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Roman jewellery insert made of dark glass paste. It depicts a horse with a foal. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.

Nice cup made of pale turquoise glass. Household item from the 1st to 3rd century.

Good condition, white grounding partially preserved. Acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London.

With makers mark FESTI A. Found in Southern Germany. From the collection of Hugo Rehorik (1905-1979), a voluntary archeologist who was working in the Regensburg area in the 1960s and 1970s.

With makers mark QGC. Found in Southern Germany. From the collection of Hugo Rehorik (1905-1979), a voluntary archeologist who was working in the Regensburg area in the 1960s and 1970s.

Expressive life-size clay mask from Hellenistic Greece. It depicts the character of the slave from the New Comedy, i.e. a theatre style that developed with the Hellenistic period.

The so-called Kandila perfectly illustrates why the abstract Bronze Age art of the Cyclades still fascinates us today. The parallels to modern art are unmistakable. The masterpiece comes from Elie Borowski's inventory.

Skilfully made pair of gold earrings with filigree. The ancient jewellery is from the Golden Age of the Etruscans around the 6th century BC.

A vase from the same group is on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in NYC. Very good condition. From an old German collection, acquired in the late 1950s.

A wonderful and rare example of the Bronze Age Greek art of engraving stones. It shows a fantasy creature with lion body and bird of prey head. Mid-2nd Millennium BC.

Impressive vase showing a young man and a sitting woman, possibly from the workshop of the Truro Painter.

Extremely well preserved double spectacle brooch dating to the early Iron Age in Italy. 8th cent. BC. Acquired 1989 at Casa Serodine.

The ancient intaglio from Roman times shows a scene between the two gods. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.

Nice ring insert made of composite glass. Its imprint shows the moment of the mythological boar hunt in which Meleager slays the beast.

The dark glass paste symbolizes a famous love affair from ancient mythology. The sky father Zeus falls in love with the beautiful Ganymede, a Trojan king's son.

Perfectly preserved ancient baby feeding vessel. Found in a 3rd century BC tomb in Athens.

Very fine condition. Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachf. Auktion 140 (1984), Lot Nr. 199.

The only 1544 print currently offered on the market. Attractive and rare 16th century print, published in the workshop Froben. Impressive folio in very good condition, thoroughly printed. Beautiful large wood- and metal-cut initials.

The two sides show a woman with lion's head and a magical text. The piece is from the period of Gnosticism in the 2nd and 3rd century.

A find from the Greek settlement of Gela in Sicily. Great example of local pottery production in the 5th century BC. The askos offered here was extensively researched and described by Prof. Dr. Isler from the University of Zurich.

Nice ancient oil vessel, around 400 B.C. From an old German collection, acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery in Cologne.

Delicate piece of ancient art from an old German private collection. Acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques Gallery, London.

About 6th - 5th century BC. Good condition. From a German private collection, acquired 1976 - 1978 in London.

Very finely worked depiction of a woman with long hair. From the German private collection Dr. Dietrich, acquired in the 1950s from an antiquities gallery in Cologne, Germany.

From the German private collection Dr. Dietrich, acquired 1962 from the collection of Prof. Dr Jochen Bleicken, University of Goettingen.

Red clay with white grounding and traces of painting. Very well preserved. Probably made in Sicily 2nd century B.C. Fron an old Munich collection, acquired around 1976.

Finely worked cup with high flat handles. From an old German collection, acquired in the late 1950s.

Nice glass vessel with pear shaped body. Made in the Western part of the Roman empire or in Northern Italy.

Perfectly preserved, with nice large palmette in tondo. From an old German private collection, acquired 1976 - 1978 in London, probably at Davies Antiques Gallery.

Very well preserved with intense red colors. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.

Coined 198 AD as Caesar under Septimius Severus. Found in January 1985 in Stonea Grange area, Cambridgeshire, UK.

Very nicely preserved, beautiful green patina. From the collection of the art historian Steinbock, composed between 1920 and 1982.

The gem stone from the Late Roman Imperial period is engraved in linear style. It shows a standing person in a cloak.

The piece from the Professor Brosch collection shows a standing woman. Wonderful violet colour.

Ring stone made of beautiful orange glass. From the Professor Brosch collection of ancient gems.

An ancient intaglio from Roman times made of dark glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.