About Gallery Elder
Founded in 2022, Gallery Elder specializes in early, crude decorative antiques and antiquities, including medieval stone and wood, ancient pottery and sculpture, ranging in origin from Europe and Asia, South America, to here in North America.
Established in 2022
Featured Pieces
Monumental Neolithic Greywacke Toki Blade with Handle on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Originates from: Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Era: 12th - 9th Century BCE
Dimensions: 15" H x 7" W x 3" D
Intensely beautiful and sculptural Greywacke stone adze with incorporat...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Cook Islands Archaistic Natural Specimens
Materials
Sandstone
Drollery Pillow
Located in Ottawa, CA
An exclusive edition of feather filled pillows with custom Drollery print for Gallery Elder. Drawn by artist Nicolas Sanchez based on The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel. 18" x 18" vel...
Category
2010s Canadian Medieval Pillows and Throws
Materials
Velvet
Monumental Adze Head on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Absolutely stunning and monumental adze head from Papua New Guinea - a gigantic example standing 15" high. Dating from at latest, the 19th century, likely much earlier though. Carved...
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Antique Early 19th Century Papua New Guinean Archaistic Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Neolithic Polished Stone Adze Head, Papua New Guinea
Located in Ottawa, CA
Stunning Neolithic period polished stone adze head with the most stunning tone to the stone, varying from green to soft yellow and deep brown. A beautiful example with a still sharpe...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Papua New Guinean Archaistic Natural Sp...
Materials
Stone
Early Neolithic Capsian Culture Cylindrical Rubbing Mill Pestle on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Beautiful cylindrical rubbing mill pestle from the hunter-gatherer Capsian culture of early Neolithic Northern Africa (9000 - 5400 BCE) showing deep signs of millennia of usage and l...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Algerian Archaistic Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Mezcala Black and Orange Jade Figure on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Beautiful and crude mezcala figure, carved of an iron oxidized Orange and Black Jade, circa 600 - 100 BCE, Mexico. Wonderfully carved silhouette, with crude detailing across the face...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Archaistic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Jade
Large Sandstone Temple Carving of Nagaraja on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Absolutely incredible 14th - 15th century sandstone temple carving depicting Nagaraja, king of the Naga - the divine half man - half serpent beings that live in the netherworld Patal...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Indian Anglo-Indian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Anatolian Chalcolithic Period Hacilar Painted Vessel
Located in Ottawa, CA
Very rare and truly incredible Chalcolithic period, circa 5600 - 5400 BCE, Hacilar painted and decorated bowl, Anatolian, modern day Southwestern Turkey. Beautiful and incredibl...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Turkish Archaistic Ceramics
Materials
Terracotta
Large Stone Mayan Hacha Head on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
Brilliant Mayan Hacha, Veracruz, Mexico, circa 550 - 800 AD. A beautiful example of carved stone, depicting a male warrior facial silhouette with grimaced glare. Relief carved eye an...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Figurative Sculpt...
Materials
Limestone
Green Stone Olmec Maskette on Stand
Located in Ottawa, CA
A stunning and rare example of an Olmec Maskette, carved of green stone, from the Veracruz region of Mexico, circa 900 BCE. A beautiful example with lovely proportionality and almost...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Figurative Sculpt...
Materials
Stone
Mezcala M-22 Black Serpentine Stone Figure
Located in Ottawa, CA
An incredible and rare example of a Mezcala figure from the state of Guerrero, Mexico, carved of a black serpentine stone, circa 300 BCE. A fantastic example exhibiting deep detail i...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Figurative Sculpt...
Materials
Stone
Bronze Age Bactrian Stone Aniconic Idol
Located in Ottawa, CA
Bactrian large stone aniconic idol figure, a latge ritual object with unknown usage from a culture that had no written language. Circa 2000 BCE, Central Asia. Beautiful mottled stone...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Central Asian Archaistic Abstract Sculp...
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Stone
