Northern Europe, AD 1427–1618  Size: 2 m, 7 cm long Download PDF Before the mid-16th century, everyone knew that horns such […]

Probably Morocco, 350 million years ago Size of stone panel: 52 × 32 cm,  Ormolu frame Download PDF It is […]

Northern Europe, AD 1526–1698  Size: 42 cm long Download PDF It is probable that at one time this section of a […]

Indus Valley, second half 3rd millennium BC Size: 4.5 cm long Download PDF The model for this unicorn is a type […]

Greece, early 5th century BC Size: 7 cm long Download PDF The Earl of Gloucester in King Lear said about his […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 3 × 3 cm; 4.5 × 4.7 cm; 3.6 × 3.8 cm Steatite and […]

Probably Song dynasty, 11th–12th century AD Size: 7 × 6.5 cm Download PDF While European unicorns had horses’ bodies and Middle […]

(1485–1570) The Unicorn Purifies the Water with his Horn Plate: 22.6 × 40.2 cm Sheet: 23.5 × 40.9 cm Download […]

Sleeping Groom and Sorceress Woodcut, 1544, Size: 34 × 20.1 cm With thread margins as trimmed on the black border […]

Cornwall, 1920s Size: 70 cm high Download PDF This Elephant came from the overgrown garden of an old Cornish estate, […]

Africa, 19th century Size: 40 cm across Old collection label: ‘Hippo’s Teeth’ Download PDF This tusk has nothing to do […]

Africa, 16th–17th century Size: 96.5 cm long Download PDF This large elephant femur is apparently the one shown in Charles […]

Mesopotamia, late Uruk/Jemdet Nasr period, 3,400–3000 BC Size: 15 cm high, 20 cm long Veined limestone Download PDF The rear of […]

Hongshan culture, North-East China, 3,500–3000 BC Size: 19.5 cm high Limestone Download PDF Zhulong means ‘pig-dragon’. It is a mysterious emblem […]

Tang Dynasty, China, AD 618–907 Size: 22 × 22 cm Bronze Download PDF In 139 BC the Han Emperor of China […]

Attributed to Aert Schouman (1710–1792) Oil on canvas Size: 38 × 38 cm Download PDF This arresting image of a […]

Unicorn  2016 Size: 35 cm high; 58 cm long, White onyx Download PDF For the exhibition in 2015, Michael sculpted […]

Indus Valley, c. 5000 BC Size: 15.7 cm, and 12 cm Download PDF The larger of the two is clearer about […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, c. 3000 BC Size: 4.2 cm high, 5.9 cm diameter Download PDF Along the upper rim of this […]

Indus Valley, first half 3rd millennium BC  Size: 11.5 cm, and 11 cm long Download PDF Such highly polished beads […]

Mehrgarh, circa 3000 –2500 BC  Size: 13 cm; 13.2 cm; 14.2 cm; 13.5 cm; 12.5 cm Terracotta, with pigments Download […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, c. 3000 BC  Size: 9 cm; 14 cm; 9.5 cm Download PDF It’s the hairstyles that are […]

Mehrgarh, c. 3000–2500 BC  Size: 10.5 cm high Download PDF The great majority of the figurines from Mehrgarh are female, […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC  Size: 15 cm high Bronze, lost-wax casting Download PDF She has had her hair extravagantly […]

Mehrgarh area, 5th–4th millennium BC Size: 8 cm high Download PDF

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 4th millennium BC or earlier Size: 6 cm high Download PDF

Indus Valley or Balouchistan, late 4th millennium BC Size: 9 cm high Download PDF

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 8.4 cm high Download PDF This figure is related to Indus Valley terracottas, with some […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 4 cm high Download PDF Although small in size, this remarkable head has a powerful […]

Mehrgarh area, circa 3500 BC Size: 6 cm long Download PDF The eyes are inlaid with shell. The base bears a […]

Download PDF It is assumed that the seals were used for trade, particularly long-distance trade, that the different animals are […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2.5 cm high Download PDF

Indus Valley, 5th millennium BC  Size: 3.5 × 3.8 cm Weight: 125 g Download PDF Cubical weights conform to the […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 5.3 cm high, 6.7 cm long Download PDF The nature of the mouflon, so perfectly […]

Mundigak, Balouchistan, circa 4000 BC Size: 14.5 cm long Download PDF The most intriguing aspect of this rare flask is that […]

Indus Valley, circa 4000 BC Size: 5.3 cm diameter Download PDF Finely carved around the outside are three long-legged water birds, […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2.5 cm long Download PDF

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 3 cm long Download PDF

Indus Valley, circa 3000 BC Size: 11 cm long Download PDF The horns, ears and clover leaf inlays are of lapis […]

Mehrgarh, 3rd millennium BC Size: 7.5 × 8.5 cm Download PDF The gold sheet is wrapped around a core of bitumen.

