12960. FINE EGYPTIAN SARCOPHAGUS. Late Period, 712-332 BC. 72 inches in height. With vertical rows of hieroglyphs both front and back. Some areas of paint loss on back of head. In custom plexiglas case. A classic, very finely carved and painted Egyptian sarcophagus. No repair or restoration or repainting. Provenance: The property of a wealthy Northeastern collector. Purchased in the late 1960's from a Manhattan antiquities dealer. Side view. Side view. Back view. Oblique view.

Price on request.

11597. EGYPTIAN MUMMY MASK, 1st millennium BC. 13 h x 15 w x 10 d inches. Very finely styled exempt with detailed designs in gold leaf and gesso on embossed linen. Of very unusual 3-dimensional form with head protruding naturally forward from the neck. Provenance: The European antiquities market. Recently imported into the US where it was inspected and cleared by US customs thus legally in the country. Left side. Right side. Top. Back.

Price on request.

SOLD.

Price On Request.

Price On Request.

SOLD.

$65,000.

7302. AN IMPORTANT COPTIC LEATHER SHOE. Egypt, c. 4th-6th century. The shoe of very fine manufacture with ornate thin leather strips attached, many with remains of gilding. Excellent condition considering its age. 3.5 x 8.5 inches. Exceptionally rare, a museum quality artifact.

$6500.

$12,500.

10629. ANCIENT JUDAEAN CARVED LIMESTONE RELIEF WITH MENORAH, c. 1st century BC/AD. 10.5"h x 19"l x 4"d. An exceptional and imposing piece of ancient Judaica. Provenance: The Arthur M. Sackler collection. Collected in the 1970's or earlier. Possibly published in one of the dozen or so books documenting the Sackler collection. Closeup. Side. Back.

SOLD.

10635. FINELY ENGRAVED ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BRONZE BOWL. c. 1st millennium BC. With running ibex and reeded decoration, 3.25"h x 8.25"dia. Provenance: The Arthur M. Sackler collection. Collected in the 1970's or earlier. Possibly published in one of the dozen or so books documenting the Sackler collection. Closeup. Bottom.

$14,500.

8675. A VERY LARGE CYPRIOT BICHROME WARE AMPHORA FROM THE CESNOLA COLLECTION. Cypro-Archaic, 750-600 BC. The tall ovoid body tapering to a narrow flat base, slightly flared straight neck with flat rim, the neck and body decorated with thin bands and concentric circles. 20 x 26 inches. Intact. Provenance: Acquired by Luigi Palma di Cesnola in Cyprus 1865-1873, thence whereabouts uncertain - possibly The Metropolitan Museum of Art, sold at auction by Harmer Rooke Galleries in 1996 to the present owner. Luigi Palma di Cesnola was US Consul to Cyprus 1865-1873. He was born in Northern Italy in 1832. He was trained at the Military Academy of Savoy but for some unknown reason was discharged and left Italy. He served in the British Army during the Crimean War and travelled extensively in the Ottoman Empire. He moved to New York in 1858 and married in 1861. As an experienced soldier he joined the Union forces during the Civil War and retired with the rank of colonel in 1864. 'General' Cesnola was then appointed US Consul to Cyprus in 1865. There Cesnola became interested in ancient art and began purchasing antiquites and even funding teams of diggers. During his stay in Cyprus Cesnola formed a huge collection and managed to circumvent Constantinople's ban on export of antiquities through his excellent relationship with Said Pasha, the Governor of Cyprus. Eventually he shipped 200 cases containing tens of thousands of antiquities back to the US. There he sold 4,426 objects in two installments to the newly established Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and was appointed the first Director of the Museum. Many of these objects were later deaccessioned and sold at auction. A large and impressive piece with excellent provenance!

$6500.

11541. MAYAN CARVED JADE PENDANT. 3.5 cm. High quality genuine jade. Provenance: An Italian collection collected mostly 30-40 years ago by the family in Buenos Aires. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

Price on request.

11540. LARGE MAYAN QUICHE URN WITH SPOTTED JAGUARS. 64 x 60 cm. Some repair of shards but general excellent condition. A huge museum quality piece worthy of the finest collection. Provenance: An Italian collection collected by the family of the current owner in the 1950's in Buenos Aires. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

SOLD.

11539. LARGE MAYAN QUICHE URN WITH SIDE FLANGES. 64 x 53 cm. Left side flange reattached with breaks otherwise excellent condition. A huge museum quality piece worthy of the finest collection. Provenance: An Italian collection collected by the family of the current owner in the 1950's in Buenos Aires. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

SOLD.

11533. VERACRUZ STONE YOKE. 41 x 38 x 10 cm. Choice condition. Provenance: An Italian collection collected by the family of the current owner in the 1950's in Buenos Aires. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

$15,000

11532. MAYAN STUCCO HEAD. Late Classic period, 550-950 AD. 23 x 21 cm. With traces of original pigment including the famous Mayan blue. Provenance: An Italian collection. Purchased at Sotheby's New York, Nov. 24, 1997. Donated to Denver Museum of Art in 1970. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer. Right side. Sotheby's listing.

SOLD.

11531. MAYAN DEER VESSEL. 34 x 25 cm. Excellent condition. Provenance: An Italian collection collected by the family of the current owner in the early 1970's in Buenos Aires. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

$10,000

$7500.

9930. A FINE COLIMA DOG. Mexico, ca. 200 AD. The charming plump puppy in an alert pose with ears pricked, his tail doubling as a spout, the whole with a burnished reddish black surface with incised facial detail. 5.25 x 8 inches. Choice intact, and in excellent condition. An especially cute example. Provenance: Purchased by the present owner from a major New York City antiquities dealer in the 1990's.

Festured on a TV show for Animal Planet called 'Too Cute' in the episode that features Chihuahua dogs. Colima Dogs, or Techichi dogs are the ancestors of Chihuahuas.

$3500.

$3500.

$4500.

$6500.

SOLD.

$6500.

$4500.

$4500.

$7500.

$3500.

$3500.

Price on request.

$8500.

