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13 février 2011

Two Thousand Year Old Cat Still Looks Cool in Gold Earrings at Bonhams' Sale of Antiquities

This charming hollow cast bronze cat is shown alert, sitting upright with the tail curled to the right side. Estimate: £15,000 to £20,000. Photo: Bonhams. LONDON.- Bonhams sale of Antiquities on April 13 includes a beautiful but inscrutable Egyptian cat...

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Tags: Egyptian, Bastet, Graeco-Roman period

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8 décembre 2010

An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Ushabti of Djehuty-mose (Tothmes), Overseer of the Cattle in the Temple of Amun, 19th Dynasty

An Egyptian Polychrome Limestone Ushabti of Djehuty-mose (Tothmes), Overseer of the Cattle in the Temple of Amun, 19th Dynasty, 1292-1190 B.C. photo Sotheby's holding a djed-pillar and Knot of Isis, and wearing a pleated shirt and kilt with overfold,...

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Tags: Egyptian, 19th Dynasty, Limestone, Djehuty-mose, Ushabti

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1 décembre 2010

Christie's to Present Important Auctions of Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry in December

A Roman Marble Torso of a God or an Athlete, Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D. Estimate: $300,000 - 500,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010 NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will offer two sales of ancient art that will take place on December 9- Antiquities...

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Tags: roman emperor, Aphrodite, Egyptian, Colmar painter, kylix, Cycladic, Kudurru, Mesopotamian, Nebuchadnezzar I, Ptolemaic Period

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2 octobre 2010

An Egyptian wood and bronze goose. Late Period, circa 664-32 B.C.

An Egyptian wood and bronze goose. Late Period, circa 664-32 B.C. © 2002-2010 Bonhams 1793 Ltd., The walking bird with left leg advanced, the sinuous bronze head and neck cast with a well-defined beak and recessed nostrils, the ovoid eyes with incised...

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Tags: Egyptian, Late Period, goose

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14 mai 2010

Rare Roman Marble Relief Leads Christie's Auction of Antiquities

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the sale of Antiquities on June 10, which will offer over 150 lots with a stunning selection of Roman marbles, Greek helmets and vases, and Egyptian art. The highlight of the sale is a rare Roman marble relief from...

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Tags: bronze, helmet, Roman, Egyptian, Attic, Ramesses II, greek, red-figured, Antonine Period, neck amphora, the Berlin Painter

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22 avril 2010

A Collector's Menagerie: Animal Sculpture from the Ancient World

Bactrian stone head of a goat, 3rd millennium BC. Height: 10 cm Ever since he first drew on the walls of his cave, man has had the desire to depict the creatures around him. The Sladmore Gallery, 57 Jermyn Street, St James’s, London, is renowned for exhibiting...

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Tags: Ibis, Roman, frog, apulian, Egyptian, cat, Goat, Bactrian, Byzantine, Apis Bull, Ordos, baboon, dove, falcon, fly, vulture

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3 janvier 2010

Masterpieces of Neues Museum, Berlin

The bust of Nefertiti - Nordkuppelsaal. Neues Museum, Berlin. Armoured cavalryman. Silver, from the hacksilver find at the Lisów mill, formally Leissow, (Lisów, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland), 10th century AD. Museum of Prehistory and Early History / SMB....

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Tags: Berlin, Egyptian, Nefertiti, Neues Museum, Akhenaton, Classical Antiquities, Cypriot, Helios, Prehistory, Trojan

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21 novembre 2009

Christie's to Offer Exquisite Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry this December

A late Roman sardonyx cameo portrait of the Emperor Constantine. Circa early 4th-Century A.D. Estimate: $150,000-250,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd. 2009. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present two sales of ancient art, Antiquities and Ancient Jewelry,...

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Tags: Aphrodite, Roman, Egyptian, Attic, Venus, cameo, sardonyx, Colmar painter, Emperor Constantine, Hadrian, red-figured

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5 mai 2009

Superb Examples of Roman and Greek Art Highlight Christie's Spring Sale of Antiquities

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's is pleased to announce the sale of Antiquities on June 3, which will offer nearly 200 lots with a particularly strong selection of Roman marbles, including a handsome marble herm bust of Menander and a massive red marble labrum....

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Tags: bronze, Roman marble, apulian, Egyptian, Attic, Canaanite, Classical period, Diana, Emperor Nero, Lucanian, Menander, Sumerian

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30 avril 2009

An Egyptian bronze cat. Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.

An Egyptian bronze cat. Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C. Hollow cast, depicted seated on its haunches in alert pose, the forepaws together, the tail wrapped around the right side of the body, with incised details on the face and ear, the underside with...

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Tags: bronze, 664-332 B.C., Egyptian, Late Period, cat

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