Variety Sale - Ancient | Asian | Ethnographic

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic period, Naqada III, ca. 3200 to 3150 BCE. A red ware cylindrical vessel of the style known as alabastron with an elong...

Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 712 BCE. A tall pottery mummiform ushabti (shabti), mold-made, and painted a bright yellow-orange. Darker orange d...

Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom, ca. 2300 BCE. A miniature alabaster vessel, painstakingly carved by hand. The piriform vessel sits on a flat foot and ...

Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1543 to 1292 BCE. A gorgeous necklace of multi-colored round and disc-shaped faience, glass, and stone beads...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. A scaraboid form carved from white steatite in the shape of a fish - a tilapia, based on other E...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 to 1070 BCE. A pair of flat faience amulets. One is in the form of Sekhmet, with her sun crown and lioness he...

Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A cast bronze ibis, posed as if standing in the shallow waters on the shores of the...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. An ushabti (shabti) of pale blue and green faience with five lines of hieroglyphs and mummi...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1070 to 712 BCE. A very pale green ushabti (shabti) with hieroglyphs inscribed down the lower front, in the ...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, Dynasties 26 through 310, ca. 662 to 320 BCE. Interesting small bronze sarcophagus with a small shrew on top. The s...

Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Dynastic, 18th to 30th Dynasties, ca. 1300 to 300 BCE. Necklace and matching earrings comprised of innumerable ancient ...

Ancient Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 26 to 29, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A small faience amulet with a deep turquoise color in the form of the head of Ha...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A votive figure, mold-made from coarse red clay, with a design of the sacred bull god...

Greece, Geometric period, ca. 8th century BCE. A simple and suggestive abstract figure of a bull with a long tail, large phallus, long legs and fa...

Greece, ca. 600 BCE. A small cast bronze aryballos, a vessel with a small, round/ovoid body and a narrow neck terminating in a flared, very narrow...

Greece, Cyprus, Archaic Period, ca. 7th century BCE. A pottery jug with twin high, curving handles, a very narrow neck, and a flared, wide rim. Th...

Ancient Greek, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic Period, ca. 750 to 500 BCE. A round, shallow terracotta plate with twin loop handles projecting from its side...

Central Europe (Germany, Austria), Eastern Hallstatt Culture, ca. 8th to 6th centuries BCE. An amazingly well-preserved iron artifact, from the Ea...

Ancient Mediterranean, Cyprus, ca. 7th to 6th centuries BCE. This is a low, round-bodied pedestal plate with a bullseye design in its center and v...

Greece, Corinth, Archaic Period, ca. 6th century BCE. A beautiful kothon with a smooth, burnished, cream-color slipped surface and delicate black ...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Xenon, ca. 4th c. BCE. A fine ceramic drinking cup of a classic kylix form with a wide shallow bowl on a raised foot a...

Ancient Greece, ca. 4th century BCE. A hollow, mold-made terracotta bust of a woman, probably a goddess, with substantive white pigment remaining....

Magna Graecia, South Italic, Apulia, ca. 4th century BCE. A hydria of a classic form on raised disc foot with twin handles on shoulder and one beh...

Ancient Greece, South Italic, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A single-handled cup with a globular body, corseted shoulder, and flared rim; the body...

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulian, ca. 4th century BCE. A lovely two-part vessel used to store soaps and scented perfumes for the bath, deco...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. late 6th to early 5th century BCE. An exceptional Attic lekythos (oil flask) of an elegant slender and petite form de...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 525 to 475 BCE. A classic blackware kylix with a wide, shallow cup, standing upon a raised ring base, with twin horizo...

Greek, Magna Graecia, Xenon, ca. 4th century BCE. A blackware olpe with a characteristically high handle and form that is taller than its breadth ...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Xenon, ca. 4th c. BCE. A fine ceramic plate on a raised foot, the interior bowl adorned from rim to tondo with a flowe...

Classical World, Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 BCE. A small dish with a glossy black background and small, round, hollow foot. Red-figure painti...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 323 to 31 BCE. A mold made hollow figure of a female goddess, probably Athena, who stands striding forward, with o...

Greece, Tanagra, Boeotia, ca. 2nd century BCE. A mold-made, redware votive statue of the god Eros wearing his distinctive pointed Phrygian cap. Th...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 350 to 320 BCE. A fine red-figure skyphos with added/fugitive white and yellow paint decorated on each si...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. A stunning terracotta thymiaterion (incense burner) in red-figure w/ fugitive white and ...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, probably Gnathian, ca 325 BCE. A gorgeous polychrome lekythos, the body decorated with a net pattern in black with ad...

Magna Graecia, Southeast Italy, Canosan, ca. 350 to 250 BCE. A pendant pair or shall we say 'couple' of graceful oinochoe vessels, the portrait ba...

Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A stunning gold laurel leaf diadem comprised of a band of twisted gold wire adorned with embossed ...

Greece, Hellenistic Period, ca. late 3rd to 1st century BCE. A redware pottery bowl with a deep red color, an undecorated interior, but an impress...

Classical World, Etruria, ca. early 6th century CE. A large kyathos, a drinking cup with a tall handle, in the glossy black style of Bucchero ware...

Roman, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A breathtaking cameo with a high-relief bust of a young Alexander wearing a Herakles knotted lion skin tied at t...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. Stunning bronze fitting (or possibly pommel to a knife) in the form of a horse head. Wonderfully fluid ...

Rome, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. This is a bronze-socketed, iron pike with a long thin blade. The socket, immediately below the blade,...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. Lovely roundel or attachment in high relief in the form of a woman - perhaps a wealth patron, or wife of...

Roman Empire, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A miniature bronze cast applique depicting the head of Pan, the beloved half man half goat horned god kno...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A narrow marble column sitting on a wide, conical foot and expertly carved to form a spiral pat...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 180 to 220 CE. A lovely small alabaster bust of a bearded man with thick, curly hair on his head and face. His face is...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 6th century CE. An interestingly-shaped small transport amphora, without handles, of a local design rather than...

Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st century CE. A petite glass unguentarium of gorgeous light green hues and brilliant areas of breathtaking rainbow ir...

Ancient Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. 20K gold ring with an elegantly flattened shank meeting a raised oval bezel containing an amethyst intag...

Rome, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. In a word, gorgeous, for its fabulous form, beautiful translucency and green hues, not to mention its superb cond...

Roman, 1st to 3rd century CE. An absolutely amazing and stunning piece of Roman glass, a double unguent jar, connected by an incredibly thin, tran...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A silvery, shimmering, iridescent example of a delicate blown glass jar with a wide, conical sp...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 50 BCE to 175 CE (trumpet brooch), ca. 100 to 200 CE (bird brooch), ca. 200 to 600 CE (penannular brooch). A trio of R...

Rome, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A golden yellow glass unguentarium with conical base, tall tubular neck and everted rim, with areas of internal a...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 4th century CE. A pair of lost wax cast bronze appliques. One is a human face with a pronounced nose and wild, ...

Roman Empire, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. A breathtaking translucent green glass oinochoe, free-blown with a near-spherical body finely detailed wi...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A miniature cast bronze bull head of a simple form, with horns splayed out from the top of its ...

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A mold-made pottery toy figure of a horse draped with fine cloth and detailed harness. The legs...

Rome, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. So lovely for its fabulous form, light green hues, translucency, not to mention the areas of rainbow iridescence...

Rome, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A translucent green glass beaker, fashioned with relatively straight though slightly undulating ...