12885. BEAUTIFUL MUGHAL JADE LOTUS DISH. India, Mughal period, 17th-18th century. 7.25 x 7.25 x 4 inches. Beautifully carved from pale celadon jade with touches of red in the form of open lotus blossoms, the top handle in the form of a lotus seed pod. Excellent condition. Similar Mughal jade bowls and dishes have brought well over $100,000 at Christie's and Sotheby's. Provenance: A midwestern collection. Reverse view. Oblique view. Lid top. Open view. Bottom view.

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$35,000

$49,500

11513. LARGE GANDHARAN BODHISATTVA. 1st-2nd century AD. 32 inches height. Provenance: Good and legal provenance provided to buyer. Enlargement. Right Side. Left side. Back.

$27,500.

11112. LARGE HAN DYNASTY FLYING HORSE. Accompanied by an Oxford laboratories TL certificate. Hoof to top of head 42.5", Back hoof to front hoof 46.5", Depth 9". More information and photos pending. Another view.

Price On Request.

Price On Request.

6938. PUBLISHED IMPORTANT GREY POTTERY FIGURE OF A HORSE. Han Dynasty, 207 BC - 220 AD. The massive horse powerfully modeled with erect posture. The rounded neck with hogged mane reaching up between the alert ears. The head strongly detailed with flared nostrils and open mouth revealing the teeth. 25x30", 40 lbs. Remains of white slip under ancient soil. Separately made head inserts into body. Han tomb figures of large size have been found in human figures, chicken, pigs and dogs but horses are very rare. A similar figure 37" high was sold by Sotheby's March '97 for $48,300. Both these pottery horses can be compared to an even larger bronze horse discovered in tomb #2 at Hejiashan, Jinyang in Sichuan. Wenmen, 1991, #3, pl. III, and p. 9. Extremely rare. Published in "Oriental Antiques & Art, An Identification and Price Guide, 2nd Edition" by Mark Moran & Sandra Andacht, page 123.

SOLD.

$27,500.

11096. PAIR OF SUI DYNASTY GLAZED FIGURES OF BEARDED FOREIGN WARRIORS, China, 581-618 AD. Both soldiers dressed in helmets and armor resting their shields. 5.5 x 18 inches. The figures with rare straw glaze. Both figures intact. Comes with Oxford labs TL test certificate number C199K34.

$7500.

$9500.

$12,500.

SOLD.

$6500.

$2750.

$2750.

9130. SUPERB PUBLISHED JAPANESE IVORY FIGURE, ca. late 19th, early 20th century. The wonderful polychromed figure of a yukata clad man holding a fan and a birdcage with door that opens to reveal a songbird inside. 12.75 inches. Signature carved on the bottom of one sandal. Rendered in the finest style from the face which is filled with an expression of serene joy to the minute carefully incised details which hold the polychrome. On curled rosewood base. Published in "Oriental Antiques & Art, An Identification and Price Guide, 2nd Edition" by Mark Moran & Sandra Andacht, page 248.

$4500.

SOLD.

8403. A PAINTING FROM THE COLLECTION OF H.H. THE MAHARAJA OF JAIPUR, c. 1910. Superbly done scene of a yellow saffron crocus. 4.5 x 6". A true masterwork rendered with a single hair brush. Must be seen to be appreciated. There were two paintings in this collection from the same hand, one with the official seal of the Maharaja of Jaipur. This one unfortunately does not carry his seal. Enlargement.

$1450.

11392. FINE SUKHOTHAI HEAD OF A BUDDHA, Sukhothai, Thailand, 15th-16th century. The piece has the typical large hair curls and flame finial typical of the period, as are the high arched eyebrows, downcast eyes, thin nose, edged lips, and long, slightly flaring earlobes. Sukhothai images have an elegant, ethereal appearance that shows the calmness of the Buddha. Sukhothai images are highly original in form, with few identified antecedents, but although fairly short-lived, the style had a major impact on subsequent Thai art. Accompanied by copy of an email from the Curator for Southeast Asian Art at the British Museum authenticating the piece and its dating. Copy will be provided to the buyer. For additional information refer to Hiram Woodward's 'The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand', which has substantial sections on Sukhothai and the following Ayutthaya period with images. Left side. Back. Right side.

SOLD.

11457. STUCCO HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA. Gandhara, 1st-2nd century AD. 18 h x 10 w x 10 d inches. Traces of original white glaze and red pigment. On custom stand. A museum quality piece worthy of the finest collection. Provenance: Property of a New Jersey collector. Right side. Left side.

Price on request.

11461. PANCIKA AND HARITI. Gandhara, 1st-2nd century AD. 9.5 h x 8 w inches. Carved in grey shist. On custom stand. Provenance: Property of a New Jersey collector. Wikipedia reference with a nearly identical piece from the British Museum.

$4750.

11470. EXQUISITELY CARVED MUGHAL FAI JALI (BALUSTRADE) SECTION. Mughal India, 16th-17th century. 14 h x 36 w inches. 55 lbs. Carved in fine marble openwork with calligraphic style flowers and leaves. Post knob reattached otherwise intact. Very fine highly polished white marble. The rough material on the left side and traces on the piece itself is plaster or cement which might be best removed. Reminiscent of the same style and workmanship used in the Taj Mahal. Provenance: Property of a New Jersey collector.

SOLD.

11425. HEAD OF A BUDDHIST PRINCE. India c. 10-11th century AD. Large carved limestone head of a Buddhist prince with Buddhist topknot and wide mustache. 17 x 9 x 8 inches. 50 lbs. On sturdy custom black steel stand. Right side. Left side.

$12,500.

11426. INDIAN STONE FRIEZE. India c. 10-11th century AD. Substantial stone frieze of a heavily breasted four armed goddess holding her attributes and surrounded by attendants. 7 x 14 x 20 inches. 103 lbs. Two heavy steel posts in base ready for mounting. Considerably more three dimensional and with better detail than photo shows. Right side.

$12,500.

11120. FINE ATTIC RED FIGURE LEKYTHOS ATTRIBUTED TO THE BOWDOIN PAINTER EX CHRISTIE'S. Athens, Greece, 5th century BC. Ex Christie's Antiquities sale 6 July 1994.