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 7 cm diameter Download PDF The three bracelets are cut from the same conch shell; […]

Mesopotamia, 3rd millennium BC Size: 6.5 cm across Download PDF

Quetta Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 32 cm long Download PDF The traders of the Indus Valley established an outpost at […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2.5 cm Download PDF The flat side is drilled with a walking human figure with […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 5 cm high Download PDF She stands on a square pedestal, elegantly coiffed and with […]

Indus Valley, 4th millennium BC Size: 2 cm diameter Download PDF Both surfaces of the seal are drilled, with a bird […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 5th millennium BC Size: 7 cm and 6.5 cm high Download PDF If the non-conformist Anglican archbishop James […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, circa 4000 BC Download PDF The appealing characteristic of the alabaster from which these vessels are made is […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 16 cm diameter × 9 cm high Download PDF Three yellow lions with manes of […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500 BC Size: 19.5 cm diameter Download PDF It has been suggested that the mysterious designs in black […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 19 cm high Download PDF This strikingly simple representation of a long-horned bull’s head is […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 21.5 cm diameter, 17.5 cm high Download PDF The entire outer wall of the […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 26 cm diameter Download PDF Decorated in red on a whitened ground with linked […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 14.5 × 11 cm Download PDF Painted on the inside with a human figure, […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 37 cm high Download PDF Decorated in black with a wealth of images […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 43 cm high, 35 cm diameter Download PDF   The decoration around this jar […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, early 3rd millennium BC Size: 36 cm high, 30 cm base diameter Download PDF The stand has […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3500–3000 BC Size: 18 cm diameter Download PDF Decorated in dark brown with three elongated zebu bulls, […]

Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 26 cm high Download PDF Painted in black, with three enormous lions stalking […]

Ancient Bactria, mid-3rd millennium BC Size: 13 × 13 cm Copper alloy overlaid with gold Download PDF These three horned […]

Ancient Bactria, 3000 BC, or earlier Size: 12 × 20 cm Download PDF This rare and unusually large animal figure […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 23 cm high Download PDF The comparison between this Owl and the carved-stone Bear […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 10.5 × 8 cm Download PDF Ancient heroes are shown wrestling with giant anacondas […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2 cm diameter Download PDF The intaglio is carved with a running antelope. Pierced […]

Ancient Bactria, late 3rd millennium BC Size: 6 cm high, 9 cm long Download PDF It is the naturalism of […]

Size: 9.2 cm high Download PDF 65–71 COLLECTION OF SEVEN BACTRIAN SILVER VESSELS Ancient Bactria, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BC Published: O. […]

Size: 4.2 cm high, 4.8 cm diameter Download PDF 65–71 COLLECTION OF SEVEN BACTRIAN SILVER VESSELS Ancient Bactria, late 3rd–early 2nd […]

Size: 6 cm high Download PDF 65–71 COLLECTION OF SEVEN BACTRIAN SILVER VESSELS Ancient Bactria, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BC Published: O. […]

Size: 13.5 cm high Download PDF 65–71 COLLECTION OF SEVEN BACTRIAN SILVER VESSELS Ancient Bactria, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BC Published: O. […]

Size: 7.8 cm high Download PDF 65–71 COLLECTION OF SEVEN BACTRIAN SILVER VESSELS Ancient Bactria, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BC Published: O. […]

Size: 6.7cm high, 7.5cm diameter Download PDF This scene of celebration with drinking and music is a fundamental reminder of […]

Size: 17.5cm high Download PDF This goblet presents a particularly rich iconography, but one which remains difficult to interpret unless […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 10.5 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, circa 2000 BC Size: 7.7 cm long Download PDF The exterior is engraved with spirals. The feline handle […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 12 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 4 cm high Download PDF This vessel is an example of extreme technical wizardry. It […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 8.5 cm high Download PDF It is rare to find such a typically Bronze Age […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 6.5 cm high, 7 cm wide Download PDF This unusual box and cover is carved […]

Ancient Bactria, 2nd millennium BC  Size: 2.5 cm long Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC  Size: 4 cm high, 6 cm wide Download PDF The body and wings of the eagle […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 6.3 cm across Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, circa 2500 BC Size: 13.5 cm diameter Download PDF Carved with an all-over design of sheep’s fleece.

Ancient Bactria, 2nd millennium BC  Size: 25 cm long Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 700 BC  Size: 19.5 cm long Download PDF The wonderful quality and colour of the lapis lazuli, and its […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 8 cm long Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 7 cm diameter Download PDF

Central Asia, circa 3500 BC Size: 17 cm high × 17 cm long Download PDF This is an interesting symbol of […]

Bactria, 4th–3rd millennium BC Size: 26.5 cm long Download PDF Incised down one side is a tall, elongated male figure, naked […]

Ancient Bactria, circa 3000 BC 4.5 cm high Download PDF   A monkey cult seems to have existed in Bactria in […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 6 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 2nd millennium BC Size: 5 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2.5 cm high Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2 cm long Download PDF

Altai region, early 19th century Size: 9 cm high, 10 cm wide Download PDF The great interest of this hood […]

Ancient Bactria and Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC  Download PDF a. Circular with a figure of a monkey, bronze. Size: […]

Ancient Bactria, mid-3rd century BC Size: 9 cm high, 11 cm long Download PDF It is not easy to identify the […]

Not illustrated Ancient Bactria, circa 3500 BC Size: 4 cm long

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 17–19 cm long Download PDF

Iran, 3rd–2nd millennium BC Size: 4–7 cm high Haematite, granite, limestone, alabaster Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 13 cm diameter; spout 10 cm long Download PDF It is made in three […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 1.7 cm high Download PDF

Eastern Iran, late 3rd millennium BC Size: 11.8 cm high Download PDF The big question that the group of figures to […]

Eastern Iran or Central Asia, circa 2000 BC Size: 35 cm long Download PDF A similar pin from the Louvre was […]

Bactria, 3rd–2nd millennium BC Size: 9.5 cm and 7.5 cm high Download PDF They are both cast with a human head […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 10 cm Download PDF A similar head made from red chlorite is recorded in Uzbekistan, […]

Central Asia, 3rd millennium BC Size: 24 cm diameter Download PDF The entire wall of the bowl is repoussé-worked, with a […]

