Photo gallery
Image database with photographs of ancient art and antiquities
Our image database provides photographs of ancient art and antiquities for press releases as well as for private use. All artefacts sold in our gallery are documented through professional photographs. The resulting image library contains numerous ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities as well as ancient coins. The time span from Stone Age, over Bronze Age and Classical Antiquity until Late Antiquity is covered.The photo gallery aims at providing a vast visual archive equipped with filters and search tools. You are most welcome to search the constantly growing number of artefacts in the image library. We are also happy to authorize hyperlinks from your webpage / forum to the objects depicted in our gallery. For this purpose, please send us a short notification prior to placing a hyperlink. For almost every object high definition photographs are available and can be provided e.g. to document your collection or for scientific papers or popular science articles. If you are interested in using pictures for publications, print media or other purposes, please contact us and we will be happy to assist you.
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Gourd shaped bowl of the Chimú culture
Elegant bowl with shiny black surface. Precolumbian pottery of the 10th to 15th century.
Black figure Athenian Lekythos of Haimon painterChariot with horses and human figures. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Etrusco-Corinthian bail amphora from TarquiniaVery well preserved with intense red colors. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Commodus Denarius - Roma on shieldRome mint, 180 - 181 A.D. The reverse shows Roma seated left, holding Victory and spear.
Bowl of the Chancay cultureFlat pottery bowl with abstract painting. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Base plate of a Roman mirrorThe bronze disc is the base plate of a Roman mirror. A handle and reflective metal coating were once part of the mirror. Typical for upper class Roman households during Imperial times.
Bowl of the Chancay cultureThin-walled pottery bowl with abstract painting. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Price: on requestMaya pottery bowlFlat bowl painted with mythical creatures. From the Classic period of the Maya civilization. Stunning object with lively colours.
Price: on requestCeltic coin - Iceni tribeEast Anglia mint, reported to have been found in Stonea Grange, Cambridgeshire.
Etruscan Bucchero KantharosVery well preserved, worth the exhibition in a museum. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Etruscan bronze ladle - ex Sotheby'sVery good condition, undamaged, with thick patina. Late Etruscan, 4th - 3rd century BC. From an old English collection.
Coptic bronze figurine of an angelFrom the famous Prof. Maurice Bouvier collection, acquired in Egypt between 1929 and 1959.
Large perfectly preserved Magna Graecia LekythosVery rare in such condition. From the German generation collection Eichelmann-Hartmann. Prof. Hartmann (1862-1946), the founder of the collection, acquired the lamp during his study travels to Italy.
8 Reales, also known as cob coin, piece of eight or pirate moneyPotosi, Bolivia. Very fine, nice quality and preservation for a cob coin.
Roman imperial oil lamp with bustFrom the German generation collection Eichelmann-Hartmann. Prof. Hartmann (1862-1946), the founder of the collection, acquired the lamp during his study travels to Italy.
Price: on requestFemale stone portrait headHellenistic 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.
Greek black glaze pottery mug4th century BC; Greek colony in Southern Italy. Body in excellent condition, decorated with grooves, glossy metallic black slip.
Persian bowl from GolestanNicely decorated with plant ornaments in black and turquoise. Made towards the end of the Islamic Golden Age in the Persian province of Golestan.
Price: on requestCypriot black-on-red LekythosVery well preserved incl. original painting. From the collection of the German actress Lotti Huber, found during excavations in Cyprus in the 1950s.
Commodus Denarius - SecuritasRome mint, 189 A.D. The reverse shows Securitas, personifying security, holding a globe.
Price: on requestRed figure apulian lekanisLekanis without handles and with knobbed lid. Fully preserved, delicate piece of art.
Price: on requestMoche erotic potteryExceptional depiction of figures on a raft having intercourse. From the golden age of the Moche civilization.
Iron Age pottery vessel in the shape of a tigerFantastic animal shaped vessel with the mouth serving as a spout. From Iron Age Azerbaijan. The piece comes with a TL analysis from 1981.
Roman gold ring with eagleThe beautiful ring from Roman Imperial times is decorated by a black stone intaglio. The gem shows a standing eagle.
Marc Antony legionary Denarius - LEG VIIIIOn obverse galley with scepter tied with fillet on prow, on reverse aquila between two standards. Rarer than the LEG IX variety
Price: on requestRoman bronze Amor figurine - ex BonhamsVery well preserved, nice polychrome patina. Mounted on a very nice modern marble base.
Price: on requestAntoninus Pius Denarius - Modius with corn ears and poppyRome mint, 140 - 143 A.D. Very fine.
Price: on requestBlack-figure Athenian amphora with TL analysisShowing Athena killing a Giant. Excellent condition, vivid original colors. From an old German collection, acquired in the 1960s.
Four Greek or Scythian arrow headsGroup of four bronze socketed arrowheads with triangular cross-section. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. From an old British collection, acquired before 1980.
Price: on requestHellenistic oil lamp from Israel from Adler collectionFrom the famous Judge Dr. Steve Adler collection. Exported from Israel with IAA permit Nr. 542792.
Price: on requestBlack figure Athenian cup with panthersVery nice decoration with dark red painting. Delicate piece of ancient art from an old German private collection. Acquired 1976- 78 at a London art gallery.
Perfectly preserved Roman beaker found 1907 in CologneFrom the collection of the viniculture historian Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan. Worth the exhibition in a museum.
Price: on requestRichly decorated Gnathia ware oinochoe from Prof. Fremersdorf collectionExtraordinary condition, painting excellently preserved, vivid colors. From the collection of the archeologist Prof. Fremersdorf, director of the Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne between 1923 and 1959.
Scarce Septimius Severus legionary denariusCelebrating the Legio XIII Gemina, on reverse aquila between two standards. Coined 193 AD, Rome mint.
Price: on requestVillanova KyathosImpasto pottery. Ornate handle in the shape of a stylized slug. Ex South German private collection of an artist and art collector.
Price: on requestLarge polychrome figure of a woman from Canosa with TL analysisExceptionally well preserved polychrome painting and surface details. An almost identical figurine is on exhibition in the British Museum. From German private collection, acquired in the 1980s.