$12,500. .

SOLD.

11097. APULIAN GREEK RED FIGURE COLUMN KRATER, South Italy, 3rd century AD. Side A depicts a naked running satyr wearing a wreath and holding a situla and laden phial looking back towards a draped maenad in pursuit holding a tympanon and thyrsos, a fillet hanging in the field. Side B depicts two youths, each holding a staff and wrapped closely in a himation facing each other. The neck of the krater covered with ivy leaf tendrils with berries. Details in added white and yellow. 12.5 x 14 inches. This pot comes with a Paris passport from the Louvre Museum.

$9500.

$4500.

$3500

$14,500.

9615. CANOSAN GREEK POLYCHROME HORSE, ca. 3rd century BC. The horse with bridle and most of the original white, blue, pink and burgundy pigment. 7 x 9.5 inches. Professional repair to legs. Extremely rare. See the nearly identical example in the Sotheby's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sale.

$6500.

$12,500.

8981. IMPORTANT GREEK ALABASTRON DEPICTING A SCENE FROM THE ILLIAD. Hellenistic, ca. 3rd-1st century BC. The alabaster perfume vessel carved in relief with Achilles dragging the body of Hector behind his chariot, ornamental floral registers above and below, traces of sheet gold overlay, remains of an ancient bronze pin embedded in small suspension? holes on the sides, the whole with light reddish iron oxide stains. 1.5 x 4.4 inches. A unique and museum quality example of fine Greek art.

$28.000.

$6500.

'Tanagras' are named after the site in Boeotia, central Greece, where thousands of similar figures were unearthed in the early 1870s. Figures of men, children and comic actors were also found at Tanagra, but standing female figures are the most numerous. The chief appeal of Tanagra figures lies in their exceptional artistic quality usually considered to be the finest of all Greek figurines. The ladies are normally depicted in casual poses and their clothes, which usually consist of a thinner undergarment, the chiton, worn beneath a thicker cloak or himation, are typically pulled and twisted in pleasing patterns which emphasize the form of the figure beneath. Most Tanagra figures are mould made and sometimes have a vent cut in the back to ensure even distribution of heat in the firing. After firing, the figure was coated in a white slip, often a solution of chalk or white clay, and then colors were added on top. The artists who produced these figures were known as coroplasts, literally 'modelers of girls'.

$4500.

7591. BEAUTIFUL CANOSAN GREEK POLYCHROME FIGURE, 3rd-2nd Century BC. Canosan refers to one of the distinctive artistic styles of the Greek colonies of Southern Italy. Canosan pottery and figurines are characterized by the use of delicate pastel painted colors rather than glazes. Due to the delicacy of such paints one rarely finds a piece where more than traces of the colors remain. The current figurine is highly exceptional in that nearly all of the original paint remains beautifully intact. An important piece worthy of the finest collection. A Canosan terra cotta figure of a lady. Beautifully modeled, she stands in contraposto stance with her left hand on her hip, right arm at her side. She wears a pink chiton or inner robe belted at the waist with the loose folds hanging to the tops of her thighs. Over this she wears a blue outer robe or himation and a blue headband. Her lips and earrings are painted red, her face and hands white, and her hair done in brown. Height: 18.3 cm. (7.2"). Condition: Choice and intact in an exceptional state of preservation. Provenance: ex Harmer Rooke Galleries in the 1980's.

$7500.

11507. A FINE MACEDONIAN GREEK SILVER PHIALE OMPHALOS, 3rd century BC., Silver and in excellent condition. 15 cm. diameter. Provenance: Good and legal provenance provided to buyer. From an old Belgian collection since the 1960's with papers. Bottom view. Close up.

Price on request.

11510. A VERY RARE GREEK IRON SWORD. 6th century BC. 61 cm length. An exceptional intact example. Ancient iron is rarely preserved this well. Provenance: Good and legal provenance provided to buyer. From an old Belgian collection dating to the 1960's. Full length side A. Full length sideB. Hilt.

Price on request.

12887. ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF HADRIAN. Rome, 2nd-3rd century AD. Portrait head of the Roman emperor Hadrian (117-138). Carved in the round from fine-grained white Roman marble with finely polished surfaces. The 33 cm. height of this piece is slightly larger than life size. It powerfully depicts the emperor with his head turned slightly turned to the left, gaze fixed straight in front of him. His face is framed by thick curly hair and beard. The forehead is broad and smooth, the thick eyebrows are rendered with finely engraved features. The eye sockets are strongly chiaroscuro and his eyes are characterized by elongated eyelids carved in relief. The powerful wide nose increases the stern visage of the emperor. The cheekbones are high and strong, the bottoms of the ears show beneath the curly hair; the mouth is slightly open; the neck has an anatomically accurate modeling. The nose, ears and a few curls are chipped otherwise in excellent original condition. Provenance: A Florentine collection, Ex Dea Moneta. Comes with a 2009 Italian export permit.

With Hadrian begins a series of imperial Roman portraits bearded in imitation of the Greek philosophers. A wonderful classic sculpture that communicates the dignity and authority of this emperor who ruled at the pinnacle of the Roman empire. Left side. Italian export permit page 1. Italian export document page 2.

Price on request.

11680. ROMAN MARBLE BUST OF A BOY, MOST LIKELY THE YOUNG NERO. 1st century AD, Julio-Claudian Period. Finely carved marble bust of a noble boy in Neronic style wearing a toga fastened with a large clasp on his left shoulder quite possibly the young Nero. Compare this nearly identical portrait of Nero as a boy from a Roman gold coin .) 40 x 34 x 17 cm. Break to right shoulder, slight chip to tip of nose, and some slight calcified deposits attesting age. Provenance: Property of an Italian family by descent. Shipped from Italy with official export document from the Italian Ministry of Culture. Left side. Back view. Right side. Export Permit page 1. Export Permit page 2.

$75,000.

12889. ROMAN NUDE MARBLE EROS. Rome, 2nd-3rd century AD. Finely carved classical statue of a winged youth representing Eros as an archer. Carved in the round from fine-grained white Roman marble. 72 x 36 cm. Provenance: A Florentine collection, Ex ACR Auctions, Munich. Comes with an Italian export permit. Right side. Front left view. Rear view. Detailed description.

