Gold Antiquities

Walking stick: jewel knob handle in the shape of Milord octagonal gold with a large faceted quartz. Malacca wood shaft. Metal ferrule. USA 1841.

A wonderfully decorative single monocle or magnifying glass that easily opens to become a Lorgnette. The Piece looks great on a desk or work station or as a vintage display piece - v...

A wonderful very rare Central Asian necklace of multi faceted silver and gold gilt beads with small turquoise pieces in each faceted section, beautiful antique beads dating from 17/1...

This wonderful Pre Columbian necklace features goldwork and Spondylus beads with carved figural pendant. ( Spoudylus is a type of Oyster commonl...

Rare 18th century Italian gold leaf tassel ornaments - 3 sets of five of the pointed tassels, 2 sets of the spiral carved tassels, one set of the tear drop tassels, and one set of th...

18th century Italian gold leaf tassel ornaments. These were once used to decorate churches for feast days like Christmas. They are hand-carved and hand-painted. French and Italian de...

This fragment forms part of the famed Ziwiye hoard of treasure, reputably found in 1947 in modern day Kurdistan. As the contents of a royal tomb of a great ancient king, the pieces were quickly dispersed and only in the following years did the huge significance become understood in scholarship. These objects have become famous as the keystone in explaining underpinning socio-economic and political cultural ties across the silk route, reflected by these works of art. These objects exhibit styles and motifs associated with the four pre-eminent cultures at this juncture in history: Assyrian, Scythian, proto-Achaemenid and the provincial native pieces. The Scythians, a seminomadic people from the Eurasian steppes who moved out from Southern Russia into the territory between the Don and the Danube and then into Mesopotamia are responsible for the basis of an ‘animal style’ design found on the elaborate metalwork and jewellery produced in Central Asian ancient world. This style starts to appear in the 7th century B.C typically on pierced plaques made of gold and silver, which depict running or fighting animals (reindeer, lions, tigers, horses) alone or in pairs facing each other, embossed with powerful plasticity and free interpretation of the forms. The animal- style had a strong influence in western Asia during the 7th century B.C. Such ornaments as necklaces, bracelets, pectorals, diadems, and earrings making up the Ziwiye treasure (discovered in Iran near the border between Kurdistan and Azerbaijan) provide evidence of this Asiatic phase of Scythian gold...

The Lombard Kingdom was an early medieval state established by the Lombards, a Germanic people, on the Italian Peninsula in the latter part of the 6th century. The produced elaborate...

The gold wreath consists of a large hammered gold strap ornamented with a central rosette, confronting leaves and repoussé scenes. The two semi-circular en...

19th century English hand carved gold gilt wall panel fragment We are proud to offer an original highly decorative English 19th century hand carved wall panel...

18th century Italian gold leaf tassel ornaments. The tassels originally came from an 18th century Italian chandelier. They are hand-carve...

A fantastic phiale formed by a single hammered silver sheet; a smooth surface with a slightly flanged, corseted neck, a flared, unpronounced rim and a shallow interior, circa 400-300 BC. The central part is decorated with an applied gilded rosette. Libation bowls were used across a wide geographical area – from Greece to Tibet, throughout the ancient Near East...