Two counterweight tournebroches, France, mid-17cent (l) to mid-18 cent (r) [2796×1290]December 16, 2025
Hanukkah menorah. Manufactured by La Maison Desny, Paris, ca. 1930. Silver-plate and brass. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, collection [703×527]December 16, 2025
Woman with short hair in the Fayum portrait. The painting dates from the Hadrianic period, dating to approximately the 2nd century CE. [1200×2111]December 16, 2025
A 11,000-year-old small stone plaque, from Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, depicting from the left to the right: a snake moving upwards, a stylized human figure (?) with raised arms, and a bird [884×1196]December 16, 2025
A 3,5 cm soapstone statue of 2 wrestlers, from Gonur Depe in Turkmenistan, depicting one of them performing an armlock on the other. 2500-1500 BCE, now housed at the State Museum of Turkmenistan [1023×1292]December 16, 2025
3,500-year-old breads from the foundation deposit for Hatshepsut’s tomb. Egypt, New Kingdom, 1479–1458 BC [820×760]December 15, 2025
Ceramic wine ewer shaped like the character 壽 (Longevity). China, Qing dynasty, 1662-1722 [1630×1700]December 15, 2025
Arm Reliquary, South Netherlandish, gilded silver over wood core, c 1230 [1200 x 1200]December 15, 2025