Ancient Bactria, 6th century BC  Size: 5 cm long Download PDF The sculpture is finely cast, defining the musculature, facial […]

Central Asia, 4th century BC Size: 6 cm high Download PDF

Central Asia, 5th century BC Size: 4 cm high Download PDF The intaglio is cut with a figure of a horse; […]

Central Asia, 1st millennium BC Size: 9 cm, 7.5 cm and 7.5 cm high Download PDF Amulets like these have been […]

Central Asia, 4th–3rd century BC Size: 14 cm long Download PDF

Central Asia, 3rd century BC Size: 4.5 cm diameter Download PDF

Central Asia, 2nd century BC Size: 5 cm across Download PDF

Greco-Bactria, 2nd–1st century BC Size: 3.5 cm Download PDF

Central Asia, 4th century BC Size: 9.2 cm wide

Indo-Bactria, 1st century AD Size: 6.5 cm diameter The disc is pierced and carved with an amorous couple (maithuna). It appears […]

Southern Siberia, 5th–3rd century BC Size: 30 cm high Bronze and gold Download PDF This is one of the most important […]

Gandhara, 2nd century AD Size: 12 cm long Download PDF A female deity is seated between two attendants in the […]

Central Asia, 7th–6th century BC Size: 8 × 6 × 8 cm Download PDF The saiga antelope, with its characteristic long […]

Central Asia, 4th–3rd century BC  Size: 7 cm diameter Download PDF

Ordos, 5th century BC Size: 14.5 cm high Download PDF This unique pair of chariot fittings each have three boars copulating […]

Greco-Scythian, 2nd century BC Size: 13 cm high Download PDF She stands holding a large lotus flower in her right hand. […]

Indo-Bactria, 1st century AD Size: 11 cm high Download PDF The woman, decked out in all her jewels, lifts a finger […]

Gandhara, 2nd century AD  Size: 8.5 × 12.5 cm Download PDF Although usually described as a cosmetic dish, the obvious […]

Gandhara, 2nd–1st century BC Size: 8.5 × 9 cm Download PDF When Alexander the Great arrived in the Taxila valley in […]

Greater Gandhara, 5th–7th century AD Size: 8.5 × 13.5 cm  Download PDF This remarkable plaque shows a scene of a princely […]

Gandhara, 1st–4th century AD Size: 15 cm diameter Download PDF Hercules performed twelve Labours, of which this was one. His method […]

A Hellenistic Cosmetic Dish Greek Bactria, 2nd–1st century BC Size: 11.5 cm diameter Yellow chlorite Download PDF The remarkable feature of […]

Central India, 8th–9th century Size: 2.7 cm high Download PDF This ring is different from all the known bird rings […]

Indo-Bactria, 3rd–2nd century BC Size: 10 cm high Download PDF At the top of the pin is a young woman, probably […]

Central Asia, 5th–6th century AD Size: 10 cm long Download PDF The motif of a garlanded mouflon is frequently seen on […]

Central Asia, 5th century BC Size: 17.5 cm hig

Ancient Bactria, 2nd millennium BC Size: 4 cm

Indo-Greek Bactria, 1st–2nd century BC Size: 18.5 cm diameter Download PDF This sublime representation of bejewelled and confident naked female beauty […]

Rome, 2nd–3rd century AD Size: 32.5 cm high Download PDF The exact circumstances of this cult statue’s discovery remain unknown. It […]

Indo-Greek Bactria, 1st century AD Size: 6.2 cm high Download PDF This exquisite figure of a lithe and lissom beauty, naked […]

Greco-Bactria, 1st century BC Size: 11.8 × 8.3 cm Download PDF Ah, the elegance of those beauties from Bactria! We glimpse […]

Bactria, 1st–2nd century BC Size: 5 cm high Download PDF Loosely draped and largely naked, with a high chignon, she leans […]

Indo-Greek Gandhara, 2nd century BC Size: 7 cm diameter Download PDF Nana was the Zoroastrian goddess of royalty and power. When […]

Gandhara, 3rd–4th century AD Size: 12 × 7.2 cm Download PDF A comfortable cow lies on the underside amid swirling vegetation […]

Gandhara, 2nd–3rd century AD Size: 11 × 7 cm Download PDF The back is carved with a lion attacking an elephant.

Bactria, 2nd century BC Size: 3 cm Download PDF The seal shows a royal couple celebrating Nowruz, holding poppies, that look […]

Bactria, 2nd century BC Size: 3.2 cm high Download PDF This pod-shaped pendant is engraved with the figure of a […]

Gandhara, 2nd century BC Size: 3.5 cm Download PDF This is one of the first known representations of Gajalakshmi, who […]

Black Sea area, mid-4th century BC Size: 2.8 × 1.8 cm Download PDF The carving of this layered agate is […]

Central Asia, 5th–4th century BC Size: 6 × 4.5 cm Download PDF

Imperial Rome, late 1st century BC Size: 11.5 cm high Bronze, silver, copper Download PDF An old friend and much-esteemed […]

Greco-Bactria, 3rd–2nd century BC Size: 3 cm high Download PDF This miniature masterpiece of winged Eros playing a ‘guitar’, originally […]

Greco-Bactria, 2nd–1st century BC Size: 9.5 cm high Cast bronze Download PDF This delightful depiction of tipsy Bacchus is also […]

Roman, late 1st century BC Size: 6 cm long Download PDF The marvellous quality of carving indicates that it was […]

Britain, 1st–2nd century AD Size: 4 cm high Download PDF There are sixteen other recorded bronze figurines of bound prisoners, […]

