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Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Alabaster
Near Eastern
3rd Millenium BC
SIZE: 9.5cm high, 9.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep - 3¾ ins high, 3¾ ins wide, 6 ins ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Alabaster
Late-Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian Wooden Mummy Mask Ear on Custom Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
This Late Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian carved wood ear, once part of a mummy mask, stands as a poignant testament to ancient Egyptian customs and beliefs. Dating back over 250...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Wood
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Indian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Schist
An Openwork Copper Alloy Garment Pin
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Persian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Copper
An Anatolian Marble ‘Star Gazer’ Figure
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Turkish Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Marble
Ushabti for Imenmes
Located in London, GB
A mummiform ushabti in blue faience. Four registers of hieroglyphic characters are painted around the lower half of the ushabti, with a vertical column of hieroglyphs in the centre o...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Faience
Megalithic Stela
Located in London, GB
A tall anthropomorphic stele of carved granite, divided into two distinct regions of the body and face. The body is a single unarticulated block, but the facial features are outlined...
Category
European Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Granite
Statuette of the Goddess Neith
Located in London, GB
Bronze statue of the goddess Neith, striding, her left foot extended forward. Her left hand is extended forward and formally held a papyrus sceptre, a fragmentary ankh is visible in her right hand. She wears a close-fitting sheath dress, incised with a broad usekh collar, and carefully engraved bracelets and armlets. On her head is the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, decorated with vertical striations and restored spiral and spire. Her face is finely molded, with a broad upturned nose and electrum-overlaid eyes and eyebrows.
Neith was one of the earliest recorded gods in the Egyptian pantheon, worshipped from early in the Predynastic era through to the arrival of Roman rule. A war goddess and goddess of weaving, she was the patron goddess of the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the city of Zau (Sais, in the 5th Nome of Lower Egypt) in the Delta. A powerful and popular goddess, she was, according to the Iunyt (Esna) cosmology, the creator of the world and the mother of the sun, Ra. This made her the mother of all of the gods, who often came to her to settle their disputes.
Her symbols are the bow and arrows and a sword and shield as a war goddess, a weaving shuttle as a funerary goddess, and the Red Crown of Lower Egypt as the goddess of creation and mother goddess. She is usually depicted as a woman wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, however, she is occasionally depicted as a cow in connection with her role as the mother of Ra.
The use of electrum, a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver sometimes called ‘green-gold’, for the eyes speaks to the high status of the object. Electrum had been used by the Egyptians since at least the 3rd millennium B.C., but, give its rarity, was reserved for the most expensive and important objects. Most electrum used in Egypt was imported from Nubia, though some was found there.
Published:
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 25th, 1971, no. 70, illus.
Sotheby’s, New York, June 5th, 1999, no. 31, illus.
David Aaron Ltd...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Siren
Located in London, GB
Sirens were dangerous bird-like females who tempted sailors with their hauntingly beautiful song. In Homer’s Odyssey (XII, 39) Odysseus and his sailors were warned about the lethal c...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Anglo-Saxon Hanging Bowl
Located in London, GB
A very rare and near-complete copper-alloy hanging bowl and associated fittings. Crafted from a single sheet of bronze, the body of the bowl is curved, with a slightly recessed lip. ...
Category
English Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine C (2800-2600 BC).
Located in London, GB
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine Circa (2800-2600 BC).
A rare female pottery cup bearer figurine in terracotta with pointed facial features and applied diamond sha...
Category
Indian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Terracotta
AR drachm Mithradates I, Hekatompylos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head left in bashlyk
Reverse: archer seated right on omphalos, three line legend, H
Not known to Sellwood, unpublished coin of Hekatompylos mint
Weight: 3.95 g
Grade: Abou...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Gordian III (238-244)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTI, Salus feeding snake on her arm from patera
Gewicht: 3.41 g
Kwaliteit: Prachti...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Drachm Bagadat, kingdom of Persis, Persepolis
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head right, with mustache and earring, wearing diadem and kyrbasia
Reverse: fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, above, half-figure of Ahura-Mazda, to inner left, Baydād (Bagadat) st...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Vespasian (69-79)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS V TR P P P, laureate head right
Reverse: AVGVSTAE – PACI, Victory standing right, holding shouldered palm frond with her left hand and a wreath in ...
Category
Greek Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius F. Fabius Labeo INCUSE
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) below chin
Reverse: incuse
Weight: 3.84 g
Grade: Very Fine
Mint: Rome
Reference: Crawford 273/1; Sydenham 532
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: P CLODIVS / M F., laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to left
Reverse: Diana Lucifera standing right, bow and quiver over her shoulder, holding torches
BEAUTIFUL TONING
W...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Julia Paula, wife of Elagabalus (219-220)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right, showing later coiffure with small bun
Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, holding patera, star in left field
Beautifully detaile...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Tetradrachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with head fa...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Agathokles, Sicily, Syracuse
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Pegasos flying left, triskeles below
VERY RARE
Beautiful toning
Weight: 6.80 g
Grade: Good Extremely Fine
Reference: Pegasi 19 va...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Demeter left, wearing barley wreath
Reverse: ΜΕΤA, ear of barley, pitchfork above leaf in left field
Weight: 7.84 g
Grade: About extremely fine
Reference: SNG ANS 4...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Herakleia
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: [HPAKLHIWN], head of Athena right, wearing crested Athenian helmet ornamented with Skylla; behind, K
Reverse: HPAKLHIWN, Herakles, naked, standing facing, holding club and b...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
Pre Columbian Maya Polychrome Pottery Bowl circa A.D. 550-950
Located in London, GB
Maya Poly-chrome painted pottery bowl
Guatemala/ central America late Classic period, circa A.D. 550-950,
A bowl of rounded bottom circular form, painted with a frieze of monkey...
Category
Guatemalan Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Narino Carchi Coquero Coca chewer Figure Columbia
Located in London, GB
A hand modelled statue of a male coca chewer figure , known as a Coquero, wearing a sash sitting upon a bench, the coca quid in his right cheek, with black negative resist design
Pr...
Category
Colombian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico Latin American Antiques Art
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima Ancient Mexico C 200 BC –400 AD
A attractive seated Colima dog v...
Category
Mexican Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
Annamese stoneware with underglaze blue, Hoi An hoard, late 15th century
Located in seoul, KR
Decorated with floral and foliate reserves and clouds; lappets at base and leaves at neck.
Dates : 15th century Le Dynasty
Region : North Annam
Type : Yuhuchun Vase
Found/Acquired : Southeast Asia , South China Sea, Hoi An Ship
Reference :
1) Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - A vase from the wreck of the Hoi An
2) Butterfield Treasures Hoi An Hoard...
Category
Chinese Ming Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Stoneware
AR Tetradrachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with head fa...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Drachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with h...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Thrace, Thasos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: Silenus with nymph
Reverse: square incuse with four fields
AMAZING TONING AND HIGH RELIEF
Gewicht: 8.46 g
Kwaliteit: Prachtig
Referentie: HGC 331; Le Rider, Thasienne, Tf...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ΜΕΤ, corn ear with eight grains
Reverse: corn ear with eight grains, all incuse
Weight: 7.77 g
Grade: Good very fine
Mint: Metapontum
Reference: HN Italy 1459; HGC 1, 1027
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
Greek gold pendant with siren figurine, Hellenistic
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A gold pendant in the shape of a siren with a human head, hair parted and falling onto back, human upper body, wings on back, standing on drum-shaped pedestal, decorated with granule...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Ancient Persian Khurasan Islamic Engraved Calligraphy Bronze Oil Lamp c.1200
Located in Portland, OR
A 12th Century Islamic bronze oil lamp, Eastern Persia, Khurasan.
The cast bronze body of compressed globular form, raised on a trumpet shaped foot, the...
Category
Persian Islamic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
12th/13th Century Thai Khmer Pottery Jar
Located in Austin, TX
A refined pottery vase boasting an elegant silhouette and intricate impressed and applied decoration. The lovely jar exhibits a flared and folded rim, a corseted neck, and a broad sh...
Category
Cambodian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
A Roman bronze head attachment of a youth
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A finely detailed appliqué with the face of a youth, wavy hair framing the circular face, with well defined eyes, pierced for inlays.
5.5 cm (h)
Provenance:
Ex Jean-Phillipe Mari...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
An Egyptian wooden female offering bearer figure, Middle Kingdom
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Standing female wearing a tight fitting white dress and black tripartite wig, serene facial features with large painted eyes. Separately made arms attached with dowel to the shoulder...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Wood
An Egyptian alabaster ribbed cup, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The cup hand-carved from white alabaster with caramel and white veining throughout the composition. The cup stands upon a tapering base, and widens to form the ribbed, cylindrical cup.
Alabaster was a material prized by ancient sculptors...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Alabaster
A Roman bronze applique in the shape of a theatre mask
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Mask of a bearded deity, short beard and hair braided in the characteristic high hairstyle, with layered ringlets on either side.
4 cm (h)
Green patina
...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
A Roman terracotta red slip ware oil lamp with theatre masks
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Round body with plain nozzle, the discus decorated with three theatre masks, air hole in centre, the base with work shop mark in the form of a foot print
Loeschcke Typ VIII, Schulte...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Terracotta
A Roman gold pendant with portrait cameo
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The loop attached to an oval fitting with radiant decoration. The cameo made of agate, showing the profile of a female bust with hair pinned up. The portrait in the style of Faustina...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
A Roman bronze foot
Located in UTRECHT, UT
With square fitting, hollow at the top for attachment to furniture, one large paw on round base sprouting into lion’s head with visible teeth.