Price on request.

$145,000.

$135,000

$95,000.

$95,000.

SOLD.

SOLD.

11149. A FINE ROMAN MOSAIC, c. 2nd century AD. The mosaic depicting a male torso personifying Autumn harvesting grain surrounded by a complete 3-dimensional geometric scallop pattern. Tesserae of cream marble and colored calcites. 143 x 144 cm. From the eastern Mediterranean region. Complete and all original. Provenance: Good and legal provenance with import documents provided to buyer. Old American collection, New York, acquired 1988. French private collection,

SOLD.

11619. A FINE ROMAN MOSAIC, c. 4th century AD. 155 x 154 cm. ~160 kg. The mosaic depicting the town of Bethlehem, with the name of Bethlehem denoting the city. From the eastern Mediterranean region. Some restoration with one letter of the name unrestored. An exceptionally rare ancient depiction of the birthplace of Jesus. Provenance: Good and legal provenance with import documents provided to buyer. Old American collection, New York, acquired 1988. European private collection,

Image and Price on request.

11620. A FINE ROMAN MOSAIC, c. 2nd century AD. The mosaic depicting Apollo and Amphitrite surrounded by mythical sea creatures and various species of fish with Erotes attending, the whole with a border of flowers and actor's masks. 3.35 x 3 meter. A world class museum quality mosaic worthy of the finest collection. From the eastern Mediterranean region. Complete with a few missing tesserae as yet unrestored. Provenance: Good and legal provenance with import documents provided to buyer. Old American collection, New York, acquired 1988. French private collection,

Image and Price on request.

11621. A FINE ROMAN MOSAIC, c. 2nd century AD. The mosaic depicting the myth of Lycurgus and Ambrosia within a running wave border. Lycurgus depicted in the act of killing Ambrosia with an axe as she is being transformed into a grape vine. 165 x 198 cm. From the eastern Mediterranean region. Complete and all original. Provenance: Good and legal provenance with import documents provided to buyer. Old American collection, New York, acquired 1988. French private collection,

Lycurgus of Thrace, an antagonist of Dionysus, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace, and in revenge was driven mad by the god. In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of mature ivy, and the nymph Ambrosia, who was transformed into the grapevine. There is a similar mosaic from Herculanium depicting the same myth now in the Staatliche Museum in Munich. Staatliche Lycurgus and Ambrosia.

$150,000

11622. A FINE ROMAN MOSAIC, c. 2nd century AD. The mosaic depicting nude male and female figures, likely Apollo and Aphrodite, or perhaps one of Apollo's human love interests. 100 x 108 cm. From the eastern Mediterranean region. Small areas of missing tesserae on Apollo's left thigh and the female figure's right foot. Note that the color gradient on the large image is due to uneven lighting and is not on the actual mosaic. Provenance: Good and legal provenance with import documents provided to buyer. Old American collection, New York, acquired 1988. French private collection,

SOLD.

$8500.

$4500.

$8500.

$45,000.

11526. TEMPLAR ALABASTER CHALICE. Romanesque 1160-1223. 16.5 cm high x 13.5 cm wide x 12 cm deep. Incised with Templar cross and three other crosses. Side A. Side B. Side C. Interior. Documentation. Carbon date report of contents. The Symbology of the Chalice. Provenance: An old London collection. Good and legal provenance provided to buyer.

Price on request.

$27,500.

$35,000.

SOLD.

11509. EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE MATCHING PAIR OF MEROVINGIAN FIBULAS. c. 5th-7th century AD. 18 cm length! Of very fine ornate workmanship in gilt bronze set with multiple garnets. Provenance: Good and legal provenance provided to buyer. From an old Scandinavian collection. Close up of one. Close up of the other.

Price on request.

$4500.

$4500.

$8500.

11353. EXCEPTIONAL ROMANESQUE LIMESTONE FIGURE OF CHRIST, ca. 11th-13th century. Free standing figure of Christ with right hand raised in blessing, holding an orb with the lamb of Christ in his left. 3 x 2 x 11.5 inches. Very rare. Back view. Provenance: From a large French collection of Medieval Art. Originally acquired at auction in 1986 in Aix en Provence. The title of the sale was "From Gallo-Roman Art to Romanesque Art".

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8882. TIBERIUS, 14-37 AD. Gold aureus, RIC I 25, HRIC 6a. /PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) std. r. This is the same coin type that was the Tribute Penny mentioned in the Bible except stuck in gold as an aureus rather than the usual silver denarius. Good VF with complete legends and all devices clear.

$6500

11376. THRACE, AINOS, Circa 370/69-368/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.91 g, 12h). Head of Hermes facing slightly left, wearing petasos / Goat standing right; to right, head of Hermes right, wearing flat-topped petasos. May, Ainos Group LVIII, 415 var. (A251/–), cf. 416 (A251/P296 [rev. die not illustrated); AMNG II –. VF, toned, light surface roughness and minor cleaning scratches. Provenance: Ex Gemini VI (10 January 2010), lot 79.

One of the classics of Greek Numismatic Art, and one of the coins featured in Kraay and Hirmer's wonderful 'Greek Coins' which plates examples of the finest of Greek Coins. Examples just slightly better have sold upwards of $37,000.

$17,500.

11517. VESPASIAN JR., c. 88-95 AD, struck 94/95 AD at Smyrna, Ionia. AE (17 mm, 2.321 g, 12h). Obverse: OYHΣΠAΣIANOΣ NEOTEPOC bare headed bust of Vespasian Junior right. Reverse: ΣMYPNAIΩN, Nike advancing right holding palm branch. BMC 316; RPC II 1028; Kose Plate 31 V4/R7; Vagi 1164. Dark green patina. VF. Extremely rare. RR! Only a few examples known, this one of the better ones.

