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Late Bronze Age Sword from France with Golden Lustre
Located in London, GB
This sleek and extremely well-preserved sword is an icon of warrior culture from the Late Bronze Age. Its finely incised decoration and near perfect form creates a timeless and elega...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier French Mounted Objects
Materials
Bronze
Ancient Greek Wedding Vase with Geometric and Vegetal Motifs
Located in London, GB
This elegantly proportioned vase is an unusually large and well-preserved example of a ceremonial nuptial vessel produced in South Italy during the 3rd to 4th centuries BC. Decorated...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Urns
Materials
Pottery
Monumental Ancient Cypriot Limestone Sculpture of a Man
Located in London, GB
This imposing and impressive head of a man would once have been part of a monumental votive statue dedicated in a temple in antiquity. Commissioned by a wealthy patron, it is an icon...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Busts
Materials
Limestone
Ancient Greek Trophy Armour with Original Inscription
Located in London, GB
This ancient Greek greave - or shin pad - transformed into a trophy of war through its inscription, is an enigmatic and iconic display piece. Finely made to protect the left shin, th...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Greek Minimalist Mounted Objects
Materials
Bronze
Gallo-Roman Twisted Green Translucent Glass Jar
Located in London, GB
This finely preserved Gallo-Roman glass jar dates to the mid-1st to mid-2nd century AD and represents a superb example of early Roman glassblowing. Crafted from translucent green gla...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Minimalist Glass
Materials
Blown Glass
Large and Sculptural Stony Meteorite
Located in London, GB
This strikingly large chondrite meteorite featuring dramatic thumb-print impressions (regmaglypts) and a lustrous surface, is a rare and oriented natural sculpture from outer space....
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Moroccan Minimalist Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Fossilised Dinosaur Skin with Hexagonal Scales
Located in London, GB
This exceptional specimen of fossilised dinosaur skin preserves the hexagonal scales of a Brachylophosaurus (‘short-crested lizard’), giving us a rare snapshot of life 80 million yea...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Monolithic Meteorite - Extraterrestrial Sculpture
Located in London, GB
This remarkable stony meteorite is a striking extraterrestrial sculpture, shaped by its journey through space. Almost monolithic in form, its minimal aesthetic gives it striking simi...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier North African Minimalist Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Ancient Greek Black Glaze Wine Cup
Located in London, GB
This exquisite black-glaze kantharos, or wine cup, is a wonderful example of the refined simplicity that characterises the artistic achievements of the Ancient Greeks. Its upper sect...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Puddingstone Mill from Roman France
Located in London, GB
Carved from a mosaic-like rock, this striking sculpture is the lower grinding stone from a Gallo-Roman millstone - a powerful and aesthetic symbol of life two millennia ago. It is ma...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier French Classical Roman Mounted Objects
Materials
Stone
Iron Meteorite Sphere with Crystalline Structure
Located in London, GB
This polished extraterrestrial iron sphere is a fascinating display piece, dating back to the formation of the Solar System and from the core of a large asteroid. Carved from the fa...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Black-Green Spotted Martian Meteorite
Located in London, GB
This striking meteorite slice is perfectly polished to reveal the mesmerising green-black crystalline interior unique to the Martian surface. This specimen belongs to the rare class ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier North African Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Fossilised Cedar Wood Cross-Section
Located in London, GB
This spectacular, almost heart-shaped cross-section of fossilised incense cedar wood is a beautifully aesthetic display piece, with vibrant hues of browns, oranges and creams, as wel...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Petrified Wood
T. Rex Tooth in Fossil Matrix
Located in London, GB
This exceptional Tyrannosaurus Rex tooth, embedded in a sedimentary matrix and surrounded by the jumbled remains of other dinosaurs, is a strik...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
$120,000
Polished Roman Marble Head of a Satyr
Located in London, GB
This finely polished Roman marble head of a satyr is an impressive and characterful sculpture. Depicted with full, parted lips, with teeth visible in between, a pointed goat’s ear, t...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Roman Busts
Materials
Marble
Translucent Desert Glass from Meteorite Impact
Located in London, GB
This strikingly translucent piece of Libyan Desert Glass is a remarkable example of a mysterious natural phenomenon, and striking display piece. It formed when a meteorite impact in ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass
Ancient Greek Glass Ring
Located in London, GB
This beautifully preserved Hellenistic glass ring is a timeless and stunning piece of ancient jewellery. Cast from transparent, light green glass, its large size and oval bezel - ori...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Glass
Materials
Glass
$17,000
Fossilised Wood with Blue-Green Highlights
Located in London, GB
This striking fossilised wood cross-section, dating to the Miocene epoch (23-5 million years ago) and featuring paint-like streaks of greens, blues and browns, is a beautiful natural history specimen and impactful display piece.
This is a magnificent example of the results of permineralisation, a process through which buried wood tissue, permeated by minerals transported in water, can transform into vibrant fossils. This particular example has fossilised over a copper deposit, resulting in the bright inclusions of copper minerals that manifest as impressive streaks of blue, green and red. This distinctive colouration is unique to Colla wood...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Other
Roman Marble Foot with Sandal
Located in London, GB
This evocative Roman marble foot fragment is a timeless remnant of the overlifesized sculpture it was once part of. Sensitively carved and polished, the outer sole of the sandal rema...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Roman Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Greyish-White Lunar Meteorite Fragment
Located in London, GB
This beautifully polished lunar meteorite fragment is a precious but powerful display piece, offering both extraterrestrial provenance and striking natural beauty. This specimen is f...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Ancient Greek Black Glaze Mug
Located in London, GB
This strikingly modern ancient Greek mug is a sleek and elegant example of Attic black-glaze pottery at its height. Developing in Athens in the 8th cent...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Greek Jars
Materials
Pottery
Roman Turquoise-Blue Glass Cup
Located in London, GB
This vibrant, exquisitely well-preserved piece of Roman glassware, with a gently flared lip and cone-shaped foot, was hand blown 2000 years ago. Its maker, evidently an artisan of pa...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Classical Roman Glass
Materials
Glass
Reflective Meteorite Slice with Peridot Crystals
Located in London, GB
This remarkable object, displaying a mesmerising honeycomb structure of shimmering peridot crystals suspended in an iron-nickel matrix, is a complete cross-section of the famous pall...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Mosaic-like Lunar Meteorite Cross Section
Located in London, GB
This spectacular polished slice of the Lunar meteorite Gadamis 004, reveals a mosaic-like interior, evoking the surface of the Moon as seen by the eye on a clear night. Weighing 149 ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Sculptural Meteorite Fragment from the Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
Located in London, GB
From the largest meteorite shower in recorded history, this impressive iron fragment is a beautiful natural sculpture from the Sikhote-Alin meteorite. Formed 4.5 billion years ago, i...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Ancient Greek Black-Glaze Perfume Bottle
Located in London, GB
This sleek, black-glaze perfume pot dates to the 5th century BC and exemplifies the elegance of Athenian ceramic production in Ancient Greece. With a gently rounded body, and flared ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Roman Marble Head Fragment
Located in London, GB
This fine Roman marble head fragment, with broad nose, soft lips, and bearded chin, captures the likeness of one of the most important playwrights of...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Busts
Materials
Marble
$46,000
Egyptian Stone Relief of Man and Wife
Located in London, GB
This painted limestone relief is an exquisite example of New Kingdom relief carving from the apogee of Egyptian artistic production. Carved in raised relief - a labour-intensive tech...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Busts
Materials
Limestone
Late Bronze Age Sword
Located in London, GB
Saint Nazaire Sword, Late Bronze Age, circa 800-900 B.C.
An exceptionally well preserved Bronze Age sword, with elegant, finely incised decorations,...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
$75,000
Sculptural Oriented Meteorite
Located in London, GB
Oriented Chondrite Meteorite Circa 4.56 Billion y/o
Chondrite
24 x 20 cm, 28 cm tall on base
7.1 kg
A sculptural and beautifully weathered chondrite meteorite; upon entering the atmosphere, this extraterrestrial stone would have heated the surrounding air to a temperature of over 1700 C, higher than that of the hottest lava on the planet, and enough to melt away its outer layers, leaving its surface rippled with regmaglypts, thumb-shaped impressions formed as superheated rock streaked off of the main body as it careened toward the earth. The last layer of the rock to melt would have re-solidified as the meteorite made impact, forming a charcoal coloured fusion crust, which has taken on a deep ochre-tinted patina.
Chondrite meteorites such as this example were formed at the very beginning of our solar system, by the accretion of various types of dust and small grains, adrift in the vacuum of space and, as such, provide important clues about the birth of our own planet. This piece is an especially rare specimen, known as an oriented meteorite...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
Oriented Stone Meteorite
Located in London, GB
Oriented Stone Meteorite
Chondrite
5.00 kg
Detached from its parent body by a mighty impact, this large, oriented Meteorite travelled over a hu...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier North African Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone
$46,500
Roman Marble Statuette of Jupiter
Located in London, GB
Roman Marble Fragment of jupiter
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
Measure: Height: 19.7 cm
This beautiful Roman fragmentary statuette depicts Jupiter, the king of the gods, here recognisable from his two chief attributes, the eagle with outstretched wings - according the Pseudo-Hyginus, singled out by Jupiter because ''it alone, men say, strives to fly straight into the rays of the rising sun'' - and the base of the scepter, which remains at the side of the left foot, an aspect likely borrowed from the statue of Zeus at Olympia, once one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Though much of the original piece has been lost, the subtle anatomical detail in the feet mark this out as a piece of exceptional quality, and the work of an artist of particular talent and patience - as Johann Winckelmann once said of the famous Belvedere Torso, ''if you contemplate this with a quiet eye [...] the god will at once become visible in this stone.''
This fragment once caught the eye of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle (1694-1758), a Knight of the Garter and among the most prolific collectors of his day. The piece, acquired during his travels to Rome, was proudly displayed on an alcove of the Western Staircase of Castle Howard...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Figurative Scul...
Materials
Marble
Petrified Conifer Wood from Arizona
Located in London, GB
A large section of a petrified conifer tree trunk, (Araucarioxylon arizonicum) from Northern Arizona, dating to the Triassic period, circa 225 million years ago.
Over hundreds of m...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Quartz
Meteorite Impact Desert Glass
Located in London, GB
Libyan Desert Glass
Circa 29 Million y/o
Height: 9.5 cm
A beautiful, tactile piece of yellow glass, found between the high crested dunes of the Libyan De...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Libyan Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass
