Exceptional Antiquities, Ethnographic Art

Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, rein of Tuthmosis III, ca. 1479 to 1401 BCE. Large and lovely green glazed steatite scarab beetle of somewhat n...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. This is a collection of five small faience amulets of different Egyptian deities and symbols of ...

Egypt, probably Memphis, Middle Kingdom, Ramesside period, Dynasty XIX, ca. 1279 to 1193 BCE. Mummiform votive ushabti, white faience with transp...

Egypt, probably New Kingdom / Third Intermediate Period, 1550 to 712 BCE (gold is modern). This is a mottled brown steatite scarab with an inscrip...

Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Period, ca. 1300 to 500 BCE. Lovely and wearable necklace comprised of green faience tube and spacer beads with a total...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Late Dynastic, ca. 1000 to 500 BCE. A very lovely and wearable necklace comprised of 27 ancient Egyptian faien...

Egyptian, Late Period, Dynasty 26 through 30, ca. 664 to 343 BCE. A solid, bronze cast figure depicting the goddess Isis seated with her feet tog...

Egypt, Late Period, Ptolemaic period, ca. 300 to 30 BCE. Openwork cartonnage aegis collar breast plate and vertical column register. Painted gesso...

Egypt, Late Dynastic period, Dynasties 26 through 30, ca. 664 to 342 BCE. Large and finely cast bronze standing Osiris - the creator god - wearin...

Egyptian during the Roman Era ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A very rare life-like mummy portrait on linen similar stylistically and iconographically ...

Egypt Coptic period ca. 200 to 400 CE. Very rare limestone tablet depicting what we assume is Christ standing with the hand of God coming down fro...

Egypt Coptic period ca. 2nd to 4th centuries CE. A very rare bone or ivory plaque depicting a nude male fisherman. He stands with his weight on ...

Egypt, probably late Dynastic to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 1539 to 100 BCE. This is a polychrome carved alabaster (travertine) fish in the form of the...

Romano-Egyptian, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. One of the most important examples of ancient gold we have had the pleasure of offering. H...

Romano-Egyptian, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. One of the most important examples of ancient gold we have had the pleasure of offering. ...

Aegean / Eastern Mediterranean, Corinth, ca. 6th centurie BCE. This delicately decorated oinochoe (oenochoe) -- wine pouring vessel -- has a flat ...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 550 to 500 BCE. A large and impressive Attic black figure Type B belly amphora with characteristic continuous profile...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 500 BCE. A beautiful Attic black-figure neck amphora of a classic form with twin conjoined tripartite strap handles, a...

Ancient Greece, ca. 550 to 500 BCE. A stunning black-figure oinochoe with a characteristic globular body decorated with a figural scene of Dionyso...

Greece, Athens / Attica, ca. 5th century BCE. Gorgeous pottery oil lamp in circular form save elongated spout, small circular opening in base to a...

Greece and northern Italy ca. 6th to 5th centuries BCE. Most folks are very aware of the scarabs made in ancient Egypt but many collectors are no...

Ancient Greece, ca. 6th to 4th century BCE. A very early example of a core-formed glass amphoriskos (miniature amphora) once used to hold perfumed...

Greece, Athens, ca. 450 BCE. This is an amazing Attic kylix (drinking cup) with finely shaped squared-off handles, a wide, evenly sloping bowl, an...

Greece, Corinthia, ca. 6th century BCE. A very attractive pottery aryballos - a vessel used to hold scented oils and perfumes in the bath - decora...

Athens, Greece, ca. mid 5th century BCE. Stunning and important black-glazed amphoriskos of acorn shape tapering to a narrow ridged ring foot, tw...

Boeatian, Greece, Ca 5th Century BCE. A buff terracotta votive offering of a female, mold made, depicting possibly the Goddess Demeter or Persepho...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Daunian, ca. 350 BCE. An elegant and elaborately decorated handbuilt terracotta funerary vessel with a broad funnel r...

Ancient Greece Corinth ca. 500 BC. A two part spool-shaped thin walled delicately fitted terracotta vessel painted with red pigment overall and wi...

Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A very lovely Red-Figure pottery calyx krater - similar in function to the bell krater...

