Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 107

The Manuscript & Collectibles Auction

Antiquities

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 677		Pre-Columbian Gold Butterfly Appliqué. Thin sheet of gold with impressed design. Weight: .84 gr. Size: 2". Estimate Value $300 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 678		Pre-Columbian Golden Gauntlet Made From a Sheet of Low Carat Gold. Embossed with stylized faces, a frog and other circular decoration. Intact and choice condition. Weight: 33 gr. Size: 6 x 5½". Estimate Value $500 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,250
Lot 679		Five Pre-Columbian Colima Figures. Ranging from 5 to 7" in height. Estimate Value $250 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $275
Lot 680		Corinthian Column Krater With Two Panels, Ca. Middle Corinthian (600-575 BC). Decorated with three dancing komasts, two opposing spinxes. On handle plates: two birds. Repaired; minor restorations on handle. Height: 13 3/8 in. (34 cm). Estimate Value $10,000 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures; Superior Galleries Fine Antiquities Auction, Mar. 12, 1994, Lot 336. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $6,000
Lot 681		Beautiful Egyptian Pale Blue & Green Faience Ushabti, New Kingdom, 8½" Tall, Custom Presentation Base. Ushabti priest figure (26th - 30th Dynasty, ca. 664-342 B.C.) of typical slender form wearing a braided beard and striated tripartite wig and holding the pick, the hoe and seed-sack. Nine lines of hieroglyphic are inscribed with a text (Book of the Dead chapter 6, the 'shabti spell') detailing their obligations, the Egyptians ensured that shabti could be magically activated in the afterlife. Instructions by the deceased to answer for him should he be called upon to cultivate the fields, clear the irrigation channels or perform similar work. Usually from the later New Kingdom, the number of ushabti in a burial would be 365, one for each day of year. A magnificent example in superb condition free from repairs or faults. Custom mounted on near pyramidal, polished wood base. Figure 8½" (20cm) tall with, base 11" tall. Estimate Value $3,500 - UP View details and enlarged photos	Realized $5,250
Lot 682		Large Egyptian Bronze Ushabti Figure With Partial Painted Inlay Eyes, XXVI th Dynasty. On a black wooden base. Fine green and reddish-brown patina. Completely intact. Free from noticeable repair. Height: 10½". Estimate Value $3,000 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,875
Lot 683		Egyptian Pharonic Limestone Relief Carving, Ca Late Dynastic Period, 8th Century BC. Mounted on a black Lucite and wooden stand. Excellent condition, free from repairs. Fragment size: 6 x 6". Estimate Value $1,000 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,220
Lot 684		Large Group of Egyptian, Asian, African and Columbian Pieces. Twenty-two pieces including five Egyptian figures, three small Asian vessels, and four pots from the Philippines, the remainder being African and Columbian items. A real potpourri of ancient items. Estimate Value $800 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $906
Lot 685		Egyptian Alabaster Jar, Ca. 2nd Millenium BC. Flaired lip with a minor chip. Intact with some old repairs. Height: 6". Estimate Value $500 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 686		Egyptian Painted Wooden Figurine of an Oarsman From a Model Funerary Boat, ca Middle Kingdom, 2050-1786 BC. Figure is 5" high x 2¼". Seated on a 1 1/8" wooden block. Estimate Value $500 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $313
Lot 687		Collection of Ancient Judaean Terra Cotta Oil Lamps. Consists of 21 various Herodian thru Roman Period, 1st-2nd century CE, oil lamps. Each carefully collected over several decades and all in choice condition. Pour in some oil, insert a wick and ingnite - celebrate your own special Hanukkah! Estimate Value $500 - UP The Palm Desert Collection, acquired in Jerusalem in the 1970s-1990s. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $960
Lot 688		Egyptian Terracotta Figure of Baubo, Roman Period, ca. 150-200 AD. With signature elaborate headress finely detailed. Legs and arms missing. Overall, excellent quality. On a wooden base. Height: 5¼". Estimate Value $400 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $240
Lot 689		Cuneiform Terra Cotta Foundation Cone With Inscription. Lagash, ca. 2150 BC. Charles Ede #368. Intact and remarkably free of cracks and chips. Size: 60 mm x 35 mm. Estimate Value $400 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $600
Lot 690		Egyptian Pre-Dynastic Basalt Platter, 3rd Millenium BC. Minor chips on the edges. Remarkably intact. Diameter: 10". Weight: 6 lb. 8 oz. Estimate Value $300 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $525