Italy, early 5th century BC Size: 10 cm high Download PDF She wears a pointed bonnet over her long tresses, […]

Alexandria, circa 300 BC Size: 3.2 × 1.2 cm Download PDF The bezel is cast in high relief with a […]

Inscribed with the title and name of Menander I Soter Signed by the Greek lapidary Androkles Indo-Greek Bactria, 165–135 BC […]

Iran, 309–379 AD Size: 4.7 × 3.4 cm Download PDF Shapur II is known as ‘the Great’, because during his […]

Central Asia, 271–356 AD Size: 4 × 3.3 cm; 3 cm high Download PDF The large dome-shaped seal engraving depicts […]

Greater Gandhara, 3rd–4th century AD Size: 48 × 42 cm Stone Download PDF Coins provide the evidence for the transformation of […]

Arachosie, 3rd century BC Size: 8.7 cm diameter Download PDF It is astonishing how much can be clearly carved into a […]

Arachosie, 3rd century BC Size: 10 cm diameter Download PDF This mould is closely related to the bronze goblet that […]

Indo-Bactria, 3rd century BC Size: 3.2 cm high Download PDF The figure represents Prince Kunala after he had been blinded […]

Arachosie, late 2nd-early 1st century BC Size: 7.2 cm diameter; 4.5 cm high Download PDF In a remarkable article, Jarrige […]

Gandhara, 3rd–4th century AD Size: 63 cm high Download PDF There are four known sculptures of Siddhartha from the same […]

Swat Valley, mid-2nd century AD Size: 10.5 cm high Download PDF The first Buddha images were made in the Swat […]

Swat Valley or Bajaur, 1st–2nd century AD Size: 15 cm high Download PDF Bronze masks of Shiva and Bodhisattvas are […]

Gandhara, 2nd–3rd century Size: 9 cm high Download PDF The first serious missionary efforts on behalf of Buddhism were made […]

Gandhara, 2nd century AD Size: 7 cm high Download PDF This small image of Buddha can be dated to the […]

Gandhara, 2nd–4th century AD Size: 9.5 cm high Bronze Download PDF Published: O. Bopearachchi, C. Landes, C. Sachs, De l’Indus […]

Indo-Greek Bactria, 5th century AD Size: 16.5 cm high Download PDF The lower half of this figure would have been […]

Greater Gandhara, 5th–6th century AD Size: 5 cm high Download PDF

Greater Gandhara, 5th–6th century AD Size: 5.3 × 8.6 cm Download PDF The mounted king is shooting a lion. He […]

Gandhara, 1st–2nd century AD Size: 15 cm high Download PDF Skanda was the son of Shiva and Parvati, but unlike […]

Swat Valley, 7th century AD Size: 7.5 cm high Silver Download PDF The lotus base, with leaves like artichokes, is […]

Swat Valley, 5th–6th century AD Size: 5 cm high Download PDF Seated on a rectangular lotus base, she holds a […]

Greater Gandhara, 6th century AD Size: 7.5 cm high Download PDF This figure is closely related to others in the […]

Indo-Bactria, 3rd century BC Size: 4 cm high Download PDF

Kham Zargar, Afghanistan, 1st century AD Size: 19.5 cm high, 34.5 cm diameter  Download PDF The sieve is pierced with […]

Gandhara, 5th century AD Size: 7.5 cm high Download PDF Four long-necked geese hold up a lotus throne capital with […]

Afghanistan, 8th–9th century AD Size: 3.1 cm high Download PDF Hinduism was prevalent in the Kabul Valley, from where this […]

Probably from Loulan, Xinjiang, 3rd century AD Size: 37 × 25 cm Download PDF Guardian kings, bearing swords and wearing […]

Northern Afghanistan, 6th–7th century AD Size: 5.2 × 6 cm Download PDF The only known comparable stamp is in the […]

Northern Afghanistan, 6th–7th century AD Size: 2 cm diameter Download PDF There are six lines of Brahmi script, and beading […]

Northern Afghanistan, 6th–7th century AD Size: 5.7 cm diameter Download PDF Engraved with six lines of Brahmi script, and petals […]

Kashmir, 7th century AD Size: 20 cm long Download PDF The Sanskrit inscription is drilled in dots around the upper […]

Marind-anim people, New Guinea, 19th century Size: 28 cm long Download PDF The Marind-anim people were much-feared cannibals of the […]

Central America, 1st half 1st millennium BC Size: 32 cm long Download PDF

Greco-Bactria, 3rd–2nd century BC Size: 7 cm long Download PDF

Probably medieval Size: 13.5 cm long Download PDF The stone is marcasite (iron sulphide), and the phallus had a dual […]

Tibet, ancient  Size: 25 cm long  Download PDF This phallus, with its marvellous molasses-like patina, is made of mammoth ivory […]

Kashmir, 7th century AD Size: 7 cm high Download PDF

Greater Gandhara, 5th century AD Size: 5 cm square Download PDF

Khmer, Angkor period, 12th–13th century Size: 46 cm high Download PDF

Nepal, 19th century Size: 4 cm high, 6.5 cm diameter Wood Download PDF For obvious reasons the female sex, unlike […]

Carthage, Tunisia, 2nd–4th century Size: 11.5 cm long These three lamps, all from what is now Tunisia and then part […]

Roman, 1st–2nd century AD 3 cm long In the form of a lamp with a phallus in relief on its […]

Roman from Central Asia, 4th century AD Size: 6.5 cm wide At the top is the shell of Aphrodite.

