December 15th, 2021.
We’ve been busy uploading a stash of fantastic Ancient Artifacts.
Many of these items were only ‘re-discovered’ during the recent months of lockdown, where we investigated the deepest storage rooms at Moorabool Antiques: here we found Paul’s accumulations of interesting artifacts, collected while in the UK as a student in the 1990’s. This was a time when metal detectors were becoming common, and every farmers field was apparently littered with delightful little bronze pieces from antiquity.
The Thames River in London was another prime hunting ground; after being used as a dump since prehistory, there was something from every period of history to be found there with a little effort.
Paul was actively buying these small finds from the finders; anything they unearthed was their own to do with as they pleased, and while most would have a collection of their own, multiples or lesser pieces were happily sold off – and happily bought by Paul! Bundled up & shipped to Australia, with the intention of selling, they were forgotten about after the ‘big move’ of 2000, when we moved into our new premises. It was quite a pleasant shock to unearth a small crate, at the back of a store room, full of fascinating artifacts. Now the challenge is to catalogue, mount & present them online. We’re doing ‘spins’ of them as well, so plenty to see & enjoy if you like ancient items…
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Fresh Antiquities
Here’s the latest from the Past for you!
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Small Bronze mortar, SE Asia, 19th c. or earlier$195.00 AUD -
Roman pottery oil lamp with moulded shoulder, 2nd – 4th century ADSold -
Original Roman pottery oil lamp, 2nd – 4th century AD$155.00 AUD -
Roman pottery oil lamp, Egyptian origin, 3rd – 4th century AD$165.00 AUD -
Black Basalt plaque of a Philosopher, in early Australian Cedar frame, attracted. Neale & Co, c. 1790Sold -
Ancient Greek pottery deity head, 6th century BC$425.00 AUD -
Ancient Greek Olpe, Daunian, South Italy, circa 4th century BC$595.00 AUD -
Greek Pottery Tazza, black glaze, South Italian, 5th century BC$580.00 AUD -
Small Hellenistic Greek ‘salt’ dish, lotus petal design, 4th century BCSold -
Keichousaurus hui, Fossil Dinosaur almost complete juvenile skeleton, Triassic, around 220 Million Years OldSold -
Small jarlet, painted in blue with lively chich chòe birds+ bamboo, Hoi An shipwreck, Vietnam, latter 15th Century.$580.00 AUD -
Sawankhalok (Thai) stoneware box, larger size, 14th-15th centurySold -
Khmer (Cambodia) stoneware dish, brown/green glaze, 10th century$390.00 AUD -
Song Qingbai vase, lotus petal carved, 12th-13th century AD$750.00 AUD -
Chinese Qingbai ‘fish dish’, Song Dynasty 12th – 13th century AD$580.00 AUD -
Tang dynasty footed dish, white glaze, 8th century AD$395.00 AUD -
Sukhothai (Thailand) stoneware jarlet, double flutes, latter 15th century$245.00 AUD -
Chinese Tang dynasty white glazed wine cup, 8th century AD$430.00 AUD -
Chinese Ivory glaze vase, Tang – Song Dynasty, 10th-13th century$3,800.00 AUD -
Australian Aboriginal early stone-carved wood Woomera, 19th centurySold -
Engraved West Australian Aboriginal pearlshell riji – jakoli, geometric meander engraving, earlier 20th centurySold -
Basil “Biggie” Albert, Broome, pair of engraved West Australian Aboriginal pearlshells, animals, c.1980Sold -
Large fossil Ammonite, Gonioclymenia species, Morocco$395.00 AUD -
Fossil Plesiosaur tooth in rock, Plesiosaurus mauritanicus sp., 100 million years old, Morocco$135.00 AUD -
Pyrite Sun specimen, Pyrite ‘Fool’s Gold’ flowerlike specimen$75.00 AUD