An Asmat drum with abstract incised and relief carving on the body; the handle with openwork carving in the form of a sequence of three birds and curvilinear forms possibly representing snakes.

An old Blackwater River stone boundary marker with carved sprit face.

Egyptian serpentine eroticon depicting a seated figure gazing forwards, both hands supporting a cylindrical vessel that rests on his oversized, erect phallus.

On Consignment

A pottery ushabti with hieroglyphic inscription in black pigment.

Egyptian faience Ushabti with details and hieroglyphs in a black glaze.

A Ming Dynasty sandstone architectural panel depicting an erotic scene.

A Steppe culture horse's cheek piece fashioned from antler.

A Chinese Neolithic stone mortar. Lovely naturalistic form carved form a river pebble, definite signs of extensive use.

An early Bactrian granite object; carved indentations for bronze handle insert; precise function unknown.

A Bactrian green basalt pestle or pounder.

A Bactrian hardstone amulet carved in the form of a tiger. Perforated for suspension.

A bronze comb decorated with raised lozenge designs.

A beautiful bronze hairpin, the finial with highly elaborate symmetrical openwork design.

Bactrian or Iranian aragonite finial from a hairpin, carved in the form of a poppy seed and with incised linear design.

A Bactrian black stone scabbard chape decorated with different coloured stone inlays (now mostly absent)