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Pair of Wooden Japanese Temple Figures, Nio
Located in Palm Desert, CA
These are Japanese Nio, figures that were placed outside Buddhist temples, on each side of the entrance, to ward off evil spirits, demons, and thieves from the late Muromachi to earl...
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Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood
Bronze Age Spear
Located in London, GB
A beautiful bronze spearhead with a leaf-shaped blade, pronounced midrib and a hollow, rounded shaft decorated with diamond shapes on each side and incised hatching along the edges. ...
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Veracruz Mexico Pre-Columbian ceramic Warrior figure sculpture
Located in Hudson, NY
Figure of a Chanting Warrior
Ceramic with bitumen highlights
300-600 CE (Classic Period)
Mexico, Veracruz, possibly Nopiloa
Veracruz Culture
Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Vera Cruz culture...
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ceramic
Extremely Large Megalodon Shark Tooth Fossil
Located in London, GB
This exceedingly large and beautifully preserved serrated tooth would have once lined the mouth of a big Megalodon shark (Carcharocles megalodon).
The mightiest and most terrifying ...
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Athlete bust - Headless torso, Ist-IIIrd s.ap.J-C, white marble, antiquities
Located in Geneva, CH
Athlete bust - Headless torso, Ist-IIIrd s.ap.J-C, white marble, antiquities
White marble
Provenance :
Private collection
Collection of Mrs Labanowsky (by descent since more than t...
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Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
4th Century Gandhara head of a merchant on black stone
Located in Recoleta, CABA
Acquired in the 1970s from the Argentine ambassador in Pakistan.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
The Largest Known Egg
Located in London, GB
An exceptional, intact example of an Aepyornis maximus egg, with a creamy white and beautifully preserved stippled surface. Also known as elephant bird, the now extinct Aepyornis was...
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Roundel depicting St. Catherine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Gouache, ink gold wash and gold burnishing on vellum
Book of Hours folio from the Circle of Coetivy Master
Literature: Cleveland Museum of Art
Blackburn Col...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Gouache, Pigment
Natural Freeform Gogotte Formation Sculpture
Located in London, GB
This arresting and whimsical gogotte was finely modelled by the movement of silica-rich water through loose sand near Fontainebleau, France. It derives its nickname “Guetteur” (“Look...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Sandstone
Ancient Etruscan Archaic Bronze Discus Thrower
Located in London, GB
A remarkably fine example of Archaic sculpture. A figure of a discophoros, or discus bearer, standing with his right leg forward, gripping a discus in his right hand, the left arm r...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Roman Polychrome Fresco Fragment
Located in London, GB
This polychrome wall painting fragment depicts trailing white, black and cream tendrils and vegetal motifs.
Frescoes are the best-preserved form of Roman painting. Aimed at decorat...
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Henri Matisse "La Capeline de paille d'Italie"
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Lithographs, 1923,
45x40 cm, image; 57x46 cm, sheet size.
Signature: Lower right signed by the artist in pencil "Henri Matisse", below numbered "45/50".
Catalog Raisonne: Duthuit/...
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Fauvist 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ancient Egyptian Flint Knife
Located in London, GB
This exquisite fishtail knife displays extraordinary levels of flint workmanship. The blade is thin and tactile with delicate saw-like teeth. The V- or fishtail-shaped side would hav...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
Roman Campana Relief of a Satyr Harvesting Grapes
Located in London, GB
This terracotta relief depicts a kneeling satyr picking bunches of grapes and adding them to his overflowing basket. It originally must have belonged to a larger scene showing the dr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Terracotta
Sitting Madonna, Sedes Sapientiae
Located in Wien, Wien
Sitting Madonna, Sedes Sapientiae
Enthroned on Solomon's throne of wisdom
Ca. 1485/90
Around 1485/Alabaster, sculpturally carved, remains of the original polychromy
Museum sculpture ...
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Gothic 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Alabaster
Spectacular Natural Gogotte Formation Sculpture
Located in London, GB
This spectacular gogotte was finely modelled by the movement of silica-rich water through loose sand. The thick swirls and folds of sparkling sandstone roll into one another to creat...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
Madonna & Child, 15th Century School of Giovanni BELLINI (1430-1516)
By Giovanni Bellini
Located in Blackwater, GB
Madonna & Child, 15th Century
Studio of Giovanni BELLINI (1430-1516)
Fine large 15th Century Italian Old Master depiction of the Madonna and Child, oil on panel. Important early la...
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Medieval 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Sancai-Glazed Official
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Sancai, tri color glazed pottery figure of a Tang Dynasty official. Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).
Category
Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ceramic
Stucco Portrait of a Lohan China Yuan/Ming Dynasty, circa 14th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Stucco Portrait of a Lohan China
Yuan/Ming Dynasty, circa 14th Century
Lohans are saints that have reached the first stage of Nirvana who may show others the way. They were discipl...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Glass, Plaster, Pigment
Roman Bronze Figure of Winged Eros riding a Dolphin, 2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze figure of a young Eros, caught in the pose of riding a dolphin.
