Middle Ages - Sold antiquities
Archive of sold antiquities
All artefacts sold in our gallery are fully documented in our online archive and database. Being a specialist ancient art dealer, preserving also the more recent history of each and every piece sold in our shop is at our heart. That is particularly useful for artefacts that changed owners in the meantime. Information that may have been lost in the process can be easily restored from our archives. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information about ancient items that have been sold in our gallery. We can help you with reconstructing the history of ownership for those items. All information about our customers will be kept confidential, of course.-
Glass bead with polychrome decoration
Large bead made of opaque dark blue glass decorated with yellow lines and light blue eyes.
Price: on requestMedieval gilt finger ringThe ring from the late Middle Ages was found in England. The silver body and the gold plating are in excellent condition. Appraised at the British Museum, published in the Portable Antiquities Scheme database.
Price: on requestSaxon urnImposing vessel made of dark clay with stamp decoration and decorative strips. A find from the Saxon Empire dating to the Early Middle Ages.
Price: on requestDecorated ancient glass braceletThe bangle is made of turquoise glass and beautifully decorated in white and blue. A product from the eastern Mediterranean coast.
Price: on requestStirrup vessel in the shape of cacao fruitsPlastically shaped vessel from the Peruvian Chimú culture. It embodies an important agricultural product of the pre-Columbian civilization of Chimor. With TL report from 1979.
Price: on requestCeremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Price: on requestCeremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The Tumi certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Price: on requestLarge Visigoth bow broochImpressive fibula of the Visigoths from the Migration Period. With five originally preserved glass inserts.
Price: on requestBowl of the Chancay cultureFlat pottery bowl with abstract painting on the inside. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Price: on requestRoman and medieval potsherds from the RhinelandFragments of Roman and medieval 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.
Price: on requestEarly Byzantine censerSmall bronze pot with a bulbous body an high handle. It was probably used as an incense burner. From the collection of the historian Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959).
Price: on requestViking stirrup mountOpenwork bronze plate from the 11th century. It was once attached to a horse harness strap. The beautiful decorations are typical of the art of the Vikings.
Price: on requestBowl 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.
Price: on requestSmall ceremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Price: on requestBowl of the Chancay cultureThin-walled pottery bowl with abstract painting and plastic animal head handles. The pre-Columbian art of the Chancay seems simple at first, but radiates an elegance that still seems modern today.
Price: on requestRare Seneca first edition - Lyon 1604Rare first edition by Andreas Schott and the only 1604 edition currently available on the market known to us. Dry-embossed pigskin leather over wooden plates. Very good condition, appropriate for the age of the volume.
Price: on requestCeremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Price: on requestBowl 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 requestLarge ceremonial knife of the Sican cultureThe so-called Tumi was a weapon to cut the throats of humans and animals in ritual sacrifices. The knife certainly fulfilled an additional representative function in the afterlife. From the period of the Sican's cultural florescence during the 10th to 12th centuries AD.
Price: on requestGourd shaped bowl of the Chimú cultureElegant bowl with shiny black surface. Precolumbian pottery of the 10th to 15th century.
Price: on requestBowl 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.
Price: on requestBowl 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 requestPersian 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 requestRare Tacitus print by Hieronymus Froben, Basel 1544The only 1544 print currently offered on the market. Attractive and rare 16th century print, published in the workshop Froben. Impressive folio in very good condition, thoroughly printed. Beautiful large wood- and metal-cut initials.
Price: on requestSix ancient artefacts and one modern castInteresting group of objects from the Professor Brosch collection of ancient gems. It has two intaglios, one cameo, two glass decorations, a lead bulla and a modern cast of a quality ancient gem.
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 requestM. Cicero - rare Venice 1552 editionSix works of the famous orator. Printed by the humanist Paulus Manutius in Venice. Excellent condition: Contemporary vellum, white pages, firm and stable binding.
Price: on requestTall bone pyxisInteresting cylindrical vessel with rich decoration. From antiquity or early Middle Ages.
Price: on requestJaguar vessel of the Guanacaste-Nicoya peoplesThe imposing vessel shows not just a jaguar but a transformed shaman in his animal form. It was made in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica between 800 and 1200 AD and used for funeral purposes in the Guanacaste region.
Price: on requestJapanese Katana forged around 1430Excellently preserved samurai sword made in the Muromachi period. From the collection of a Munich lawyer, acquired in the 1970s.
Price: on requestBavarian drinking vessel from the Early Middle AgesRare and beautifully stamp decorated pottery of the early Baiuvarii around 600 AD. From a find in Riekofen in Bavaria.
Price: on requestTitus Livius - Historiarum Libri - 1633 editionHistory of Rome from it's foundation and until the death of Drusus in 9 B.C. Contemporary leather binding
Price: on requestM. Cicero - rare Paris 1572 edition incl. Catiline OrationsFirst edition, volume II (of three) of Cicero's Orations, among which are the famous In Catilina and Pro L. Murena. Printed in Paris by Jacob Dupuys, 1572. Text in Latin with commentary by the famous scholar Denys Lambin. Very nice contemporary leather binding with golden front and back cover vignettes.
Price: on requestBowl of the Ica cultureColourfully painted pottery made by the precolumbian Ica culture. Nicely decorated by five rows of ornamentation. Around 1000 AD.
Price: on requestBowl of the Ica cultureAppealing pottery made by the precolumbian Ica culture and decorated with a linear pattern. Around 1000 AD.
Price: on request