Argentina, 20th century Size: 325 cm high, 50 cm wide Download PDF

Constantinople, 5th–6th century AD Size: 4.5 cm high Download PDF It is easy to assume that the two birds inside […]

Constantinople, 12th century Size: 3.5 cm high Download PDF The ring has a cross on a stepped bezel, with finely […]

Bactria, 1st century BC Size: 4.5 × 3 cm bezel Download PDF

Constantinople, 6th century AD Size: 14.5 cm diameter Weight: 312 grams Download PDF This weight appears to be the largest […]

Rome, 4th–5th century AD Size: 36 cm diameter Download PDF The banded agate has swirling maculae, a quality much appreciated in […]

Yemen, 3rd–2nd century BC Size: 30.5 × 20 cm Download PDF

South Arabia, 3rd–2nd century BC Size: 45 × 75 cm Download PDF Made a long time ago, and yet the […]

Copied by ‘Ali bin Ahmad al-Warraq Qairouan, Tunisia, dated Ramadan AH 410 / AD 1020  Size: 44.6 × 30.6 cm  Download PDF […]

Egypt, second half 14th century Size: 34 × 24 cm Download PDF These elegant pages, written in super-fluid muhaqqaq calligraphy, […]

Signed by Isma’il Zuhdi Istanbul, Turkey, dated AH 1198 / AD 1783  Size: 21.5 × 33.5 cm Download PDF The interest of […]

Supposedly Mesopotamia, circa 1220 Probably Turkey, early 20th century Size: 28 × 19.5 cm Watercolour and ink on paper And […]

Bearing the Tamgha of Möngke Khan (1209–1259) Mongol Empire, 1251–1259 Size: 26.5 cm long with spout Download PDF Möngke Khan’s […]

Central Asia, 13th century Size: 3 cm  Download PDF The hemispherical boss is repoussé-worked with the figures of four running […]

Anatolia, 11th century Size: 12.5 cm diameter Download PDF The iconography of this outstanding plaque is fascinating and extraordinary. A […]

Syria, circa 1300 Size: 30.5 cm length with tail; 11.5 cm maximum width Kufic inscriptions: May God prolong its life… […]

Cairo, Egypt, circa AD 1290  Size: 20 cm long Carved wood with bone Download PDF Each of the plaques was nailed […]

Egypt, 10th–11th century AD Size: jar 56 cm high; stand 32 cm high Download PDF The jar is fluted, with […]

Probably Nishapur, Iran, 11th century Size: 6.2 cm high Download PDF This two-horned gaming piece is the equivalent of our […]

Afghanistan, 10th – 11th century A cruciform belt fitting engraved with an elaborated Kufic inscription. Size: 4 × 4.2 cm […]

Khorassan, 11th–12th century AD Size: 9 cm high, 8.7 cm diameter Cast bronze, gilding, niello Download PDF The shape of this […]

Herat, Afghanistan, first half 15th century Size: 7.52 cm high, 3.57 × 3.59 cm base Download PDF The seal is […]

Azerbaijan or Eastern Anatolia, 2nd half 15th century Size: 24 cm high Download PDF The reason for dating this mask […]

Syria, mid-15th century AD Size: 19 cm high Download PDF This tile, underglaze painted in blue on white with the […]

Turkey, circa 1500 AD Size: 17.5 cm, Mammoth ivory and wood Download PDF Apart from the elegance of design the […]

Herat, Afghanistan, 16th–17th century Size: 16.5 cm long Download PDF In hot climates the soundtrack of gardens comes from frogs, […]

Probably Herat, Afghanistan, late 15th century Size: 10.5 cm diameter Download PDF This talisman is most unusual, and in the […]

Turkey, 18th century or earlier Size: 8 cm diameter Download PDF This example is unusual for its various attachments; a […]

Inscribed with the name of Atziz Kwarezm Shah Central Asia, 1127–1156 Size: 2.5 cm Download PDF Sometimes tiny objects pack […]

Ghazna, Afghanistan, AH 613 / AD 1216–17  Weight: 44.48 grams Size: 4.5 cm diameter Download PDF This rare numismatic masterpiece is one […]

1814–1866 Shunga–Persica Iran, second half 19th century Gouache on paper Size: 22.3 × 34 cm Download PDF When Christie’s illustrated […]

North India, 17th century Size: 6 cm Download PDF

India, Deccan or Mughal, second quarter 17th century Size: 19.5 cm long Download PDF The bowl of the spoon is […]

North India, 17th century Size: 13 cm and 10 cm high Download PDF

Ottoman Bosnia, 18th century Size: 12 × 10 cm Download PDF The inscription in Persian, ‘Yadgar-e-Saray Bosnia’ means ‘Memento of […]

Iran, 17th century Size: 24 cm with key Download PDF It bears a quatrain reported as being recited by Ibn […]

Iran, circa 1909 Size: 4 × 4.5 cm Download PDF The Anjoman-e Okhovat, the ‘Order of Fraternity’, was established in […]

Turkey, 18th–19th century Size: 50 cm long Carved wood Download PDF   We know this belonged to a Bektashi dervish […]

Turkey, 18th–19th century Size: 3.5 × 2.8cm Silver frame and loop Download PDF

Iran, mid–16th century Size: 39.5 × 26 cm Download PDF The manuscript has 317 folios, and 6 fly-leaves. The text […]

South Italy or Sicily, circa 1200 Size: 39 cm long Download PDF That this bronze is medieval is not in […]

Berlin, Germany, mid-18th century Size: 102 × 149 cm Oil on canvas Download PDF The pelts of the Oranienburg fox […]

