Jadeite Face Mask, Olmec Civilization, Mesoamerica, c.10th–6th century BCE.[1588×1626]February 5, 2025
Terracotta relief depicting goddess Athena supervising the building of the ship Argo, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. Found at Rome & dated to the 1st c. CE. Now in the British museum, nr. 1805,0703.301 [1835 x 2048]February 4, 2025
Aristotle’s Nichmachean Ethics and Politics, Circa 1275-1300. In the translation of William of Moerbeke. To date, the rarest acquisition in my entire career [4032×3024]February 4, 2025
The Berlin Secretary Cabinet made in 1779 by David Roentgen for King Frederick William II of Prussia. It’s a large writing desk, topped with a chiming clock and festooned with marquetry panels, secret doors, drawers, counterweight systems and mechanisms that give it life-like complexity [3958×3700]February 4, 2025
A wooden bucket with a waterfowl’s head. 4000-2000 BCE, from the Gorbunovsky peat bog in Russia, now housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow [1600×565]February 4, 2025
The “Bearded Man of Vado all’Arancio” is a 11,600-year-old engraved limestone slab found near Massa Marittima in Italy. Now housed at the Florentine Museum and Institute of Prehistory [1025×1920]February 4, 2025
Bronze axe shaped like an elephant. China, Western Zhou dynasty, 1000-900 BC [1178×1400]February 4, 2025
Dolní Vĕstonice portrait head, the oldest known portrait of a person. Carved from mammoth ivory in about 24000 B.C., found in Czechia [3413×1920]February 4, 2025
Crown of Augustus III of Saxony, made for his coronation as a King of Poland. Created by Johann Köhler in Dresden in 1733. Gilded silver, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds (now replaced with imitations). In collection of National Museum in Warsaw. [5457×5457]February 4, 2025