Greece, Athens, 5th century BCE. This is a red-figure pottery skyphos, a dual-handled, deep cup with a low flanged base, used for drinking wine. T...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A large and finely painted terracotta mug with a flaring mouth and a single bifurcated ...

Greece, ca. 400 to 300 BCE. An ancient Greek bronze helmet of the Pilos type, of conical form with a recessed carinated band around the lower por...

Greece Hellenistic period ca. 300 to 100 BCE. A very rare and quite naughty marble sculpture. Showing a male and female in the act of coitis she...

Ancient Greek, South Italian workshop, Daunia/Peucetia, Circa 4th century BCE. Two-handle cup with brown down linear decor in red, cream, and bro...

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, Gnathian Teano Ware, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A wheel thrown shallow Teano Ware bowl on a small, narrow circul...

Magna Graecia, Italy, ca. mid 4th century BCE. A Greek red-figure askos with a gently domed round body upon a ring foot and a single handle behind...

Greek Empire, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, colony of Apulia, ca. 340 BCE. We have seen a number of very fine Greek miniatures, but none can comp...

Ancient Greek world, possibly Thracian, ca. 330 BCE. These are seven really beautiful small artifacts, tiny gold buttons bearing a profile likenes...

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. This is a finely modeled male head wearing a pilos (hat); handsome angular carved facial f...

Italy, Apulia/Daunian, ca. 300 BCE. This is a small, beautiful kyathos -- a dipper -- with a swastika design on the interior center and a series o...

Ancient Greece, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd to 2nd century BCE. An elegant buffware oinochoe (wine jug) of an ample body, trefoil lip with decorative ap...

Southern Europe, Hallstatt culture, ca. 7th century BCE. This is a beautiful, intact example of one of my favorite artifacts -- the spectacle, or ...

Southern Italy, Apulia / Daunian, ca. 300 BCE. This is a terracotta askos, a single-handled vessel for holding valuable liquids and pouring small ...

Greek/Roman ca 3rd to 1st century BCE. A large fine and important ancient bronze! Venus stands contraposto holding an apple in her right hand nu...

Italy South Italic Daunian ca 350 BCE. A finely hand-built ceramic vessel of an olpe-like form but with a strainer bottom beautifully painted in r...

Greece, Tanagra, Boeotia, ca. 4th century BCE. This is a beautiful, graceful example of a mold made pottery votive figure. He stands nude atop a s...

Greece, 3rd century BCE. This is a striking, almost modernist looking bronze olpe, a vessel for holding and pouring wine, with a distinctive point...

Italy, Apulia/Daunian, ca. 300 BCE. This is a beautiful example of a kyathos, a dipper, with a flat, long, looping handle. Daunian society was a m...

Italy, Apulia/Daunian, ca. 300 BCE. This is a really fine example of Daunian pottery, which was influenced by the cultural commingling of the nati...

Italy, Apulia/Daunian, ca. 300 BCE. This is a nice high-footed plate with circular black and red designs around a geometric central design known a...

Etruria, central Italy, ca. 4th century BCE. This is a buff terracotta figure depicted in the pose of a person attending a drinking party -- a Sym...

Etruria, central Italy, ca. 600 to 400 BCE. This is a large bronze vessel with a delicate, decorated handle and a gorgon-faced applique at the bot...

Hellenistic Greece, Ptolemaic Period, 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE. Carved with delicate lips and recessed eyes (that once would have been inlaid), th...

Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 5th century BCE. A solid cast bronze figural handle of an Etruscan mirror, the elegant form depicting a female caryat...

Etruria (present day Italy), Etruscan civilization, ca. 5th century BCE. A fine, solid cast bronze nude male youth, most likely depicting an athle...

North-central Italy Etruria ca. 6th century BCE. Female votary or goddess standing somewhat stiffly as was the style during this period of Etrusc...

Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 4th century BCE. A very fine Etruscan pottery votive in the form of a female head with full lips, a thin nose, almon...

Roman Republic, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. This is a finely-shaped flagon with a bulbous body, a flared lip, and a strap handle formed from the s...

Rome, ca. 200 to 100 BCE. This is a terracotta hollow figure that would have been used as a mold for lost wax casting. The front of the figure is ...

Roman Republic / early Roman Empire, ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Before the invention of glass blowing in the first century CE, Roman manufacturers of ...