After Domitian's own son died in 82 AD a successor to the throne was lacking. In order to have heirs for his title, Domitian adopted two sons of his cousin Flavius Clemens and Flavia Domitilla III (see entry above) who were his great-nephews. They were renamed Vespasianus and Domitianus. Vespasianus Jr. was originally named Titus Flavius Domitianus. However he soon realized that having potential heirs meant a potential rival and possible assassination. So he had their father Flavius Clemens executed in 95 AD and their mother Domitilla III banished and the two boys either killed or exiled though their exact fate is unknown. This act recoiled on him as he was soon murdered by Stefanus, the steward of Flavia Domitilla III. There are no known coins bearing a name or portrait for Domitian Jr., and only this single issue for Vespasian Jr.

$3750.

11450. LEO II, and Zeno, AV Tremissis, RIC 807 R3. CONOB = Constantinople mint. DN LEO ET ZENO PP AVG. Diademed bust of Leo II right. Rs. Victory with wreath and globus cruciger, 1.48 g. RIC 807 R3. GOLD, Very rare, kl Graffiti in right field. Very fine.

When Leo I named his grandson Leo II as emperor, the boy's grandmother, Aelia Verina, arranged that her son-in-law Zeno was appointed co-emperor with his son. Leo II sickened in the same year thus legitimately installing Zeno as emperor. Leo II (Latin: Flavius Leo Iunior Augustus, Leo II; (b. 467 - d. 17 November 474) was Byzantine Emperor for less than a year in 474. He was the son of Zeno and Ariadne, and maternal grandson of Leo I and Verina. As Leo's closest male relative, he was named successor upon his grandfather's death. After taking his father as colleague, he died of an unknown disease about 10 months into his reign in November, 474. It was widely rumored that he might have been poisoned by his mother Ariadne in order to bring her husband Zeno to the throne. He was indeed succeeded by his father, although his grandmother Verina took advantage of his death to conspire against Zeno.

$2750.

7669. CALIGULA, 37-41 AD. AE As. /Vesta std. l. EF. Choice example as good as they come.

$2750.

$1650.

11695. CIRCLE OF CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL, 1694-1752. Les Amours Forgerons, painted c. 1715-1720. Oil on canvas in gilt oval frame. Depicting a group of semi-naked Cherubs forging arrows for Cupid's bow under the watchful eye of Vulcan or perhaps a satyr. This painting repeats the composition of a lost work by Coypel which was painted for the Duc de Chartres, Louis d'Orleans (1703-1752). An engraving after the painting was executed by Louis Desplaces (see T. Lefrancois, Charles Coypel, p. 150, ills. P.12A). 16 inches diameter in 21 inch square frame. Provenance: A Texas old master collection. Acquired at Sotheby's sale 7345, lot 92 in 1999 (Original Sotheby's catalogue included with the painting). Sotheby's listing. Verso.

About the painter: Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) was a French painter, and like his father, he became the "Premier Peintre du Roi" (First Painter of the King) and director of the Academie Royale in 1747. Coypel also wrote comedies, tragedies, and some poetry. He was also a tapestry designer. Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum. Engraving: The Harvard Art Museum shows an engraving by Louis Desplaces (1682-1739) titled "Cupids Forging Arrows". The curious aspect is that its frame is very similar to the one of this "circle" of Coypel. Could this print be based on this painting? Coypel Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide: - Notable Site: Art Institute of Chicago - Notable Site: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia - Design of Upholstery for the Couch "Cupid Sleeping", 1725 - Notable Site: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 6 works online by Coypel - Notable Site: Louvre Museum Database, Paris - Notable Site: Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) - Notable Site: Charles-Antoine Coypel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City - Notable Site: Charles-Antoine Coypel at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Diana and Endymion, 1720s Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain Portrait of a Young Woman Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The Cowardice of Sancho at the Hunt (from the Don Quixote series).

$25,000.

12865. ALLAN RAMSAY, R.A., (of the Royal Academy), PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN BLUE COAT & WHITE STOCK. Provenance: The collection of a Southern gentleman. Verso 1. Verso 2. Verso 3.

$75,000.

12864. STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS 1937. Oil on canvas, ~3 x 4 feet including frame. Provenance: The collection of a Southern gentleman, Ex the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery (white label on back was applied at the museum with its stamp. The stamp is half on and half off the label for security. Stamped twice. The painting was relined post-1960, probably by the museum. At the time of the relining, the painting was seated in a fine Louis XIV-style gilded frame of earlier date, probably the late 19th century, in which it remains currently. The painting is oversized for the frame, so a portion of the lower interior section was removed to accommodate the painting. About 4 inches of the painting is hidden there by the frame. The tag on back reads Magyar Nemzeti Galeria Budavari Palota, which translates to Hungarian National Gallery, which is the National Museum of Hungary. Verso 1. Verso 2.

$35,000.

7575. FEDOR ENCKE, PORTRAIT OF JOHN H. HARJES, Oil on canvas, signed and dated Paris 1902. This is the companion portrait to Encke's famous portrait of J.P. Morgan painted at the same time. The two banking giants both had Encke paint their portraits at that time. Morgan's portrait was the one Encke was painting when the young Edward Steichen, at Encke's request to minimize sitting time, interrupted to take his iconic and controversial photograph of Morgan.

John H. Harjes, 1830-1914, was a prominent banker and the partner of J.P. Morgan and founder of the Morgan-Harjes Bank of Paris. He was the father of Henry H. Harjes, later banker and senior partner of the same bank who played a significant role behind the scenes in World War I by negotiating sizable loans for the Allies and by his major role in organizing relief work. Additional biographical material on Harjes can be found here.

Fedor Encke, German, 1851-1926, is a major artist whose works reside in a number of major museums in Europe and the United States.

This is an excellent large work which perfectly captures the spirit of fin de siecle opulence and financial power. Both the painting and its original ornate gilded frame are in excellent condition. Dimensions; 48 x 60" in the frame. This is an important historical painting in excellent condition which would be at home in a major museum or financial institution.

P.O.R.

7862. OLD MASTER OIL OF THE VIRGIN MARY AS QUEEN OF HEAVEN. c. 18th-19th century. Oil on canvas. She holds Easter lilies, symbols of the annunciation, a crescent moon below, crowned with nine stars around her head which is bathed in the radiant glow of the sun's halo. 24 x 28 inches in 38 x 43 inch wonderful original period frame of ornate openwork gilded gesso on wood. Excellent condition. A museum quality masterpiece. Possibly signed under frame.

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11612. THE ANGEL GABRIEL AT THE ANNUNCIATION. French or Italian, c. 16th-18th century. Oil on canvas. The Angel Gabriel holds Easter lilies, symbols of the annunciation. 22 x 28.5 inches. No visible signature. An important painting by a true master but in need of proper cleaning as it is darker than shown. Any information as to artist and date greatly appreciated. Back of canvas.

Not currently for sale.

7863. OLD MASTER JOHN THE BAPTIST. c. 18th century. Oil on canvas. The baptist depicted as a nude youth in the wilderness, finger raised to haloed cross. 16 x 18 inches. Tear on left shoulder, flaking at bottom edge and small area of upper right, otherwise in excellent condition with no repair or repainting. Old master musuem quality. Worth much more with proper restoration and cleaning.

$4250.

7969. OLD MASTER PAINTING OF KING DAVID AND THE PSALMS. French, c. 17th-19th century, oil on canvas, Unframed, 10.5 x 10.5 inches. In a circular frame bordered with gold (indicating a halo) sits King David, author of the Psalms, dressed in robes with outstretched hand holding a banner on which is written a quote from Psalm 8. ELEVATA E(st) MAGNIFICETIA (the line over the ET indicating a contraction of MAGNIFICENTIA) TVA SVP (the P with a line through the stem indicating a contraction of SVPER) CELOS DS (the line over the S indicatig a contraction of DEVS (God)). The line from Psalm 8 reads in its entirety "Domine Dominus noster quam admirabile est nomen tuum in universa terra quoniam elevata est magnificentia tua super caelos". "O LORD, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who have displayed Your glory above (upon) the heavens!" Actually the exact source of the quote as it appears on the banner ending with ëdevsí appears to be from Aquinas' "Summa contra gentiles", where it appears in this passage: Caput XXVII Quod Deus non sit forma alicuius corporis. [257] "Huic autem veritati Scripturae concordat auctoritas. Dicitur enim in Psalmo: elevata est magnificentia tua super caelos, Deus. Et Iob 8: excelsior caelo est et quid facies? Longior terra mensura eius est et profundior mari." Also in Aquinas "Expositio super Isaiam ad litteram" Cap. LIII, beginning with "quoniam". The quote also appears in the Corpus Antiphonarum Italicum: Elevata est magnificentia tua super caelos deus alleluia 2634 CGBEMVHRDFSLrwlsP Elevata est magnificentia tua super caelos deus alleluia alleluia 2634 [ROM]. Several inscriptions in black ink on the verso: ëREMIE RUGIN NANTES (France)î, ëPor E( )uginí, several other inscriptions faded or obscured by the frame. Also printed on the verso but partially obscured by the frame is ëManas( ) Papelerie/ (Ö.TIN) /No. 5í presumably refering to the Canvas maker or framer. Small tear on letter C stabilized with wax on the verso, otherwise excellent condition with bright colors and no repainting. A fine example of an Old Master painting.

SOLD.

8865. HOBART NICHOLS, 1869-1962. 'Winter Landscape With Stream'. Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 30.5 x 36.5 inches in fine old frame (a couple of flakes to frame). Finely done with especially wonderful rendering of light on snow. A listed artist whose works have sold for up to $13,000 at major auction houses. Excellent condition.

$4850.

7866. PAL FRIED, 1893-1976. NUDE PORTRAIT OF EVA. Oil on canvas, signed lower left. 24 x 30 inches. The model is Eva who was Fried's wife and a frequent model. Recorded: Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs. (Paris: Librairie Grund, 1999). Excellent condition. Provenance: Purchased by the present owner at an upscale New Jersey estate auction in 2001. This painting came from the Haussner's Gentleman's Club in the Cleveland area in the 1950's. It was taken down when women were admitted.

Pal Fried, (1893-1976) was a Hungarian American artist. Born in Budapest, he studied at the Hungarian Academy under Professor Hugo Pohl and in Paris under Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In 1947, after WW II, Fried emigrated to America where he taught at the Academy of Arts in New York and developed his own unique style. In the 1950's and 60's, Pal Fried lived and painted in Hollywood and painted high society women and celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe and the Gabor sisters. In New York, he painted portraits of Herbert Lehman, Governor and Senator from New York, Will Rogers and other notables. He is known for being an important figure painter, and most often depicted beautiful young women, nudes, ballerinas, Parisian society women, western scenes, horse racing, and an occasional seascape. His artwork has gained much deserved recognition and notoriety and has become highly collectible. Pal Fried died in New York City at his home on March 6, 1976, at the age of 82. Pal Fried always signed his paintings "FRIED PAL" even though his family name was Fried. While traveling in Spain and Africa, Fried widened and enriched his palette, which gave him mastery of light and movement. After returning to Paris, Fried concentrated on portraiture in which he also became a recognized master. He exhibited his work in M¸¸csarnok in Budapest. Many of his paintings hung in the famed Haussner Restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland. Pal Fried died in New York City at his home, 1737 York Avenue, on March 6, 1976, at the age of 82. He died only four days after the death of his beloved wife, Eva who is the subject of this painting. Eva was the model for many of Pal Fried's paintings and he painted several versions of this pose.

From the Baltimore City Paper: Nostalgia is a mighty thing, the Nose thought as we fell in with the throng thronging to Richard Opfer Auctioneering in Timonium for the Dec. 18 sale of the Haussner Collection. Haussner's, the restaurant, is dead; there's no more antelope leg or strawberry soup to be had. But Haussner's, the idea, keeps going. More than a thousand people put down a $250 deposit just to crowd into the auction house and have a try at 500 items' worth of Frances Wilke Haussner's art and other holdings. It was a banner day for Fried Pal, the artist behind the voluptuous pinup girls of the restaurant's Stag Bar. One bare-bottomed figure in a corset went for $15,000; standing in front of the Nose, Joe Werner of Towson spent $4,000 on another busty Pal pastel. He reminisced about passing through the bar's pneumatic, pink-nippled nudes as a young boy en route to the men's rest room. "The Haussner's bar introduced me to the realization that men and women were different," he said.

SOLD.

7574. NAM JUNE PAIK. Korean American (1932 - 2006). Video Automaton 'PEDO'. Over life sized electronic sculpture. Paik is THE pioneer of Video Art. His sculpture has sold from $40,000 to well over $100,000 and is featured in museums such as the Whitney. This important early piece stands 80" high and weighs some 80lb. This is an early unsigned work by Paik before he was 'discovered' and rose to fame. I lived in Manhattan and it was in the early 70's that I used to watch Paik who had a regular program on a public access channel. This piece was prominently featured in those early shows with various camera feeds etc., often of Paik himself or his surroundings, being displayed through the monitor of this piece. This could be verified by reviewing tapes of these early broadcasts if they exist. Additionally we are not aware of anyone else producing early video art such as this. As such this may be an extremely important work, perhaps the earliest extant work by Paik and thus the earliest extant work of the video art genre. Of great historical interest to the history of 20th century art. Condition: The TV does turn on, however the other electronics need repair. There is also separation of one finger. This is a very heavy, bulky piece subject to special shipping. Front view. Left side view. Back view. Right side view.

Price on request.

12863. E. TANNIN, BRONZE BUST FROM THE 1878 PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE. 17 x 34 inches. Bronze bust of the French symbol of Liberty, also known as Marianne, from the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle. Marianne was the inspiration for the France's gift America, the Statue of Liberty. This bronze closely resembles the head of Liberty, which was exhibited at the Exposition the same year. Instead of the spiked crown of the liberty statue for America, we see a laurel surmounted by a five pointed star. Symbols of the arts and industries of France are emblazoned on the sash. The bronze has its original finish but shows evidence of past over-zealous cleaning of the base. Provenance: The collection of a Southern gentleman, exhibited at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Verso 1. Verso 2. Verso 3. Verso 4. Verso 5.

$65,000.

SOLD.

11422. ORIGINAL MARBLE BUST OF OCTAVIAN CAESAR AUGUSTUS BY PIETRO TENERANI, Signed and dated "TENERANI FEC ROM 1863.". A beautifully rendered original marble bust of the first Roman emperor Augustus as a young man, perhaps while still known as Octavian before he took the title of Augustus. An original signed and dated work by the famous Neoclassical sculptor Pietro Tenerani. Size bust alone 17.5 inches (44.5cm) high x 11.5 inches (29cm) wide x 9.5 inch (24cm) deep. 21.75 inch (55.5cm) high on socle. Life sized. Provenance: In the collection of a London family for the past 100 years. Front view. Signature. Shown to Christies London which confirmed its authenticity. A serious original artwork by a famous artist.

Pietro Tenerani (1789-1869), Italian neoclassical sculptor, has works displayed in major museums such as his beautiful Psyche in a Faint in the Hermitage. He studied in the studios of both Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen and carried a neoclassical style into the mid-nineteenth century. His most prominent commission was for the tomb of Pope Pius VIII in Rome. Wikipedia article.

Price on request.

8080. SUPERB FRENCH BISQUE BUST OF MME. LAISTRE. Laistre, an. 1813 on the left side. On original ornate metal base hidden in shadow in the photos. Genevieve de Laistre, (1643-1708), daughter of the lieutenant general of the compte of Clermont, whose valuable dowry of landholdings included the chateau de Thury in the Oise, became the wife of the famous astronomer Cassini and appears as the ìMoon maidenî on Cassinií maps of the moon. This hypothesis is now reinforced by the fact that Jean Dominique commissioned a pen-and-ink portrait of his wife in 1678. The name of the artist was... Jean Baptiste Patigny, the son of the artist and engraver of the map of the Moon. Jean Dominique (Giovanni Domenico) Cassini, (1625-1712), was one of the greatest astronomers of his time, and the creator of French astronomy, " the one who picked up the torch of Astrophysics, fallen off Galileo's hands" (Andre Danjon). He was born, on June 8, 1625, in Perinaldo, a village of the hinterland between Vintimiglia and Bordighera, today in the Ligurian province of Imperia (Italy), but then in the County of Nice. After his studies at the Jesuit College at Genoa, he was named professor at the University of Bologna in 1651. His first observations were devoted to the Sun, and carried out with the meridian line, that he had built in San Petronio church. In 1673 he married Genevieve de Laistre, daughter of the Count de Clermont's lieutenant-general, who was a King's adviser, and bought the castle of Thury, near Beauvais, which became his family residence. Superb quality early 19th century French art. 8 x 17.5 inches including metal base.

$4500.