9,5 cm (h)
Ex German private property...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Pre Columbian Large Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Pre Columbian INCA / Early Colonial period Wood Kero
A superb Large Inca Kero cup profusely carved in the mosaic style with a image of the Inca or...
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Wood
Ancient Pre-Columbian Inca Chimu Silver Portrait Votive Cup Vessel Peru 1400 CE
Located in Portland, OR
An important Pre-Columbian Inca/Chimu silver portrait vessel cup, Peru, 1400 CE.
The indigenous people of Peru created these vessels for more than domestic purposes. Rather, they were used during life & after life at funerary ceremonies that incorporated intricate religious libations and imbibing rites. To create this piece, the ancient metalsmith hammered a piece of silver into a very thin sheet, approximately the size of the finished work. Then, the artisan used fine-grained stone anvils and hammer stones...
Category
Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
A Colima Shark Effigy Vessel
Located in Stamford, CT
A Colima shark effigy vessel. Mexico. 1st Century BC - 2nd Century AD.
On stand : 7.5" h
Category
Mexican Primitive Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Clay
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London
Located in Braintree, GB
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London.
Country: England
England
Period: House of Plantagenet
Ruler: Edward III
Phase: treaty p...
Category
British Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Apulian Red Figure Lekanis with Ladies of Fashion
Located in London, GB
A Red-figure lekanis composed of a fitted lid with red-figure "ladies of fashion" in profile. This woman wears a saccos, a type of headdress characterised by its draped fabric, which...
Category
Italian Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Terracotta
Byzantine Silver Ring with Granulated Shield Bezel
Located in London, GB
A silver Byzantine ring, distinguished by its large, granulated shield bezel, which reflects the artistic prowess and cultural significance of the Byzantine Empire. The ring possesse...
Category
Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver
Medieval Silver Gilt Floral-Shaped Ring with Enamel Inserts
Located in London, GB
An exquisite silver gilt finger ring featuring a beautiful floral-shaped bezel with raised bosses and remnants of blue and green enamel. The ring is further embellished with several ...
Category
European Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Pre-Columbian Narino Bowl
Located in Washington, DC
Fine Pre-Columbian Narino footed bowl from Columbia, circa 850 to 1500. Desirable polychrome bowl with vibrant color.
Category
Colombian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Ceramic
Egyptian Steatite Scarab in Gold Pendant
Located in London, GB
An Egyptian steatite scarab with incised features and hieroglyphs to the reverse. The front anatomy features a detailed head and clypeus with incised linear decoration to mark the prothorax and elytra. The reverse side is hard to distinguish. Mounted in a high karat later gold swivel pendant...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Islamic Intaglio in Sasanian Gold Ring
Located in London, GB
A Sasanian gold ring adorned with a carnelian intaglio featuring masterful calligraphy. The carnelian intaglio in this particular ring is a testament to the mastery of early Islamic ...
Category
Islamic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Carnelian, Gold
Greek Black Glaze Pottery Guttus
Located in London, GB
A black-glazed terracotta guttus (oil-lamp filler) with a spool-shaped foot, a wheel-shaped body, a protruding ring handle, and a cylindrical spout with an everted rim. The tondo fea...
Category
Italian Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Pottery
Swivel Gold Ring with Egyptian Scarab
Located in London, GB
An Egyptian steatite scarab encased in a possibly later, high-karat gold swivel ring. The scarab is a symbol of rebirth and protection and is decorated with six sacred serpents, repr...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Massive Byzantine Bronze Reliquary Cross Pendant
Located in London, GB
A cast-bronze Byzantine reliquary cross pendant with two cruciform plaques that open for relic or document storage, depicting the crucified Christ on both faces. Relics, the physical...
Category
Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Bronze
Roman Beaded Necklace
Located in London, GB
A restrung Roman necklace with stone and glass beads. It combines different materials, featuring striking blue and red beads. Romans valued blue highly for its symbolic significance ...
Category
Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Stone
Byzantine Gold Matching Pair of Earrings
Located in London, GB
A matched pair of Byzantine gold hoop earrings with a hook and eye closure. These exquisite earrings have three spherical decorative elements suspended along each loop. At the centre, a ball with beading at its edges and at both sides, symmetrical attachments adorned with circular openwork decoration. The use of gold in Byzantine jewellery...
Category
Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure
Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
A Rare basalt bust of a Totonac deity with pouted lips and geometric headdress, caved in basalt with dar...
Category
Mexican Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Stone
Roman Gold Pendant with Cabochons
Located in London, GB
A thin, circular Roman gold pendant featuring a central garnet cabochon gem held within a raised cell. Above it, another garnet cabochon enriches th...
Category
Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Gold
Roman Beaded Necklace
Located in London, GB
A restrung Roman stone necklace with cream and beige beads, featuring a central pendant comprised of a large, perforated stone. Roman stone beads varied in material and were valued f...
Category
Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Antiquities
Materials
Stone
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