Lot 691		Egypt Faience Bes Amulet. Late Period, Circa 700-300 BC. Pale green, matte surface faience, Janus-headed amulet of Bes, the Egyptian dwarf god who functioned primarily as a protector of mothers, children, and especially women during the treacherous process of childbirth. In this substantial figurine, designed to be worn as a pendant, the deity wears his typical feathered headdress and confrontational facial expression while grasping his pot belly and striking an akimbo stance. With his characteristically fierce attitude, this apotropaic divinity provokes the same disconcerting response today that he was intended to inspire at the time of his creation. Height: 2¾". Estimate Value $250 - UP Ex Goldberg's Ancient and World Coins Auction of October 29-30, 2009, lot 806; Acquired from Emile Saad of Alexandria in the 1970s. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 692		Etruscan Black-Figure Column Krater, Ca. 580 BC. Side A: Four warriors in combat, and a fallen warrior. Side B: Five warriors in combat. Rare. Height: 10¾ in. (33 cm). Diameter: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm). Ex Colombi Coll. Lugano (acquired 1950) TL test Daybreak 61A40. Estimate Value $15,000 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures; Superior Galleries Fine Antiquities Auction, Mar. 12, 1994, Lot 379. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $8,700
Lot 693		European Bronze Grooved Axe Head, ca. Medieval Age Period. Fine incised decoration. Fine green patina and excellent condition. On wooden stand. Length: 6¼". Estimate Value $300 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $192
Lot 694		Paestan Applied Red-Figure Hydria, Ca 340-330. Showing a draped female holding fillets and seated half-nude female holding mirror and fillet. Asteas/Python workshop. Height: 11" (27.9 cm.). Estimate Value $4,000 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,240
Lot 695		Greek Geometric Pottery Jug With Arch Handle, ca 7th Century BC. Vibrant bands of lines and zags; original polychrome coloring is mostly preserved. Remarkably fresh and intact. Height: 6½". Estimate Value $500 - UP Deaccessioned from Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $300
Lot 696		Greek: Two Ancient, High Karat Gold Adornments; Rare Roundel and Earring. Two fine, ancient, high karat pieces. First an impressive Thracian roundel ca. 1st Century AD of thin gold hammered into a design in the center that clearly reveals three quarters of a repoussed face, possibly a god, and intentionally fashioned to be a partial profile, surrounded by hammered patterned designs. Small loss at top where likely a loop existed to be sewn on a garment or worn with several others on a necklace. Roundel gleams and measures 37 mm in diameter, likely a bit flattened, but otherwise an absolute knockout. The other is a delicate earring consisting of a small hoop and a tiny roundel originally attached of of a repoussed side profile of a helmeted soldier, quite possibly Alexander The Great. Roundel and the loop measure 12 mm each, the roundel having a small bite at top where it used to dangle from the loop. Wonderful ancient pieces. Estimate Value $300 - UP The Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, NY Ex Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $384
Lot 697		Very Impressive Majapahit Empire (Eastern Java) High Karat Yellow Gold (Better Than 18 K) Goblet with Lid, 130 grams. The Majapahit Empire, an Indianized kingdom based in Eastern Java, flourished in the 12th and 16th centuries and was considered a Golden Age for Hindu empires in the history of Indonesia. Offered is this beautiful, stemmed, high-karat gold goblet with lid. Goblet weighs approximately 130 grams and boasts strikingly impressive repoussé work, most especially with the lid with floral motifs within starshaped designs to the side of goblet with soft geometric repoussé. Goblet stands with lid just at 5¾" by 3" in diameter. In excellent condition. Estimate Value $4,000 - UP Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,360
Lot 698		Striking Majapahit Gold Necklace of a Sea Turtle, Slide with Bobble Head, Barrel Weave Chain and Fruit Blossom Pendant Tips. The Majapahit Empire, an Indianized kingdom based in Eastern Java, which flourished in the 12th and 16th centuries and considered a Golden Age for Hindu empires in the history of Indonesia.This also marked a significant and impressive period in Javanese jewellery as seen in this remarkable Majapahit high-karat slide necklace of a sea turtle with a bobble head, that adjusts up and down, an outstanding barrel-weave patterned chain with each tip ending in mangosteen-like fruit tip pendants. Absolutely wearable, centuries-old art chain measures 46" long; slide works very well and the condition of the piece is outstanding. Necklace weighs 123 Grams. Estimate Value $3,000 - UP Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,080
Lot 699		Islamic Terracotta Jug 900 -1200 AD, Found in Jericho, With COA & Provenance. A fine Islamic terracotta jug with exceptional geometric design completely surrounding the body and handle. We note a couple of chips along the lip that appear recent and we note a supremely accomplished area of restoration which we did not note until under UV light. Jug is approximately 8 x 6 x 6" Comes with original COA from Barakat & Sons Antiquities Gallery which was located in the Jerusalem Plaza Hotel. Irrespective of the flaws, this piece displays beautifully and would be a fine addition to any collection. Estimate Value $350 - UP View details and enlarged photo	Realized $213
Lot 700		South Italian Gnathian Trefoil Oinochoe, Single Handle, ca. 340-320 BC. Geometric decoration arund neck, floral decoration around body. Intact and free from repairs. Very fine condition. Height: 4½". Estimate Value $300 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $200