Germany, 16th century Size: 18.5 cm high Download PDF Exhibited and published: An Exhibition of Medieval, Renaissance and Islamic Works […]

South Germany, 12th century Size: 66 cm high Limewood Download PDF A long river journey has worn smooth and reshaped […]

Japan, Heian period (794–1185), early 12th century Size: 35 cm high Hikoki (Japanese cypress wood) Download PDF Sculptures of Nagare […]

Japan, circa 1900  Size: 32 × 22 cm Download PDF The magical surface of this tray is the result of […]

Japan, 19th century Size: 12 × 7.5 cm Download PDF This exquisite thick slice of ivory, with its honey-coloured patina […]

Japan, 18th century Size: 76 cm diameter Download PDF The contrast between the rough wood and the smooth surface of […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 2.4 cm diameter Download PDF THE EVIL EYE One morning, Bahaudin Naqshband went into […]

Indus Valley, 3rd millennium BC Size: 3.5 cm long Silver mount Download PDF

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC; engraved 10th/11th century AD Size: 3 × 2.5 cm Download PDF The bezel is engraved with […]

Afghanistan, 1st–2nd century AD Size: 12.5 cm high Download PDF Around her neck she wears a necklace with a talisman […]

Spain, early 17th century Size: 8 × 4.5 cm Download PDF Published and exhibited: J. Kugel, Joyeaux Renaissance, Une Splendeur […]

Sri Lanka, dated 1771 Size: 14.5cm high Download PDF The amorous scene, the trumpeting winged cherubs above the initials ‘CBI’ […]

Probably Ayudhya, Siam, 16th century Size: 11.5 cm diameter, 11.3 cm high; wood mount 17 cm high Ivory and wood […]

19th century Size: 151 × 98 cm Eider down and puffin skins Download PDF I hesitated to include this blanket […]

Mario Ruspoli to John Hewett, 1971 Download PDF When someone like John Hewett disappears, an archive of the endeavours of […]

Bering Sea, 1336–AD 1458  Size: 3.8 cm high Download PDF This tiny head has an unexpected feature: when viewed against […]

Alaska, 19th century Size: 36 cm long Download PDF

East Coast America, 19th century Size: 96.5 cm long Download PDF The cane is made from the rib of a […]

Okvik Culture, St Lawrence Sound, 400 BC–AD 100 Size: 24.5 cm long Download PDF

Jamestown, Massachusetts, 17th–18th century Size: 19 cm long Buffalo horn In 1607, three ships carrying 104 men landed at a […]

Portugal, 19th century Size: 1m 20cm high Oak and mahogany Download PDF A whaler was wrecked by a storm off […]

On kind loan from a private collection Download PDF SEA OTTER 16th–17th century Size: 9 cm long The sea otter […]

The Monte Region of Argentina Size: 7 to 10 cm Download PDF These mysterious stones come from the collection of […]

Peru, age of engraving disputed Size: 19 × 15 cm Download PDF There have been many magical objects that have […]

The Twenty-Eight Phases of the Moon (December, 2015) Size: 60 × 30 cm Oil on canvas Download PDF In 2012, […]

Mezcala, West Coast of Mexico, 700 BC–AD 300  Size: 17.8 cm high Hard stone Download PDF He gazes into other […]

Mezcala, West Coast of Mexico, 700 BC–AD 300  Size: 19 cm high Serpentine Download PDF If you care to look […]

Size: 49 × 31 cm Weight: 70 kg approximately Meteorite type: Iron Structural Classification: Coarse Octahedrite Group I. 6.68% Ni; […]

Imilac, Chile Size: 160 × 110 mm Weight: 196 g and 214 g Download PDF It says a lot for […]

Russia, found 1967 Size: 11 cm Weight: 5,800 g Download PDF Seymchan is a pallasite meteorite found in the dry […]

Cabuchon lodestone mounted in silver and steel Bezel size: 3.2 × 2.3 cm Download PDF Lodestone is one of only […]

Gweru District, Zimbabwe Size: 41 × 26 × 23 cm Download PDF

Fontainebleau, France, circa 30 million years old Size: 20 cm high Download PDF Formed from grains of quartz cemented by […]

Holland, 18th century Size: 40 cm high Weight: 75 kg approximately Download PDF

Probably Linghi County, Anhui Province, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) Size: 53 cm high Calcite with fitted rosewood base Download PDF Chinese […]

English, dated 1628 Size: Apple 6 cm diameter, 8 cm high with stalk; Skull 4.5 cm high Silver, colours, leather […]

Haiti, 19th century Size: 9 cm high Old label: Polished pewter cane top from Voodoo priest staff. Haiti, 19th c. […]

France, 16th–17th century Size: 5 cm high Download PDF There is another version in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, but […]

France, 18th century Size: 3.3 cm Download PDF

France, circa 1800 Size: 7 cm high Download PDF

France, 18th century Size: 4.5 cm high Download PDF

Probably Venice, 16th–17th century Size: 13 cm Weight: 2.4 kg Download PDF This unusual bead was found on one of […]

Satan in Council Mezzotint and engraving, 1824 Size: 480 × 701 mm One of approximately ten known impressions on wove […]

Les Sataniques The complete series of Felicien Rops’ extraordinary Les Sataniques. Vernis mou on Japan paper, each signed or initialled […]

North America, early 20th century Size: 1m 77cm high Download PDF Interest in the balalaika in America developed as a […]

from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Inscription: ‘The disciple of xxx [place, erased] xxx mao [name, erased] signed respectfully. […]

Gandaki River, Nepal, ancient from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF One of Jean-Claude’s abiding passions was for mysterious stones. […]

Nepal, ancient. Size: 8.5 cm long from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard

Tibet, 18th–19th century, or older Size of mortar: 9.5 × 7 cm from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Probably Benares, made for the Nepali Temple, 19th century Size: 8 cm high, base 6.5 cm square from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s […]

Probably Benares, made for the Nepali Temple, 19th century Size: 6 cm high, base 9 cm square from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s […]

Nepal, 16th–17th century Size: 6.7 cm square from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Tibet, 17th century or earlier Size: 15 × 10 cm from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Exhibited and Published: […]

Tibet, ancient Size: 20 cm from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Cups made from the human skull are a […]

Haiti, 19th century Size: 52 cm long Steel and brass from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Objects connected with […]

Himalayan region, ancient Size: 13 cm long Brown stone from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Mound Culture, Illinois, circa 1500–1200 bc Size: 12.5 cm diameter  from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

China, river-polished, probably collected in the Ming period, 16th–17th century Size: 14 cm wide from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download […]

from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF 296  CONSTELLATED RED PORPHYRY GRINDING STONE AND PESTLE India, 19th century or earlier […]

England, 18th century Size: 21 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

England, first half 19th century Size: 23.5 cm, 17 cm and 11 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download […]

Germany, 17th–18th century Size: 25 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Germany, 18th century Size: 10.5–3 cm diameter from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF The interest in this group of […]

Byzantine Empire, 10th–11th century Size: 33.5 cm diameter from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF For a silver-gilt mounted alabaster […]

Japan, 19th century Size: 28 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF The species originated in South Africa, […]

Himalayan region, naturally formed Size: 24 cm, 16 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Found in rivers, […]

415–250 million years old; base circa 1800 Fossil size: 19 cm high, 25 cm long Base size: 11 cm high, […]

Western India, early 18th century Size: 11.5 × 26.3 cm Colours on paper from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF […]

Japan, 17th century Size: 6.5 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF I remember very well the day […]

Jain, Gujarat, 18th century Size: 31 × 13 cm Opaque watercolour on wood from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF […]

France, early 19th century Size: 42.5 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Italy, early 19th century Size: Table 15 cm high; Sphere 7.5 cm diameter from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

Central India, 14th–15th century Size: 33 cm and 19 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

France, early 19th century Size: 32 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF These are rare three-dimensional realizations […]

New Kingdom, 1550–1070 BC Size: 14 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF Jean-Claude obviously had a taste […]

Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1550–1292 BC Size: 19 cm long Carved wood from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF This beard […]

The Levant, early 1st millennium BC Size: 8 cm high from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

New Kingdom, 1550–1070 BC Size: 16.5 cm high, 29.5 cm long from JEAN-CLAUDE CIANCIMINO’s Alchemical toy-cupboard Download PDF

1927–1983 ‘And on the Seventh Day God ended His work which He had made’ New York, 1959–75 Size: 20 × 16cm […]

A l’Heure de l’Observatoire – les Amoureux Size: Image: 35.5 × 89.8 cm, Sheet: 60.5 × 105.3 cm Lithograph printed […]

Mae West’s Lips Sofa Made, and re-branded ‘Marilyn Lips’, by Studio 65, 1972 Size: 84 cm high, 205.5 cm wide […]

Cadeau Cast metal multiple, 16.5 cm high Signed, titled and numbered 4822/5000 in white ink on the handle Initialled and […]

Poire d’Erik Satie Colour lithograph on paper, 1969 Size: 45.7 × 29.2 cm Signed with monogram (lower right) and numbered […]

Priapus, God of Fertility Edition of Galerie Iolas, 1972, signed and numbered 185/500 Size: 52 cm high, 30 cm diameter […]

Palettes No. IV Multiple, with wood and paint, 1969 Size: 71 × 51 cm (outer margins) Signed and numbered 35/74 […]

Stamped: ‘Young, 37 Gower St WC, 1888’ Made for E. Hinchcliffe Size: 60 cm Download PDF It is obvious why […]

George Washington Bridge with “B” Lithograph, 1931–32 Size: 35.2 × 25 cm Full margins. Edition of 50 (from an intended […]

Men of Steel Drypoint, circa 1940 Size: 378 × 295 cm. Full margins. Edition of 250. Signed and titled in […]

Laguna Cove Wood engraving on Japan paper, 1935 Size: 13.2 × 7.9 cm Full margins. Edition of 200. Signed and […]

Smoke Tree Wood engraving on Japan paper, 1953 Size: 20 × 15 cm. Full margins. Artist’s proof, aside from the […]

Desert Wall Wood engraving, 1932 Size: 14 × 17.8 cm Full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 7/50 in pencil (lower […]

Sultry Day Wood engraving, 1937 Size: 20.3 × 15.2 cm Full margins. Edition of 200, published by American Artists Group, […]

The Sentinel of the Mesa Not illustrated Lithograph on cream laid paper, 1933 Size: 40 × 50 cm Wide margins. […]

Windwhipped Pines Lithograph, circa 1928 Size: 40.5 × 56 cm Full margins. Signed and titled in pencil (lower margin). A […]

Shallow Creek Lithograph, circa 1928 Full margins. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil (lower right). Published by Associated American Artists, […]

Moonlight Lithograph, 1926 Size: 35.6 × 42.9 cm. Wide margins. Edition of 60. Signed, titled and dated in pencil (lower […]

A Negro Group Wood engraving on thin laid Japan paper, circa 1927 Size: 18.7 × 22.1 cm. Full margins. Signed […]

