Large Canaanite Olive Oil Jar with a Dipper Holder
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Large Canaanite Olive Oil Jar with a Dipper Holder

Large Canaanite chocolate and white ware, ancient Canaanite pottery corresponding to the Late Bronze Age of approximately 1530 B.C.E. – 1480 B.C.E. Narrow base rises to wide smooth shoulders, topped by slightly flared neck with straight-rimmed mouth. Monochrome paint patterns in four distinct rings on vase’s top half, interspersed with four stylized palm trees. Base structure of three loops, each painted with four short straight lines, serves as tripod stand.

 

REFERENCE #

KB_PT_2878

CIVILIZATION

Early Bronze Age I, 3500 B.C.E. – 3000 B.C.E.

SIZE

H. 34.5 cm

CONDITION

Fine condition

PRICE

Price available upon request

Leaf from an Illuminated Manuscript in Latin - Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae
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Leaf from an Illuminated Manuscript in Latin – Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

An Illuminated Manuscript On Vellum [Italy (Perhaps Florence), Fourteenth Century] a leaf, 315mm. by 230mm., 22 lines in a high grade angular bookhand, initials formed from ornamental penstrokes and separated from beginning of lines of verse, full border of the continuous gloss of the early fourteenth-century English author William Wheatley (see below) in smaller hand, rubrics and paragraph marks in red, two illuminated initials on blue or pink grounds with scrolling coloured acanthus leaves and large teardrop-like bezants, recovered from the binding of a series of Florentine historical works, partly by the Florentine humanist Matteo Palmieri, with sixteenth-century inscriptions identifying those works on its blank back, with scuffs, rubbing to initials, folds and small holes in places (with minor affect to 3 of glosses), overall in fair and presentable condition.

Reference #

MS_BZ_1010

Civilization

Byzantine, Medieval , 1400 C.E.

Size

H. 31.5 cm x W. 23 cm

Condition

Overall in fair and presentable condition

Price

Price available upon request

Provenance

Baidun Collection, acquired at Sotheby’s sale December 2013

 

List of the Patriarchs of AntiochLIST OF THE PATRIARCHS OF ANTIOCH
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List of the Patriarchs of Antioch

ANTIOCH preceded by the end of a list of the PATRIARCHS OF ALEXANDRIA and followed by a list of the canonical books of the Bible, in Greek, bifolium from a MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Greece?, mid- to late- 10th century] 196 x 153mm. 17 lines ruled in blind written in brown ink in a fine and formal Greek minuscule, headings in uncials, modern foliation 46-47. In a modern cloth binding.

Provenance: (a) the conservative character of the writing is very marked, as is customary with the codices vetustissimi and vetusti of the 9th – 13th centuries. The minuscule slants slightly to the right, the breathings are square and the accents precise, and there is no enlargement of certain letters and intermixing with uncial forms as tends to happen in later centuries, all indicating a possible dating to the 10th century. The list of the Patriarchs of Alexandria ends with Peter IV (642-651), while the list of the Patriarchs of Antioch ends with Anastasius II (599-610), and the scribe has left space for 9 and 10 more names respectively, which would suggest he was copying the text from an earlier manuscript and writing a few centuries after the names listed. (b) ANDRe ROORYCK (1923-2010), sold at Sotheby’s, 5 July 2005, lot 7. An interesting and early bifolium from what would probably have been a compendium of useful religious dates, events, and lists relating to the Greek Orthodox Church. George I (621-630), Cyrus (631-641) and Peter IV (642-651) close the list of Patriarchs of Alexandria (following the Greek Orthodox as opposed to the Coptic Orthodox tradition, after the schism of 536), while the Patriarchs of Antioch run from Peter the Apostle (c.37 – 53) to Anastasius II (599-610).

Reference #

MS_BZ_1003

Civilization

Byzantine

Size

L. 19.6 cm, W. 15.3 cm

Condition

Fine Condition

Price

Price available upon request

Provenance

Baidun Collection

Luristan Master-of-Animals Finial Standard
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Luristan Master-of-Animals Finial Standard

The area of Luristan, in western Iran, was home to a rich tradition of bronze-working in the early part of the first millennium B.C.E., producing an array of finely-crafted and distinctive objects unique to the region. This intricately-cast standard finial was originally intended to sit atop a ceremonial staff to be carried in a procession; the bell-shaped socket at the lower end was designed to enable attachment.

The finial represents, in highly stylized form, the ‘Master of Animals’, a deity considered ancient even at the time this piece was made, and who probably had origins in Stone Age hunters’ cults. The figure has a cylindrical body, with three faces along its length. With a pair of slender arms, it fends off two serpent-like creatures. The lowest part of the figure has an exaggerated, oval-shaped torso and stands on a pair of short, bowed legs.

 

REFERENCE #

SI_PR_1016

CIVILIZATION

Persian, 1st millennium B.C.E.

SIZE

H. 35cm

CONDITION

Fine Condition

PRICE

SOLD

PROVENANCE

Private UK collection, late 1970’s.

Monumental Imperial Roman Marble Eagle
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Monumental Imperial Roman Marble Eagle

Description

A large and imposing majestic Roman marble eagle, straight gaze, with its wings spread and legs bent preparing to take flight

REFERENCE #

SI_RM_1100

CIVILIZATION

Roman, 100 C.E. – 200 C.E.

SIZE

H. 64 cm

CONDITION

The beak is restored, otherwise in perfect condition.

PRICE

Price available upon request

PROVENANCE

French Private Collection purchased in Paris in the 1970’s.