Exceptional Antiquities / Ethnographic Art

Egypt, Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3100 to 2686 BCE. The Archaic or Early Dynastic Period of Egypt immediately follows the unification of Upper and...

Egypt, New Kingdom /Third Intermediate Period, 1550 to 664 BCE. This is a large green basalt stone "heart" scarab with carved details of the head...

Egypt, 3rd Intermediate Period, 25-21 Dynasty, ca. 1069 to 732 BCE. A dramatic sarcophagus mask with a turquoise and black striped headdress, bron...

Egypt, Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, ca. 664 to 30 BCE. An ornate, bright blue faience scarab with highly detailed wings and body. All are pier...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A heavy and detailed cast bronze figure of the mummiform god of the...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, ca. 712 to 343 BCE. A wonderful cast bronze representation of a cat, sprawled on one side, one of her front paws cros...

Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1500 BCE. A funerary cone inscribed: "The venerated one in the presence of Osiris, the hereditary prince Amu...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasties 21 through 25, ca. 1070 to 664 B.C. Egyptian blue-green faience amulet of the goddess Bastet, protect...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Nubian Kingdom, 25th Dynasty, ca. 760 to 656 BCE. A dark turquoise green glazed faience ushabti, molded in mummi...

Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. A huge fragment of a wooden mummy sarcophagus, brightly painted on a thin layer of gesso with nat...

Egypt, Late Third Intermediate period, 25th Dynasty, ca. 646 to 525 BCE. A bronze cast figure of the feline goddess Bastet laying on a four post d...

Egypt, Late Dynastic Period. 26th Dynasty, ca. 672 to 525 BCE. Tall turquoise ushabti for a man called Ankh-em-maat, who was a sa-mery-ef ("his be...

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period to Late Dynastic Period, ca. 1070 to 332 BCE. A square limestone fragment with an incised motif depicting a seate...

Egypt, Late Dynastic period, ca. 712 to 332 BCE. A pair of brightly painted cartonnages - plastered layers formed into panels to line the inside o...

Egypt, Ptolemaic period, ca. 332 to 32 BCE. A large, multi-colored painted cartonnage fragment with a long column of hieroglyphic text. The text i...

Egypt, Ptolemaic Dynasty, ca. 305 to 30 BCE. A vibrant rendering of the Goddess Nut painted on a wooden sarcophagus panel standing between stylize...

Egypt, Roman Period, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. A sensitively modeled head of a youth wearing a hooded garment whose sculptor was clearly gifted with ...

Roman Egypt, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A veristic portrait of a woman stylistically related to Greco-Roman painting, though created for a strictl...

Greece, Cycladic (final Neolithic) period, ca. 2600 to 2300 BCE. A collection of four stone leg fragments, each showing the area around the knee, ...

Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 100 to 30 BCE. A charming couchant wood Anubis, depicted as a jackal. The wooden sculpture has extensive remains of g...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian Period, ca. 30 BCE to 2nd century CE. A votive, mold-made redware sculpture of Apis, the sacred bull. He stands in profile,...

Egypt, Alexandria, Romano-Egyptian period, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. A mold-made terracotta double flask unguentarium, decorated with...

Roman controlled Egypt, Late Ptolemaic to Roman Period, ca. 1st Century BCE to 1st Century CE. An intriguing cast bronze sculptural piece, probabl...

Egypt during Roman Era, Roman/Coptic, ca. 2nd to 3rd c CE. A stylized depiction of a diminutive female figure carved from bone with incised detail...

Early Greece, Cycladic, ca. 3000 to 2000 BCE. A finely carved, petite, white marble foot, unusual as it is a complete form rather than a fragment,...

Egypt, Coptic, ca. 4th to 5th century CE. A fine example of a Coptic textile garment, this tunic presents a decorative border around the sleeves, ...

Egypt, Romano-Egyptian Period, ca.3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE. A very rare, miniature red and turquoise paste glass vessel of a sweet form c...

Central Europe, Danube Region, possibly Ottomány (Otomani) culture, Late Bronze Age, ca. 1500 BCE. This is one of our favorite pieces, a beautiful...

Greece, Mycenaean Period, Late Bronze Age II, ca. 1450 to 1200 BCE. A gorgeous ceramic pouring vessel with horizontal narrow loop handles on eithe...

Cyprus, Iron Age, ca. 750 BCE. An exemplar of Greek Cypriot pottery that preceded the emergence of Classical Greek pottery, with an ovoid body, co...

Eastern Greek, Late Geometric Period, ca. 900 to 700 BCE. A superb example of pottery from the Geometric period - expertly turned, decorated, and ...

Northwestern Greece, ca. late 6th to 5th centuries BCE. A war helmet made of hammered bronze sheet, with a rectilinear opening for the face, long,...

Greece, Geometric Period, ca. 7th century BCE. A pair of gorgeous coiled bronze bracelets, each with overlapping and slightly tapered ends, carina...

Greece, 6th to 5th century BCE. A striking cast bronze object in the form of a griffin head clutching a thick bronze ring in his beak. The ring sw...

Greece, Corinth, Rhodes, or eastern Greece, Archaic period, 600 BCE. A gorgeous aryballos in the shape of a warriors' head, complete with geometri...

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 6th century BCE. A petite pottery oil vessel of a graceful form comprised of a bulbous body, narrow neck, flared rim, ...

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

Greece, Archaic, ca. 6th to 5th century BCE. Presenting the characteristic abstract stylings of the Geometric period, a ceramic horse standing squ...

Greece, Attica, Athens AR Tetradrachm, (17.2 grams), ca. 454 to 404 BCE. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet ornamented with three ...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Tarantum, ca. 5th c. BCE. A mold-made ornamental element for the roof of a temple presenting a relief of a female face...

Greece, Hellenistic period, ca. 4th to 3rd centuries BCE. A beautiful askos, a vessel with a flattened, triangular shape and a projecting spout at...

Greek colonies, Lucania, Velia, ca. 400 to 350 BCE. AR didrachma (7.77 g). On the obverse is a helmeted head of Athena facing left. On the reverse...

Magna Graecia, Adriatic Sea region, ca. 5th to 4th century BCE. A striking Chalcidian helmet comprised of hammered tinned bronze, so named as this...

Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd to 2nd entury BCE. A breathtaking gilded silver rhyton with high relief motifs executed in repousse; from top to botto...

Greek Asia Minor, Pamphylia, Aspendos, ca. 380/75 to 330/25 BCE. AR stater (10. 8g). On obverse, two wrestlers; the l. one holds the l. arm of his...

Classical World, Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, ca. 4th century BCE. A black-glazed pottery guttos (oil pouring vessel) of a characteris...

Classical World, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 360 to 325 BCE. This pottery oinochoe (pouring vessel) has a trefoil lip and a delicat...

Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A very fine pottery wine cup (skyphos) presenting a classic silhouette, with a remarkab...

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Apulia, Canosan, ca. late 4th century to early 3rd century BCE. A stunning funerary patera comprised of orange terr...

Greek/Macedon, Philip II, 359 to 336 BCE. AV stater (8.5 grams). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. Charioteer driving chariot drawn by two re...

Magna Graecia, Italy, Apulia, Daunian, ca. 4th century BCE. A terracotta kyathos (dipper) with a wide, zoomorphic strap handle capped by twin horn...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A ceramic volute krater of classic form: handles with molded Medusa mask termini on both s...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Campanian, CA Painter school, probably Painter of New York GR 1000, ca. 340 to 330 BCE. A monumental hydria of a prist...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, ca. 350 BCE. A ceramic fish plate of a classic pinax or pinakion (meaning tablet for its shape) form with thr...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulia, attributed to White Sakkos Painter, a pupil of the Baltimore Painter, ca. 320 to 310 BCE. A stunning pottery a...

Greece, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A Greek red-figure plate on a raised foot featuring a "Lady of Fashion" wearing...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Apulian, attributed to the Strotgen Painter, ca. 340 to 330 BCE. A masterful Apulian red-figure volute-krater (mixing ...

Magna Graecia, South Italy, Campanian, Cumae B, Nicholson Painter's workshop, ca. 325 to 320 BCE. A monumental calyx krater of a graceful form w/ ...

Southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 325 BCE. This is a beautiful kylix, a drinking cup, with two raised handles extending from near the rim and a pronounc...

Greek, Hellenistic, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A stunning diadem featuring gold laurel leaves with embossed lanceolate leaves, each one carefully...