Gold - Featured Objects - 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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Roman gold ring with intaglio
A lovely piece of Roman jewellery in good condition. The chalcedony intaglio shows a portrait head. Dating to the 3rd century AD.
Price: on requestGold earrings with Nike pendantsGreek hellenistic earring pair made of gold and emerald. Beautiful jewellery with granulated rosettes, emerald beads and plastic Nike statuettes. Including material analysis report.
Price: on requestPair of Roman gold earringsNice golden earrings with blue glass inserts from late Roman Imperial times. It is a belonging pair of earrings which is in itself a rarity.
Price: on requestRoman gold pendant with glass pasteThe piece of jewellery could be a big earring or the central piece of a necklace. Dating to Late Roman Imperial times.
Price: on requestExtremely rare Augustus aureusNot in RIC, BMC or Cohen. This coin is published in Calico, Bahrfeldt, Banti/Simonetti. Published as part of the Manuel Vidal Quadras y Ramón collection (Nr. 2942) in 1892. Sold in Etienne Bourgey December 1913 auction in Paris.
Price: on requestPair of Achaemenid gold braceletsFantastic example of the gold jewellery of the first Persian Empire. Late 6th to 5th cent. BC.
Price: on requestRoman ring with Mercury intaglioNice gold ring with hollow band. The inserted carnelian intaglio shows Mercury, the Roman god of trade.
Price: on requestRoman finger ring with imitated agateMassive gold plated finger ring dating to the Late Roman Imperial period. The ring impresses with a particularly nice multi-layer glass gem in red, white and black.
Price: on requestRoman gold earring with pearlsFine specimen from the eastern provinces during late Roman Imperial times. From the collection of the orientalist N. Giron.
Price: on requestRoman gold earringFine specimen from the eastern provinces during late Roman Imperial times. From the collection of the orientalist N. Giron.
Price: on requestScarab mounted in a gold ringThe fantastic piece of jewellery is from the Third Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt, probably dating to the Nubian Kushite rule of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.
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 requestAncient gold ring with maskThe fingerring is of peculiar workmanship and displays a central grotesque mask. A piece of jewellery from the Roman era.
Price: on requestGolden circlet in the shape of a snakeBeautiful piece of gold jewellery from Egypt in Roman Imperial times. Published in the exhibition catalogue of the Basel Museum of Ancient Art.
Price: on requestGolden fingerring in the shape of a snakeBeautiful gold ring from Egypt in Roman Imperial times. Published in the exhibition catalogue of the Basel Museum of Ancient Art.
Price: on requestGolden fingerring in the shape of a snakeBeautiful gold ring from Egypt in Roman Imperial times. Published in the exhibition catalogue of the Basel Museum of Ancient Art.
Price: on requestRoman gold ring with intaglioNice fingerring with a glass paste showing a standing figure. Characteristic type for the 1st century CE, early Roman Imperial period.
Price: on requestEtruscan "a baule" type earringsSkilfully made pair of gold earrings with filigree. The ancient jewellery is from the Golden Age of the Etruscans around the 6th century BC.
Price: on requestPair of early Byzantine gold earringsBeautiful jewellery with beads made of emerald and garnet. Made in the eastern part of the Mediterranean during the 6th to early 7th century.
Price: on requestEtruscan "a baule" type earringsSkilfully made pair of gold earrings with filigree. The ancient jewellery is from the Golden Age of the Etruscans around the 6th century BC.
Price: on requestVery fine Nero AureusThis coin type celebrates the failing of the "Pisonian Conspiracy" and emphasizes the divine protection for emperor Nero. Impressive portrait, condition slightly better than very fine.
Price: on requestPair of Roman gold earringsThe gold bodies are decorated with portrait busts made of black and white layered onyx. The jewellery was made in the 2nd century AD in the Danube provinces of the Roman Empire.
Price: on requestRoman gold fingerringNice piece of jewellery from the later Roman Imperial period. With beaded wires and intaglio. Found in England.
Roman gold ring with eagleThe beautiful ring from Roman Imperial times is decorated by a black stone intaglio. The gem shows a standing eagle.
Price: on requestExtremely fine Koson stater - M. Iunius Brutus accompanied by two lictorsAttempts to explain this unusual coin date back over 500 years, since king Koson left no traced besides his name on this coin type. Uncirculated, well centered.
Price: on requestPair of Roman earrings from SyriaExtremely skillfully crafted jewellery with wonderful granulation. The design points to Syria during the Late Roman Imperial period.
Roman earrings with shieldMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with shield and granulation. From the Roman Imperial period.
Price: on requestGold earrings in the shape of a reed boatMatching pair of Late Bronze Age jewellery made of massive gold in the Eastern Mediterranean. The shape is reminiscent of boats made of budles of reed.
Price: on requestGriechisches GoldohrringpaarWunderschöne antike Ohrringe aus Gold. Griechische Zeit.
Price: on requestGriechisch-römische GoldohrringeDie griechisch-römischen Ohrringe besitzen kunstvolle Granularien. Das Paar ist mehrfach publiziert.
Price: on requestGraeco-Roman earrings with gemstoneMatching pair of jewellery made of gold with gemstones of red garnet. From an ancient workshop in Egypt or the Levant.
Price: on requestRoman gold earring with emeraldBeautiful jewellery from the 2nd century made of gold with a green stone bead.
Price: on requestImpressive Titus aureusAlmost extremely fine, perfectly centered. Slabbed by NGC. Rome mint, 75 A.D.
Price: on requestHellenistic gold diademMagnificent head-dress in the shape of a pediment from the time of Alexander the Great. Embossed with a floral decoration, supplemented by birds and grasshoppers. This piece has been published in a 1965 standard work on hellenistic gold jewellery.
Titus aureus - she-wolf suckling Romulus and RemusThe reverse, showing Roma on shield with she-wolf suckling the twins and two woodpeckers, is copying a 200 years older Republican denarius.
Price: on request