Perfectly preserved. Found 1967 in the sea in Croatia, exported with permit of the local authorities.

Perfectly preserved. Found 1967 in the sea in Croatia, exported with permit of the local authorities.

Nicely preserved. Found 1967 in the sea in Croatia, exported with permit of the local authorities.

Imposing vessel made of dark clay with stamp decoration and decorative strips. A find from the Saxon Empire dating to the Early Middle Ages.

Small ancient glass flask, like they are found along the old trade routes of the Islamic world. Such bottles were used around 1000 years ago to transport precious oils and other liquids.

Bulbous flask from the Golden Age of Islam. Made of beautiful reddish brown glass. Ex-Sotheby's.

Slender glass flask from the Golden Age of Islam. With a nicely shaped handle and a wonderful, subtle patina. Ex-Sotheby's.

Flat 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.

Fragments 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.

Small 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).

Flat 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.

Thin-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.

Thin-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.

Elegant bowl with shiny black surface. Precolumbian pottery of the 10th to 15th century.

Flat 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.

Thin-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.

Nicely decorated with plant ornaments in black and turquoise. Made towards the end of the Islamic Golden Age in the Persian province of Golestan.

Interesting cylindrical vessel with rich decoration. From antiquity or early Middle Ages.

The 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.

Rare and beautifully stamp decorated pottery of the early Baiuvarii around 600 AD. From a find in Riekofen in Bavaria.

Colourfully painted pottery made by the precolumbian Ica culture. Nicely decorated by five rows of ornamentation. Around 1000 AD.

Appealing pottery made by the precolumbian Ica culture and decorated with a linear pattern. Around 1000 AD.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

From a wreck discovered 2001 in the South China Sea, identified as the Chinese merchant vessel "I Sin Ho". Perfectly preserved.

Eindrucksvolles Exemplar in musealer Erhaltung. Islamisch, schönes Dekor, Terracotta, Levante. Höhe: 25cm, Durchmesser: 36cm.

Schale, Keramik, grün glasiert, 15cm Durchmesser, 5cm hoch. Song Dynastie, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr., China. Glasierte Keramik, sehr schöne, dezent grünliche Glasur.

Song-Dynastie, Altes China, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr. Keramik mit brauner Glasur. Für Öl. Sehr gut erhalten.

Krug, 4 Henkel, 1 Ausguss, 14cm Durchmesser, 13cm hoch. Song Dynastie, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr., China. Grün glasierte Keramik in meisterhafter Ausführung.

Song-Dynastie, Altes China, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr. Keramik mit brauner Glasur. Für Öl. Sehr gut erhalten.

Song-Dynastie, Altes China, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr. Keramik mit brauner Glasur. Für Öl. Sehr gut erhalten.

Song-Dynastie, Altes China, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr. Keramik mit brauner Glasur. Für Öl. Sehr gut erhalten.

Krug, 18cm hoch. Song Dynastie, 960 bis 1279 n.Chr., China. Glasierte Keramik aus Terracotta, sehr schöne, typische grünliche Glasur. Dezente Verzierungen.