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Italic pottery in the subgeometric style. Made around 500 BC in Apulia. An attractive vessel due to the beautiful painting and the bird shape.

The skillful work shows a wading bird, possibly a heron. Its legs bent beneath the body. The neck drawn back towards the body.

Product of Northern Europe dating to the second century AD. Brooch worked as a flat relief, once with multi-coloured inlays.

From an old German collection, acquired 1978 at Davies Antiques, London. Corinthian, 6th century B. C.

Nice fibula in the shape of a stylized water bird. A find from Britain and probably also a local Roman provincial production.

Elegant long bronze ladle, from the Greek or Etruscan culture. 5th to 4th century BC.

Stylized bird shaped brooch made of bronze. Northern European brooch type from the Roman Pricipate.

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

The ancient ring insert is made of beautiful opaque glass paste with white parts imitating an inclusion in stone.

A local British production from the 2nd century. It is taking up a continental brooch type. From the famous Hattatt collection and published in two standard works on ancient brooches.

From a German private collection, acquired 1982 at Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany. The bird possibly depicts a dove, a popular symbol among the early Christians, symbolizing the Holy Spirit.

Nicely preserved. From an old German private collection, acquired in the first half of the 1970s from Oberamtsrat i.R. Hans Ullrich, Stuttgart, Germany.

End of 2nd to 1st millennium BC, Iron Age. Perfectly preserved figurine with beautiful patina.

Rassel in Form eines Hauses. Aus dem Übergang der Späten Bronzezeit zur Frühen Eisenzeit Nordmittel-Europas. 1300 bis 500 v. Chr.

Found near the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.

Excellently preserved piece with interesting scene. From an old German private collection, acquired in Cologne 1975.

The Roman glass paste shows an interesting scene with a water basin, birds and column.

Fragments of Roman pottery. Finds from the Roman city of Novaesium, today's Neuss in Germany, an early Roman foundation and with this one of the oldest cities in Germany.

8th century BC, richly decorated. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.

A nice bronze bird from the Late Period of Ancient Egypt. The ibis was the sacred bird of Thoth, god of wisdom and the sciences.

Wooden body with stucco and bronze attachments, 26th to 31st dynasty. The ibis was the sacred bird of Thoth, god of wisdom and the sciences.

High quality palette with two stylized bird heads. Characteristic for the Naqada II period. Circa 3500 to 3200 BC.

Gold jewellery with plastically modeled head of a bird of prey or dolphin. The elaborate gold sheet head is typical for hellenistic earrings.

Piriform body with engraved bird on the lid. A piece from the Roman Imperial period, found near Dover. Published in a standard work by Richard Hattatt.

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.

Stunning Egyptian funerary figurine from the time of the 22nd dynasty. Formerly in the Rolls-Royce family collection.

Impressive piece in very good condition. The frieze shows birds and rams. From an old German private collection, acquired in a London gallery between 1976 and 1978.

Magnificent example of the pre-Columbian Tairona culture, which produced the most impressive gold works of ancient America. In mythology, the eagle brought the seeds for one of the main crops, cassava. Made between 900 and 1550 AD.

Interesting bronze seal showing a bird and glyphs. From a collection of Iranian ancient artefacts.

Female figurine from Bronze Age Syria, 3rd to beginning of 2nd millenium BC. With characteristic bird shaped head.

Three-dimensional bird shaped brooch with crescentic inlays of orange and blue enamel. Northern European type from the Roman Pricipate.

The body is creatively shaped as a bird man. A wonderful testimony to the last bloom of the Mochica culture before its collapse.

Elegant long bronze ladle, from the Greek or Etruscan culture. 5th to 4th century BC.

Very nice piece of art from Late Antiquity. Decorated by a relief and a partial gilt. Ex Sotheby's.

Seal with mythological creatures in near perfect condition. From the late 3rd Millennium BC.

Stunning historical document with three columns of cuneiform inscription naming the original owner and the Babylonian storm god Adad.