4th century BC

Lot 1216. A large greyish-green jade dragon-form pendant, Warring States period, 4th century BC; 7½in. (19 cm.) wide. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price realised USD 18,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019 The pendant is carved in the form of a dragon with S-shaped body, its head with slit mouth and coiled snout, turned towards the arched back and curling, bifurcated tail. Each side is carved in low relief with comma spirals within plain borders. A small suspension hole is drilled from one... [Lire la suite]

Lot 508. A rare copper-inlaid archaic bronze wine vessel with gilt bosses, fanghu, Warring States period, 4th century BC. Height 19 in., 48.2 cm. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 USD. Lot sold 288,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. of square section, with a tall slightly flaring neck leading down to a swelling belly, cast overall with gilt-raised bosses reserved on a finely cast lozenge ground with a hooks-and-volutes pattern and inlaid with copper niello, each diamond separated by diagonal bands of... [Lire la suite]

Attic red-figure bell krater. Four nude maenads and a satyr cavort around a laver in their midst, in which a nude, winged Eros alights. Rev: Three draped youths. 4th Century BC. H. 15 3/8 in. (39 cm). $47,500 © Royal-Athena Galleries. Provenance: Ex Belgium private collection, acquired in the 1980s; Munich art market, April 2008. Royal-Athena Galleries. 14 Old Bond Street, London W1S 4PP, United Kingdom            

Lot 1003. Large vase with handles, so-called "Grabkratere", Apulia, 4th century BC. Estimate: CHF 20 000 / 30 000 (€ 18 520 / 27 780). Sold for CHF 18 000. Photo Koller Painted clay. Restorations on the base and the handles. H 69 cm. Provenance: - formerly part of the Saumur Collection, France. The Gallery possesses the "Certificat d'exportation pour un bien culturel" as well as the export and import documents.The 2016 CIRAM thermoluminescence test confirms the age indicated for the vase... [Lire la suite]

Late Antique Gemstone Ring, Roman, 4th century. Gold and garnets. Hoop outer diam. 27.8 mm; hoop inner diam. 17.8 mm.; weight 5.04 gr. Griffin Collection, L.2015.72.38 © 2000–2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Eros, Hellenistic, early 2nd century BC. Terracotta. H 39.3 cm. Courtesy Galerie Galerie Günter et Puhze.  Literature: Freddie Küng, Luzern, catalogue Schweizerische Kunst- und Antiquitäten-Messe, Basel 1972, p. 18. Calyx krater by the Underworld Painter, Apulian, 4th century BC. Clay. H 59.5 cm. Courtesy Galerie Galerie Günter et Puhze.  Provenance: Belgian private collection, Liege, acquired in the early 1970sLiterature: LIMC, Supplt 2009, vol. 1, p. 176/177, vol. 2 p.... [Lire la suite]

Anish Kapoor (Bombay, 1954), Untitled, 2013. Alabaster, 102 x 120 x 37 cm. Axel Vervoordt © TEFAF Maastricht, 2016 Otto Piene (Laasphe 1928-2014 Berlin), Lichtsirene, 1959-60. Acrylic paint on canvas, 110 x 110 cm. Signed, titled and dated on the overlap 'Piene 59-60 Lichtsirene'. Axel Vervoordt © TEFAF Maastricht, 2016 Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), Untitled, 1959-60. Oil on canvas, 106 x 75 cm. Signed and dated 'Mack 59/60'. Axel... [Lire la suite]

This picture taken on May 20, 2015 shows a detail of a mural in the burial chamber in a replica of the Thracian tomb of Kazanlak, dated back to the 4th century BC in the central Bulgarian town of Kazanlak. Experts say there are a total of over 15,000 Thracian burial mounds in Bulgaria, a tenth of them in the so-called Valley of the Thracian Kings around Kazanlak. The tombs -- already looted in the past or sometimes packed with gifts of gold -- are pretty much the only surviving remnants of the Thracian civilisation that inhabited... [Lire la suite]

Icon of Saint George (detail), mid-14th century. Byzantine. Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago CHICAGO, IL.- The popular exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections at the Art Institute of Chicago has been extended for three months beyond its original closing date of Feb. 15, 2015. The show, which presents more than 60 superb artworks of the Byzantine era, from the 4th to the 15th centuries, will remain on view through May 10, 2015.  ... [Lire la suite]

Hellenistic, cameo, 4th century BC. Hippolyte with a hunting companion,Phaedra with her nurse (right). Phaedra entrusts the nurse with a message declaring her love, her stepson Hyppolite refuses her advances. Greek myth and play by Euripides. Cameo, 4,1 x 3 cm. Inv. 25834. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy.