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12:00 PM PT - Sep 14th, 2003

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Michael Malter

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Precolumbian, Egyptian & Persian Antiquities

468 items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
401
Lot 401
A lot of 16 mostly imitation stone cylin

der seals. All with nice detail and suitable for jewelry. The kind...

800
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1,000
402
Lot 402
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A beautiful bowl with a central depiction of Christ, nimbate...

180
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200
403
Lot 403
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A choice bowl with a large central cross at center, smaller...

180
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200
404
Lot 404
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A pleasing bowl with a large central cross, birds flanking a tree...

180
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200
405
Lot 405
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A nice blue glazed bowl with a depiction of a saint at center...

160
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170
406
Lot 406
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A blue glaze bowl with central cross and various others devices...

180
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200
407
Lot 407
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

An attractive pitcher with trefoil spout and single handle. The...

300
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320
408
Lot 408
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A nice bowl with central medallion adorned with red 'X' patterns...

200
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210
409
Lot 409
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

An attractive bowl with a central medallion filled with...

140
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150
410
Lot 410
Greece, Byzantine-Serras, 19th Century.

A choice two-handled flask with deep green glaze. Central...

140
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150
411
Lot 411
Byzantine, 12th - 14th Century. An ornat

e bronze suspension device for oil lamps composed of two circular...

1,200
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1,500
412
Lot 412
Harappan Culture, c.2500 BC. A large, ve

ry thin-walled, cylindrical vessel with a sharply angled shoulder...

300
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400
413
Lot 413
Harappan Culture, c.2500 BC. A well form

ed jar with straight side and angle top into a low, flared mouth...

250
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350
414
Lot 414
Harappan Culture, c.2500 BC. A charming

goblet with pleasing linear decoration in a deep brown pigment...

250
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350
415
Lot 415
Harappan Culture, c.2500 BC. A thin-wall

ed, wide mouth cup with a small, circular foot. Extremely well...

250
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350
416
Lot 416
Harappan Culture, c.2500 - 2200 BC. A sh

allow bowl with handsome decoration in the form of a central plant...

300
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400
417
Lot 417
Bactria, c. 3100 BC. A small copper mace

head cast in round shape with a central shaft hole. H: 3.5 cm...

350
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450
418
Lot 418
Bactria, c. 2000 BC. A round large carve

d mace head of hematite with drilled longitudinal hole (16 mm...

200
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300
419
Lot 419
Bactria, c. 2000 BC. A smaller hemispher

ical carved hematite mace-head also with large central shaft hole...

200
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250
420
Lot 420
Bactria, c. 3100 BC. A similar small mac

e head carved from a magnetic chunk of magnetite. H: 4 cm. Choice...

400
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450
421
Lot 421
Bactria, c. 2000 BC. An very dense carve

d hematite mace-head. The central hole is chip free with only a...

300
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375
422
Lot 422
Bactria, c. 2000 BC. A bronze cosmetic c

ontainer with three legs each in the form of a deer. There is an...

1,000
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1,250
423
Lot 423
Bactria, c. 2000 BC. A bronze cosmetic c

ontainer with three legs each in the form of a deer. There is an...

800
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1,000
424
Lot 424
Bactria, c. 1500 BC. A rare matched pair

of grinding stones carved from green porphyry. A raise round...

400
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500
425
Lot 425
Bactria, c. 100 BC. A small bronze lion

that appears to be reading to pounce on its prey. Lion stands on...

1,000
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1,200
426
Lot 426
Bactria, c. 100 BC. A small bronze goat.

Mottled and crusty patina, goat has incised linear markings on...

1,000
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1,200
427
Lot 427
Bactria, c. 100 BC. A nice and attractiv

e bronze standing man. He appears to be holding something against...

1,500
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1,750
428
Lot 428
Gandhara, c. 100 AD. An ivory panel depi

cting a mother and boy standing facing. she is full breasted and...

1,000
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1,200
429
Lot 429
Gandhara, c. 100 AD. An ivory panel depi

cting a river goddess standing facing, full breasted, and wearing...

800
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1,000
430
Lot 430
Gandhara, c. 100 AD. An ivory cross sect

ion with four beaded registers alternating depictions of a...

700
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800
431
Lot 431
Afghan, 12th century ceramic bowl with l

ovely green and crème glazed inside. Linear design incised as well...

1,000
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1,200
432
Lot 432
Pakistan, c. 1700 AD. A steel fire-light

er with incised deer nicely etched on one side with floral designs...

75
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100
433
Lot 433
A lot of 8 modern glazed ceramic plates

and bowls from mostly Greece and Turkey. All beautifully colored...

100
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200
434
Lot 434
Exceptional Turkoman tumar amulet pendan

t. Teke tribe late 19th century to early 20th. Silver with gold...

1,000
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1,200
435
Lot 435
A lot of 3 beaded necklaces. One with la

rge amber beads interspersed with silver granulated beads. The...

650
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850
436
Lot 436
Turkoman , Uncommon gonzuk pendant from

the Teke tribe. Gorgeous silver and gilded design, 19th century...

400
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500
437
Lot 437
Turkoman , Uncommon gonzuk pendant from

the Teke tribe. Gorgeous silver and gilded design, 19th century...

400
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500
438
Lot 438
Ban Chiang, early Middle Period, c.1200

BC. A large red-buff corded storage vessel with small flared foot...

150
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250
439
Lot 439
Ban Chiang, Middle Period, c.1000 BC. A

black-buff corded cooking vessel with wedge body and a wide...

300
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400
440
Lot 440
Ban Chiang, Middle Period, c.1000 BC. A

corded round-bodied footed jar with red-burnished rim and mouth...

200
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300
441
Lot 441
Ban Chiang, Late Middle Period, c.1000 -

800 BC. A burnished red-ware footed bowl. In choice condition and...

200
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300
442
Lot 442
Ban Chiang, Late Middle Period, c.1000 -

800 BC. A lot of 2 bronze spearheads. Both in great condition...

200
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300
443
Lot 443
Ban Chiang, Late Middle Period, c.1000 -

800 BC. An interesting group of 10 thick bronze bangle-type...

800
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1,000
444
Lot 444
Eastern steppes, Northern China. Ordos,

Circa mid 1st millennium BC. A nice bronze incense burner. Burner...

1,200
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1,500
445
Lot 445
China, c.14th - 15th Century. A billon m

irror in the shaped of a flower. A raised dome at center is...

600
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800
446
Lot 446
China, a wonderful and ornately embroide

red silk ceremonial priest's robe, likely Buddhist, probably circa...

2,200
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2,500
447
Lot 447
Tibet, early 20th Century. A pair of bra

ss teapots! Both with ornate applied design. Tall vessel with...

100
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200
448
Lot 448
Bali, 20th Century. A Barong dance mask,

one of the demon cohorts of Rangda, the witch widow. Grotesque...

100
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200
449
Lot 449
Large and ornate bronze falcon (?) on st

and. Probably c. 17th century, falcon stands facing with wings...

400
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500
450
Lot 450
Poland or Eastern Europe, 19th century,

a silver "Yad" or Torah pointer". Unmarked with nicely incised...

300
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400
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