Lot 701		Judaea: Ancient Holy Land Drinking or Oil Lamp Chalice. Ceramic Iron Age chalice ('aggan) ca. 1200-600 BC in good condition Chalice is intact, but there is a missing triangular piece at the base and other chips around the base, encrustrations, and surface scrapes and pits. Chalices were found in both ritual and normal household contexts. Consistent in appearance from the pottery found in and around Khirbet Qeiyafa. Dimensions: 6¼ x 8 x 8" and despite minor issues of condition, displays nicely. Estimate Value $250 - UP The Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, NY Ex Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 702		Fine Greco-Roman Marble Head of a Goddess, Possibly Tyche/Fortuna, ca 1st-2nd Century AD. Portrait of a goddess, her hair centrally parted and braided, with hair drawn and tied in a bun. She wears a cylindrical flat-top headdress, perhaps unfinished, or was finished in stucco and/or paint in antiquity which is now lost. The eyes, nose, and delicate smile make this marble bust wonderfully expressive. Fine crystalline white marble in excellent condition, free from repairs. On a black wooden base. Height: 9". Estimate Value $7,500 - UP Ex: Private purchase from Superior Galleries, ca. 1990s. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 703		Fine Roman Marble Head of a Young Female, Ca. 2nd Century AD, With Centrally Parted Hair. Expertly restored at neck and tip of nose. Ca. 18th century socle. Ex Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House. Probably acquired in 17th century. "Augusta Faustina Pii Filia" is engraved below. Base from a later period. Height: 5 in (17.8 cm w/base). Estimate Value $5,000 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures; Superior Galleries, Fine Antiquities Auction, March 12, 1994, Lot 147. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $3,250
Lot 704		Beautiful Roman Crystal Beads, Separated by Turquoise Faience and 18K Gold Beads. Ancient Roman necklace of large, clear crystal beads both round, tubular and rectangular, separated by small lovely turqouise faience enhanced dramatically by 4 tubular and 4 round 18K yellow gold beads, The beads are 11mm in diameter and the 4 tubular beads measure 17 x 7½ mm. Necklace is 18" long (modern strung). A beautiful and wearable piece of jewelry with elements dating back to the ancients. Estimate Value $800 - UP Museum of World Treasures. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $552
Lot 705		Roman Terracotta Sigilatta Skyphoi, Called "Roman Red-Gloss Ware" Ca. 1st Century AD. Intact. The body is decorated with a vine scroll of ivy leaves. Height: 2½ in. (6.4 cm). Estimate Value $500 - UP Had been on loan to the Museum of World Treasures; Superior Galleries, Fine Antiquities Auction, March 12, 1994, Lot 396. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $330
Lot 706		Roman Huge Unguentarium. Ca. 2nd-3rd century A.D. Height: 6¾". Long, graceful neck flaring at the lip. Clear pale green with areas of delicate opalized iridescence. Perfect condition. On a custom Lucite stand. Estimate Value $500 - UP Goldberg Family Collection. Ex June 1986, Superior Galleries Sale of the bankrupt assets of the International Diamond Corporation. The ancient Roman glass was acquired through Rafi Brown in the early 1980s. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 707		Greco-Roman High-Karat Gold Remnants From an Ancient Find. Includes a partial wreath, gold leaves, a ring, clasps and other small objects. Weight: 7.1 grams. Estimate Value $350 - UP Living Torah Museum. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $528
Lot 708		Roman Dark Green Glass Sprinkler Flask. Ca. 3rd to 4th century A.D. Height: 4". With pinched-out projections around body. Perfect condition as made! On a custom, clear Lucite stand. Estimate Value $300 - UP Goldberg Family Collection. Ex June 1986, Superior Galleries Sale of the bankrupt assets of the International Diamond Corporation. The ancient Roman glass was acquired through Rafi Brown in the early 1980s. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $312
Lot 709		Roman, Red Jasper Intaglio, Mercury 1st-2nd Century CE. The subject of Mercury was very popular with merchants and businessmen invoking the powers of the god to the wearer and a classic symbol for trust, trade and friendship. Intaglios not only were used to seal private documents but also for transactions of trade and business. This Roman intaglio of red jasper is in superb conditon with no damage or restoration. 12 mm x 9½ mm. Estimate Value $300 - UP The Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, NY Ex Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $180
Lot 710		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 711		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 712		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 713		Sassanian Bronze Ribbed Bowl Boasting a Fine Patina. A shallow bronze bowl ca. 6th-7th CE having a ribbed body, vertical rim and rich green patina. Bowl measures slightly less than 6¾" in diameter and 2" tall. No cracks, very slight chipping of the greenish patina otherwise nice. Estimate Value $250 - UP The Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, NY Ex Living Torah Museum, Brooklyn, New York. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold