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.

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.

Massives Glasfläschchen, dickwandig. Östlicher Mittelmeerraum. Aus der Zeit der islamsichen Expansion. Ca. 50mm hoch.

Eckiger Körper mit rundem Hals. Durchschimmernd weißliches Glas. Zierrillen und schönes Dekor. 9. bis 10. Jh. n.Chr., 75mm hoch.

Außen gereinigt, leichte Irideszenz. Innen Reste weißer Fundablagerung. Außen vereinzelte Restflächen mit silber- bis goldfarben glänzender Auflage. Grünliches Glas.Spitze der Tülle abgebrochen. An der Unterseite evt. ein Stück angebrochen, oder es ist der Rest von dem Abriss beim Glasblasen, den man sieht.Ca. 63mm hoch. 45m Durchmesser oben. Ca. 80mm Breite inklusive Tülle.In den 1960er bis 1970er Jahren in der englischen Antiquitätenhandlung „Shephard“ gekauft. Fundort nicht bekannt.

Hellgraue Keramik mit hellbraunem Überzug. 618 n. Chr. bis 907 n. Chr. Vermutlich in die turbulente, späte Tang-Zeit datierend. Ex Bonhams.

Hellgraue Keramik mit hellbraunem Überzug. 618 n. Chr. bis 907 n. Chr. Vermutlich in die turbulente, späte Tang-Zeit datierend. Ex Bonhams.

Keramik mit bichromer Glasur und interessanter bikonischer Form. 16,5cm Durchmesser. 200 v. Chr. bis 200 n. Chr. Prä-Inka und Prä-Kolonialzeit.

Kugelförmiges Fläschchen. Interessanter Typ, abgeschnittener Hals, farbenfrohe Patina.

Zoomorphe Dekoration. 600 n. Chr. bis 900 n. Chr., späte Klassik der Maya-Zivilisation. Mittelamerika, Honduras. Museumswürdige Erhaltung, beeindruckende 33cm Durchmesser.