Attractive green patina, some fingers and right foot are broken. Separately worked left wing is missing. Right ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
A late Hellenistic Ionic Marble Capital Greek Empire 2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
PROVENANCE
J.E. Private Collection, Bavaria, 1960s
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Travertine
Ancient Egyptian Bronze Lizard Sarcophagus
Located in London, GB
An exquisite bronze reliquary in the form of a lizard basking in the sun, lying atop a finely inscribed base made hollow to hold mummified reptile remains. This remarkable object, wh...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
An Early Ming Dynasty Fresco Painting of a Female Attendant
Located in SANTA FE, NM
A Ming Dynasty Painting of a Female Attendant
Ink, gouache, mineral pigments and gesso on stucco
China, early Ming Dynasty (15th century)
31.5 x 16.5 inches (Frame 40.25 x 25.5 inche...
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Ming 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
Egyptian Coffin mask
Located in Wien, Wien
26th dynasty, ca. 664 - 525 B.C.
Wood covered with linen
Original version
Height 50 cm.
Provenance:
Private collection Füssen
Collection of the archaeologist Klenz
Starnberg before 1...
Category
Naturalistic 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood
Two spiral pins fibula, Hallstatt, 1st Iron Age, Bronze, Sculpture, Antiquities
Located in Geneva, CH
Two spiral pins fibula, Hallstatt, 1st Iron Age, Bronze, Sculpture, Antiquities
Two spiral pins fibula
9-6 centuries before j.c
Bronze with green and brown patina
Provenance :
Col...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Stone Age Ceremonial Axes
Located in London, GB
A group of large, exquisitely preserved Neolithic thin-butted axes, knapped and polished from blocks of mottled orange, grey, cream and brown-coloured flint.
These tools were craf...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
Ancient Etruscan Bronze Negau Helmet
Located in London, GB
A beautifully preserved Etruscan bronze helmet, from the extraordinary collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001). The high skull is almond-shaped, with a flaring everted brim pierced o...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Cross section of the Seymchan Meteorite
Located in London, GB
A cross-sectional cut from the pallasite meteorite Seymchan, recovered from the bed of the river Hekandue in the Russian Far East. This fragment has been prepared to reveal the honey...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Sancai-Glazed Horse with Cut Fur Blanket
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Chinese, Tang Dynasty, Sancai-glazed, three colors of brown, green and creamy, sculpture of a horse with a cut fur blanket. This Chinese, Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), glazed earthenw...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Earthenware, Glaze
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Bernard by Giovanni
Located in New Orleans, LA
This breathtaking 15th-century Italian Renaissance painting honoring the Madonna and Christ Child with Saints Jerome and Bernard is attributed to the preeminent Sienese artist Benven...
Category
Renaissance 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Ancient Roman torso of Aphrodite
Located in London, GB
After the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles of Athens, one of antiquity’s greatest sculptors. The goddess’s body is sensitively modelled. She stands here in a contrapposto stance as ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity
Woodcut, 1491
Unsigned, as iss...
Category
Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Woodcut
Madonna with a Child, tempera on a gilt panel
Located in Recoleta, CABA
Painting attributed to the venetian artist Michele Giambono of a Virgin and Child.
Category
Gothic 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Roman Bronze Figure of Aphrodite, 2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
PROVENANCE
Georges Manolakos, 10 rue Buffault, Paris
Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, acquired from the above on October 5th, 1899
Christie's, Paris, Ancienne Collection Charles Gi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian
By Bonifacio Bembo
Located in New Orleans, LA
These exceptionally rare early Renaissance panels of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian are an extraordinary new discovery. It is believed, thanks to the research of art historians Marco ...
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Renaissance 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Fossilised Colla Wood
Located in London, GB
This fossilised white pine wood section displays a beautiful surface, with vibrant hues of browns, blues, and greens creating a dazzling effect. This gem-like appearance is the resul...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Fragment of a right foot, Roman period, 3rd century AD, sculpture, antiquities
Located in Geneva, CH
Fragment of a right foot, Roman period, 3rd century AD, sculpture, antiquities
3rd century AD
Hollow cast bronze
Provenance :
Collection of Nicolas Koutoulakis, Paris and Geneva...
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Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Bronze
St.peter Oil on table Gold 15th Century Old master Germany Gothic Religious Art
By Stephan Lochner (Meersburg, around 1400 - Cologne 1451)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Late Gothic, German (15th century)
Painter of the Cologne school, circle of Stephan Lochner (Meersburg, around 1400 - Cologne 1451)
Panel (compartment of a polyptych) with gold backg...
