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The hemispherical pottery bowls of this type were a successful export good of Late Bronze Age Cyprus. They are nicely decorated with bands of hatch-patterns.

Very nicely preserved. From an old German private collection, acquired in the early 1950s.

Great example of the intricately designed vessels of the Peruvian Chimú culture, decorated with a monkey and birds. The squash was an important fruit in the pre-Columbian Kingdom of Chimor.

Plastically shaped vessel from the Peruvian Chimú culture, showing a water bird. From the 15th century. With TL report from 1979.

Figure of Priapus, god of fertility and protector of male genitalia, as bearded older man in heavy robes, his hands exposing his phallus.

Plastically shaped vessel from the Peruvian Chimú culture. It embodies an important agricultural product of the pre-Columbian civilization of Chimor. With TL report from 1979. Part of a special exhibition from 2024 to 2025.

Athenian or Greek colony in Southern Italy. Almost perfectly preserved, intense patina. Since 1954 in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art, USA.

Impressive jar from the 1st or 2nd century AD. Great condition for ancient glass of this size. 26cm high.

Hellenistic Greece or Egypt under Roman rule. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.

An almost identical, however less well preserved herm in on exhibition in the J. Paul Getty Museum. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.

So-called Bilbil jugs of the Base Ring I ware. A testament to the opium trade of the late Bronze Age.