8083. WONDERFUL FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF DR. BICHAT, FOUNDER OF HISTOLOGY, SIGNED by DAVID DANGERS with Barbedienne Foundry mark. (On the back center is "F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR." and lower right is a round seal with a bearded head in the center and around it "REDUCTION MECHANIQUE COLLAS BREVETS".) 19th century. FranÁois-Xavier Bichat, French doctor and anatomist (Thoirette, 1771 - Paris, 1802). The son of a physician, he was born at Thiorette in the French Jura, and studied at Montpellier, Lyons and Paris, where he later taught, and was physician to the Hotel Dieu. He conceived the idea of the "tissues" of the body, existing in various organs and susceptible to disease in various ways. Based on numerous post mortems, he identified tissues as the basic units of life. He identified 21 types of tissues in Anatomie GÈnÈrale (General Anatomy) (1801) and TraitÈ des Membranes (Treatise on Membranes), (1800), and may therefore be considered the founder of histology. He also studied pathology. He defined life as the sum of forces resisting death. DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789-1856), usually called David dAngers, French sculptor, was born at Angers on the 12th of March 1789. His father was a sculptor, or rather a carver, but he had thrown aside the mallet and taken the musket, fighting against the Chouans of La Vende. He returned to his trade at the end of the civil war, to find his customers gone, so that young David was born into poverty. As the boy grew up his father wished to force him into some more lucrative and certain way of life. At last he succeeded in surmounting the opposition to his becoming a sculptor, and in his eighteenth year left for Paris to study the art upon a capital of eleven francs. After struggling against want for a year and a half, he succeeded in taking the prize at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. An annuity of 600 francs (~24) was granted by the municipality of his native town in 1809, and in 1811 Davids Epaminondas gained the prix de Rome. He spent five years in Rome, during which he became enamoured of the works of Canova. Returning from Rome about the time of the restoration of the Bourbons, he would not remain in the neighborhood of the Tuileries, which swarmed with foreign conquerors and returned royalists, and accordingly went to London. Here Flaxman and others visited upon him the sins of David the painter, to whom he was erroneously supposed to be related. With great difficulty he made his way to Paris again, where a comparatively prosperous career opened upon him. His medallions and busts were in much demand, and orders for monumental works also came to him. One of the best of these was that of Gutenberg at Strassburg; but those he himself valued most were the statue of Barra, a drummer boy who continued to beat his drum till the moment of death in the war in La Vende, and the monument to the Greek liberator Bozzaris, consisting in a young female figure called Reviving Greece, of which Victor Hugo said: It is difficult to see anything more beautiful in the world; this statue joins the grandeur of Pheidias to the expressive manner of Puget. Davids busts and medallions were very numerous, and among his sitters may be found not only the illustrious men and women of France, but many others both of England and Germany countries which he visited professionally in 1827 and 1829. His medallions, it is affirmed, number 500. He died on the 4th of January 1856. Davids fame rests firmly on his pediment of the Pantheon, his monument to General Gobert in Pre Lachaise and his marble Philopoemen inthe Louvre. In the Muse David at Angers is an almost complete collection of his works either in the form of copies or in the original moulds. As an example of his benevolence of character may be mentioned his rushing off to the sickbed of Rouget de Lisle, the author of the Marseillaise Hymn, modelling and arving him in marble without delay, making a lottery of the work, and sending to the poet in the extremity of need the seventy-two pounds which resulted from the sale. Excellent early French bronze of an important figure in medical history. 6 x 10 inches.

$2750.

8418. VICTORIAN BRONZE SCULPTURE OF HORACE. 19th century. 11 x 16.5 x 9 inches. 26 lbs. The great Roman poet depicted clothed in toga and wearing the poet's laurel crown, seated on a curule chair with pen and scroll on which is written "DEL ART / CHAMPETRE / HEUREUX QUI / DE SES MAINS / COMME NOS / PREMIERS PERES / CULTIVE EN PAIX / SES CHAMPS ET / VIT LIBRE / DíAFFAIRES. ORACE / ART" which roughly translates as: "Led happy pastoral art, which with their own hands our fore fathers cultivated their fields in peace and saw freedom in their affairs. Horace". Foundry stamp 3876 on back of base. Unsigned. Choice classical bronze with great detail even down to wolf heads ornamenting his sandals. Excellent condition. A masterpiece of classical Victorian sculpture.

$6500.

SOLD.

$8500.

$4500.

$6500.

7970. MASSIVE AND UNIQUE EARLY PORTUGUESE MANUSCRIPT FROM THE MILITARY RELIGIOUS ORDER OF CHRIST, SUCCESSOR TO THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, 1731-1735. Leather bound as a book. This handwritten manuscript is the archives of the Comenda of Pombal, Portugal under the jurisdiction of the Order Of Christ, the successor order to the Knights Templars which had also been centered in this area.

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$10,000.

10048. TOBACCO ROAD SIGNED BY ERSKINE CALDWELL, 1932 First Edition in very fine condition signed in a large hand by Erskine Caldwell with additional notes by my father Dr. Lyle Owen. Certainly no doubt about the signature in this case as I can personally verify it was signed by Caldwell. Provenance: Gift of my father Dr. Lyle Owen, at one time head of the Economics Department at the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

$6000.

12961. HUGE AMBER NUGGET. Sumatran amber, c. 20 million years BP. 24 kilograms, Measurements are 52 x 25 x 20 cm. The quality is excellent. This piece is free of cracks, chocolate color. Provenance: The property of a European gentleman. Originally found in Western Sumatra at a depth of 40 m. Back view. Another view. Another view.

Price on request.

12937. COLOSSAL AMBER NUGGET. Sumatran amber, c. 20 million years BP. 48 kilograms, 60 x 62 x 37 cm. Hardness on Mohs scale 2.0. Thought to be the largest amber nugget known. The largest other amber nugget we have been able to document is another piece of Sumatran amber weighing 40 kilograms in the Museum of Jakarta. Provenance: The property of a European gentleman. Originally found in Western Sumatra at a depth of 40 m. Back view. Another view. Another view.

SOLD.

12900. MASSIVE FOSSIL LEPIDODENDRON STUMP. Carboniferous, between 300 million and 450 million years old. 18 1/2 inches across the top, 11 inches high, and 56 inches in circumference. Weight ~400 lbs. Extremely rare complete Lepidodendron stump. Provenance: A Tennessee fossil collection. Found on a privately owned farm in Campbell County, Tennessee. Enlargement. Another view. Another view. Another view.

Lepidondendrons were among the first large trees to appear on earth. These long extinct tall spore-bearing trees were related to modern club mosses. They stood in a dense, swampy forest 320 million years ago during the first the appearance of land animals. These Giant Club Moss trees somewhat resembled modern palms crowned with spiky fronds. The green trunks were textured like alligator skin, giving them the name "scale bark" trees.

Price on request.

11618. MASSIVE HUGE CHONDRITE METEORITE, Most probably from the NWA (North West Africa) 869 fall. 17 kilo, 37 lbs. 10 x 8 x 8.5 inches. ~95% good fusion crust with some desert patina deposits. With a number of old (they have desert sand grains wedged in them) cracks which appear to be stable. With good regmaglypts covering 4 of the 5 sides. Exceptionally rare. Meteorites this large are almost unheard of on the market. An extremely valuable example in spite of the old cracks. Provenance: Found in the Sahara desert. Side B.

Price on request.

SOLD.

SOLD.

$3500.