Category
Old Masters 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Oil
Spectacular Meteorite Specimen
Located in London, GB
This complete cross-section from the pallasite meteorite Imilac has been prepared to reveal shimmering olivine and peridot gems embedded in iron-nickel metallic crystals, forming a m...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Extremely Large Megalodon Shark Tooth
Located in London, GB
This exceedingly large and beautifully preserved serrated tooth would have once lined the mouth of a big Megalodon shark (Carcharocles megalodon).
The mightiest and most terrifying ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Marble Lion Fountain Head Roman Empire 1st/2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Large roman carved marble fountain head representing a lion
Rome, I-II Century AC
Bonham's London, 22 September 1998, lot 485; formerly in the private collection of a Norwegian gent...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit woman figural sculpture
Located in Hudson, NY
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio type, ca. 100 BCE to 200 CE. A handbuilt bichrome terracotta standing female figure standing with her torso nude with pronounced b...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Terracotta
Fragmentary Marble Corinthian Capital Roman Empire 2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
PROVENANCE
Bernhard Wicki Private Collection, acquired before 1977
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Hebrew Bible manuscript fragment of the Genesis
Located in London, GB
From the Cairo Genizah, Ben Ezra Synagogue, Egypt - the famous and most important cache of early medieval Jewish manuscripts ever discovered - a fragment of one of the earliest survi...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Ink, Vellum
Madonna with child
Located in Wien, Wien
Madonna with child
Rheinland
around 1350/70
Carved hardwood
Original version
Height 50 cm
Category
Gothic 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood
Sandstone head of Vishnu, Khmer, Angkor period, style of Bakheng
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful head of Vishnu. Khmer, Cambodia. Angkor period, style of Bakheng, 1st quarter of 10th century. Carved sandstone. Height 10 7/8 inches, width 6.75 inches, profile 5 7/8 inch...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Sandstone
Egyptian Basalt Healing Statue
Located in London, GB
Preserving the left foot of a statue with finely modelled toes and nails. The sides and top of the base are inscribed with hieroglyphs naming a priest of Horus and Amun.
Healing sta...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Stone
Spectacular Petrified Wood from Arizona
Located in London, GB
A large and highly decorative section of a petrified conifer tree trunk (Araucarioxylon arizonicum) from Northern Arizona. Over millions of years, this Prehistoric tree transformed i...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Other Medium
Ancient Greek Apulian Gnathia-ware Hydria Vase
Located in London, GB
A confidently made Gnathia-ware hydria, ribbed and with elegant bands of rosettes and decorative details applied in opaque paint around its neck and body. As its name suggests, this ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Terracotta
Sculptural Iron Meteorite from Morasko Poland
Located in London, GB
A sculptural iron meteorite dating to the formation of the solar system, some 4.55 billion years ago. From the Morasko meteorite nature reserve, Poznan, Western Poland, discovered, c...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Iron
Roman Marble Torso of Aphrodite, 1st 2nd Century AD
Located in Milan, IT
Full height including base: 120 cm
PROVENANCE
French Art Market
Private Collection, Piemonte
Private Collection
A torso sculpted with Greek marble with large crystals, originally p...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
Corpus Christi
Located in Wien, Wien
Corpus Christi
around 1170/90
Southern France or Catalonia
carved oak wood
height 109 cm, width 96 cm
Remains of polychromy
Category
Gothic 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Wood
Figure of Maitreya
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A wood sculpture of the Maitreya from the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), China, radiocarbon dated by Rafter Radiocarbon Lab in New Zealand. Maitreya, the “happy Buddha” of the future...
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Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Pigment, Wood
Roman Marble Sculpture of Jupiter seating on a throne, Antiquities, 2nd A-D
Located in Geneva, CH
Roman Marble Sculpture of Jupiter seating on a throne, Antiquities, 2nd A-D
Marble
33 x 22 x 32 cm
Provenance :
Private collection, Geneva (acquired in the late 1940s, early 1950s)...
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Other Art Style 15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
"Egrets in the Snow" by Sesshu Toyo
Located in Clinton Twp, MI
Lithograph measures 38 x 26 inches.
Good/Fair, slight creasing at bottom of lithograph.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Lithograph
2nd-century Gandharan carved Indian relief panel
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful carved relief with figures, Gandharan, 2nd-3rd century. India or Pakistan. Carved schist. Measures h. 4 3/8 inches; l. 14 3/8 inches; d. 1.75 inches.
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15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Sandstone
12th Century Khmer Goddess Devata or Uma sculpture
Located in Hudson, NY
12th Century Khmer Goddess Devata or Uma
Carved sandstone, Angkor period, Baphuon style (1050-1100), 12th century, Cambodia. 28 1/2" tall.
Without display base or evidence of dril...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Sandstone
Marble Figure of a Goddess Ancient Greece 1st half of 4th Century BC
Located in Milan, IT
This fragmentary figure, now a torso, depicts an evocative goddess, caught in the act of gently raising her right arm (now missing), while holding a piece of peplos in her other hand...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art
Materials
Marble
