jubilant celebration organised by the chief of a tribe or a host, during which offerings are offered, masks exhibited and dances staged. Much of our early knowledge about the Kwakiutl is attributed to Franz Boas...

An Anatolian Marble ‘Star Gazer’ Figure Marble Anatolian Early Bronze Age / Circa 2700 - 2100 BC Size: 5cm high, 3cm wide - 2 ins high, 1¼ ins high The highly stylised oval head wi...

An Openwork Copper Alloy Garment Pin Superb colour and patina Bronze Eastern Iran or Central Asia 2000 BC SIZE: 35cm wide - 13¾ ins wide A similar pin in the Louvre-France, was exh...

A fine and rare !9th Century hand carved antique treen bootjack, to remove riding boots, in the unusual form of a pistol. This is a rare find and unfolds to form a bootjack with be...

Ancient Greek mould-made terracotta antefix decorated with the female head of the Goddess Artemis Bendis. Western Greek, Italy, Taranto, early 4th century BC. Two small feathered win...

This fine masterpiece is quite unusual and is in unbelievable condition. This is a fragile and amazing oil lamp with a handblown original glass globe. The condition is very good.

super rare and historic example of Cyprus stone carving, made by jewish holocaust surviver that was Detained at the Internment camps in Cyprus, just 3 years after the holocaust. this piece is very unusual, most of this carvings shows us aspects of living in the Refugee camps or zionist views of israel, sometimes they even made judaica objects like menorahs Or Candlesticks, but its rare to find memorial plaques such as the example in front of us, the plaques was Damaged In the way to israel and two pieces from the upper section were broken off, the middle part of the Plaque shows a Scroll shaped memorial plaque with the inscription : "for the dead who died on the name of god" In red color, the middle has a yellow star carved and painted, just like the yellow star jewish...

We are delighted to offer for sale this hand carved in sycamore wood printing block with double flower detail This piece is part of a suite, I ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this hand carved in sycamore wood printing block with blue flower detail This piece is part of a suite, I ha...