Germany, mid-19th century Case size: 56 × 90 cm Leather, fabrics, feathers and brass; mahogany, green baize and original glass […]

England, 15th–16th century Size: 5 cm long Download PDF Birds of prey were trained to return to the call of […]

London, 19th century Case size: 79 × 113 cm (open) 74 chisels (one missing from the full set of 75) […]

Kenyah-Kayan style, Mahakam River, East Kalimantan, Borneo, 19th century Size: 115 cm long, 26 cm high, 30 cm wide. Hardwood, […]

Ivory Coast, 19th century Download PDF a.  long-beaked bird of abstract form, 21 cm high. b.  man clasping his beard […]

Southern Africa, probably by a Nguni sculptor, circa 1900 Size: 32 cm high Download PDF Presented to girls on their […]

South-central Congo, along the Wamba River, circa 1930 Size: 11.5 cm high, 14.5 cm wide Download PDF This cup had […]

Mbole tribe, Central Congo, 19th century Size: 24 cm Weight: 1.8 kg Download PDF Copper was wealth in the Congo […]

Ifugao people, Luzon, Philippines, 19th century Size: 36 cm diameter Download PDF This classic Ifugao artefact, adzed from hardwood, has […]

Solomon Islands, 19th century Size: 14 cm – 6.7 cm Download PDF For smaller transactions in the Solomon Islands, too […]

Rubiana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, collected in 1895 Size: 17 cm. Weight: 1.48 kg Download PDF Such island currencies were not […]

Cameroon, 19th century Size: 26 cm long Weight: 53 g Download PDF

Ibo tribe, Nigeria, 19th century Size: 41 cm Weight: 2.78 kg Download PDF Spirally twisted copper was the original currency […]

Cook Islands, early 19th century Size: 18 cm long Download PDF Known as a matau by the Cook Islanders, this […]

Cambodia, mid-20th century Size: 28 × 46 cm Ox-horn and steel Download PDF The horn gathered a beak-full of rice, […]

New Britain, circa 1900 Size: 22 cm maximum diameter The largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain was known […]

Ancient Bactria, 3rd millennium BC Size: 9 cm across Download PDF

Pacific Islands, pre-Contact Size: 18 cm long Download PDF

Pacific Islands, pre-Contact Size: 32 cm long Download PDF

Orissa, 18th century Size: 20.6 cm high Download PDF She presents herself very boldly, unlike coy Greek Aphrodite. She reflects […]

North India, circa 1600 Size: 4.5 cm high Download PDF The ivory is carved in the form of a lion’s […]

Deccan, 17th century Size: 26.5 × 11.5 × 9 cm Download PDF There are similar pen-boxes in the Museum fur […]

Not illustrated Big Island of Hawaii, 17th–18th century Size: 17.5 cm and 16.5 cm long Of typical faceted Polynesian shape […]

‘Coiffed to Kill’ Lagos, Nigeria, 28th January 2011 Size: 60 × 49.5 cm Download PDF Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere was […]

Central Congo region, circa 1900 Size: 24 cm high Download PDF The Lele people, related to the Kuba tribe, live […]

1887– 1970 A Ventriloquist at Christie’s Size: 34 × 49 cm Watercolour on paper Download PDF H.M. Bateman was the […]

From the Rosehill Collection Circa 2,400 BC, type 1 Dagger Period Sizes: 21.2 cm, 20.2 cm, 19.2 cm, 19 cm, […]

Renaissance Rome, 17th century Size: 1 m 20 cm Parian marble

Rome, 1st half of 20th century Size: 90 cm high Parian marble

Central Europe, circa 1000 BC Sizes: a.24cm high. b.21cm high. c.13cm high.

South Arabia, 1st-2nd century AD Sizes: a.21 cm high (inlaid eyes); b. 22bm high

South Arabia, 1st-2nd century AD Size: 20.5 cm

Antilles, West Indies, 900-1500 Size: 15 cm high

Probably from Bhutan, early 20th century Size: 30 cm long With suspension loop

A Narcissus Iran, early 18th century Size: 29 x 19 cm album page: 15 x 11.5 cm painting Gouache and […]

Probably Herat, Khurasan, second half 15th century Size: 13.5 cm high This appears to be the only known example of […]

Sicily, 12th-13th century Size: 12 x 8 x 8 cm Lined with late medieval textile Provenance: Lionel Harris (1862-1942)

By George Baxter, 1857 Size: 13 x 9 cm Vah-Ta-Ah was the daughter of Cakobau, the “cannibal king” of Fiji. […]

South Africa, 1889 Size: 12 x 16 cm

France, 19th century Size: 10 cm high

Sunflowers. 2017 Size: 60 x 40 cm Oil on canvas

19th century, some earlier a.  A Walrus Tusk, facetted and decorated in scrimshaw with multiple scenes of hunting , with […]

Germany, early 20th century Size: 8 cm high Download PDF

North-West Coast USA, 19th century Size: 72 cm long

Central Asia, 6th-5th century BC Size: 3 cm high Download PDF The Scythians established the first nomadic empire of Central […]

Tabriz or Baghdad, circa 1310 AD Size: 30 x 22 cm The manuscript is the first juz’ of a 30-part […]

Probably Herat, Afghanistan, early 16th century AD Size: 22.5 x 15 cm Lacquer binding, circa 1600 AD The manuscript has […]

Mound Culture, Illinois, circa 1500-1200 BC Size: 26.5 cm long Provenance: David Knight Estate, London. The hard stone is a […]