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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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Canosan oinochoe found in Sezze area
Impressive delicate hellenistic wine vessel from an old German collection, acquired in the late 1950s.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved EpichysisGreat condition, vivid colors. Decorated with lion heads, pomegranate and vine branches.
Price: on requestGnathia ware skyphosBeautifully decorated piece with perfectly preserved handles, which is rare for such delicate pieces of ancient pottery.
Price: on requestNicely preserved Apulian skyphosGreat condition, worth the exhibition at a museum. Acquired 1976 at Herrmann Zirkel, Cologne, Germany. Said to have been found in Southern Italy, Naples area.
Price: on requestGnathia-ware Apulian oinochoeNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Decorated with vine branch.
Price: on requestRichly decorated Gnathia-ware oinochoeGreat condition, vivid colors. Decorated with female head at the handle, vine branches and other friezes at body.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl with rich floral decorationPerfectly preserved and finely worked piece from a German collection in which it was acquired in the early 1970s.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl with floral decorationPerfectly preserved and finely worked piece from a German collection in which it was acquired in 1974 at Antikenhandlung Karl Heinz Zühlsdorf, Cologne, Germany. Said to have been found in Turkey.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved richly decorated Megarian bowlFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestMegarian bowl decorated with caduceusFrom the collection of Prof. Ritschel, Salzburg, Austria, president of the local museum association, author of over 50 history books, decorated many times for his achievements.
Price: on requestLarge oinochoe decorated with female bust and lion headGreat condition, vivid colors. Decorated with female bust at neck and a lion's head at the handle. From the collection of a Manhattan professor. Coming with an Art Loss certificate.
Price: on requestLarge Gnathia ware pelike with dovesGreat condition, vivid colors. From an old German private collection, acquired in Cologne 1989.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved Greek guttos with sitting womanFrom an old German collection, acquired at Puhze Gallery, Freiburg, before 1979.
Price: on requestCorinthian alabastron with large birdsExcellently preserved piece with interesting scene. From an old German private collection, acquired in Cologne 1975.
Price: on requestPerfectly preserved hellenistic Chytra from Magna GraeciaFrom a German collection, acquired 1970 from Louis Meier, UK (presumably a gallery located in London)
Price: on requestBeautiful Apulian kantharosFrom an old German collection, acquired 1976 at Kunsthandlung Aloys Faust, Cologne.
Price: on requestAthenian black-figure LekythosSo-called "warrior's fare well" group. An almost identical piece which surely originates from the same workshop is exhibited in Tuebingen, another very similar piece is at the Antikenmuseum Basel. Coming with an Art Loss certificate.
Price: on requestVery large Athenian SkyphosProbably Athenian, about 2nd half 5th - 4th century B.C. Very well preserved, especially for a pottery vessel of this size. Acquired 1973 at Axel G. Weber, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on requestSmall hellenistic pot with handlesGlobular pot with two handles, decoration painted in red-brown and black. Acquired 1973 at Axel G. Weber, Cologne, Germany. Said to have been found at the shores of Asia Minor.
Price: on requestGreek skyphos: Italic imitation of Proto-Corinthian or Laconian potteryAbout late 7th - 6th century B.C. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors. Very nicely preserved, interesting unusual piece.
Price: on requestEnsemble of Hellenistic gold jewelleryGroup of a necklace with amphora shaped pendants, a lunula amulet and a pair of earrings with discoid rosettes and amphoras. Belonging to a burial around 300 BC. With well documented 19th century provenance.
Price: on requestFour Greek or Scythian arrow headsGroup of four bronze socketed arrowheads, mainly triangular cross-section. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. From an old German collection, acquired in the early 1980s.
Price: on requestVery high herm with bust of DionysosAn 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.
Very large figure of Aphrodite or Venus AnadyomeneVery impressive, 42 cm high figure. The goddess is rising from the sea, holding her tresses and accompanied by an Eros standing on a vase and a dolphin. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Price: on requestLarge terra cotta figure of Aphrodite or Venus AnadyomeneVery impressive, 27 cm high figure. The goddess is rising from the sea accompanied by a dolphin, holding her tresses and leaning on a high herm. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Price: on requestHead of Aphrodite with rich diademSo-called "oriental Aphrodite". Face and head dress are worked with a very high level of detail and excellently preserved. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Price: on requestHellenistic female headThe face is worked with a very high level of detail and is excellently preserved. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Price: on requestFour Greek or Scythian arrow headsGroup of four bronze socketed arrowheads, mainly triangular cross-section. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. From an old German collection, acquired in the early 1980s.
Price: on requestGreek protome from Archaic periodProbably used for votive purposes and thus showing a goddess, or as an apotropaic (protecting) object in funerary context. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors.
Price: on requestGreek plate with palmettesPerfectly preserved object, Magna Graecia, 3rd - 2nd century B.C. From the Austrian collection of Prof. Ritschel, carrier of the Large Cross of Honor of the Austrian Republic and many other prizes and honors. Very nicely preserved, interesting unusual piece.
Price: on requestGnathia-ware Apulian oinochoeNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Decorated with vine branch. acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on requestFour Greek or Scythian arrow headsGroup of four bronze socketed arrowheads, three with triangular cross-section and one leaf-shaped. Excellent condition, beautiful patina. From an old German collection, acquired in the early 1980s.
Price: on requestGnathia-ware Apulian oinochoe with vine branchNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Decorated with vine branch. Acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on requestGreek or etruscan oinochoe from SpinaNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. Reported to have been found in Spina area, Emilia Romagna, Italy. Acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on requestAthenian oinochoeNicely preserved, delicate piece of ancient art. 4th century B.C. Acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on requestDaunian oinochoeNicely preserved painted vase, made in Southern Italy in the 5th - 4th century B.C. Acquired 1965 at Hermann Zirkel Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Price: on request