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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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Attic black figure cup with animalsImpressive 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.
Black 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.
Large white-ground athenian Lekythos - Painter of Athens 1826With TL analysis. Impressive vessel, perfectly preserved delicate painting. Ancient graffito XE on foot.
Very rare large Samian Ware hunt cupThe barbotine decoration is masterly made and excellently preserved. Absolutely worth the exhibition in a museum. A similar piece is on exhibition in the British Museum in London. Ex Vienna Schönbrunn Gallery, acquired 1986. With TL analysis.
Corinthian aryballos in the form of a ramBeautiful small vessel for perfumed oil from the heyday of Corinthian pottery production, at the beginning of the 6th century BC.
Greek bull askos from SicilyA 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.
Wonderful Apulian kantharos with very rare sceneThe vase shows the fight of Herakles against a centaur, and on the other side a sitting woman with a satyr. Very delicate object, painting of exquisite workmanship for an apulian vase.
Corinthian aryballos in the form of a hareBeautiful small vessel for perfumed oil from the heyday of Corinthian pottery production, made around 600 BC.
Cycladic marble vaseThe 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.
Large black-figure athenian skyphos with parallel in a museumVery impressive, cicely preserved large vase. Painted with women dancing between sphinxes. An almost identical piece is on exhibition at the Musee National Rodin in Paris.