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AFRICA - Two antique bronze coin bracelets. Length 8cm.

AFRICA Lot comprising a coconut bowl and two wooden sculptures of women. 12-28 cm

AFRICA Wooden lot, including a club and a cane. 59-77 cm (restoration to the club)

AFGANISTAN Hanging cauldron in riveted metal. Height including chain 41 cm.

Exotic wood set including a pipe element and a graduated fabric ruler. From 7 to 37 cm (worn).

Set of two metal, wood and string musical instruments. From 18 to 22 cm. Metal bells are included.

CENTRAL AMERICA Set of two hard stone sculptures of figures. 7-22 cm

Metal and rope gourd. Height 17 cm (oxidation, bumps).

AFRICA Decorative wooden mask. 42 x 21 cm (missing, dents)

Crucifix in patinated plaster, 40x21cm. Slight chips and dirt.

Lot comprising a plaster portrait of Christ (8cm), 8 medals and 13 rosaries in wood, resin, metal and mother-of-pearl, missing and worn.

Wood and metal lot including a crucifix and a plaque depicting the Virgin Mary. From 25 to 34cm.

Resin, wood and metal lot including rosaries and necklaces, worn.

Lot including a crucifix, a rosary and various medals.

Set of 2 modern icons in painted wood with saints. (one printed). From 19 to 20cm (wear to gilding and slight missing).

Set of two silver egg cups. Not figured. Minerva. Weight : 71 g

Silver sugar tongs. Minerva. Weight : 40 g Metal tongs included.

Small polychrome earthenware stoup decorated with a Virgin and Child. Inscription AM in the upper center. 20th century Portuguese work. H. 24 cm

IRAN, QAJAR Siliceous ceramic shoulder vase with blue camaieu decoration of figures. H. 20 (Chips) A Chinese brown enameled porcelain covered vase decorated with flowers in cartouches. H. 28

ARO in Saint-Aignan (Morbihan) for Annie ROGER (1936-2014) Stoneware table garbage can, gray and blue cover, decorated with stylized tree motifs. Signed under the base. Attached are a small stoneware bowl by Annie BRAUT (b. 1959), a Quimper earthenware bowl, a plate by J. LECORRE, KERALUE Près Quimper, a Qajar-style trivet, and a black and gold glazed ceramic candle jar.

PAPOUASIE NOUVELLE-GUINEE - Bone dagger with pommel decorated with a human head. Molded in clay, it is adorned with hair, shells, fiber pendants and enhanced with polychrome. Base. H. 38 cm. Accents.

COTE D'IVOIRE - Dan style mask. Wood. 20th century. Base. Total height: 30.5 cm. Restoration. Provenance : Galerie Alain Lecomte, Paris.

République Démocratique du Congo - Yaka hand drum in monoxyle wood. The handle is carved with a beautifully styled anthropomorphic head. Beneath a high crested headdress, the facial features are fine. Patina attesting to prolonged use. Base. Total height: 46 cm. Wear and cracks. Provenance : Galerie Alain Lecomte, Paris.

Mon 13 May

WILFREDO LAM (Sagua La Grande, Cuba, 1902 - Paris, 1982). Untitled, 1966. Ink on paper. Attached certificate issued by the Wilfredo Lam Foundation. Signed in the upper left corner. Dated and located (Paris), in the lower right area. Measurements: 29,5 x 40 cm; 48 x 59 cm (frame). In this work one can appreciate the artistic language developed by Wilfredo Lam, translated into a series of characters and aesthetic elements, which became his own iconography. During the forties Lam began an artistic activity based on the roots of a people that, in the painter's opinion, should recover its dignity. In this way, the autochthonous references were fused with the formal language learned in Europe to produce works where the characters of the Yoruba pantheon that would populate a large part of his later production already appeared. Wifredo Lam was trained in Havana, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts. He made his individual debut in the early 1920s, with an exhibition at the Salon of the Association of Painters and Sculptors of the Cuban capital. In 1923 he moved to Madrid, with a scholarship from the City Council of Sagua La Grande, where he continued his training in the workshop of Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, director of the Prado Museum and recognized for having been Salvador Dali's teacher. At the same time, he attended the Academia Libre del Pasaje de la Alhambra, and visited the Prado, where his preferences leaned towards the works of Bosch, Brueghel and Goya. Little by little, his painting assumed a modern language that combined a geometrical structure with a certain surrealist vein. In 1938 he traveled to Paris, with a letter of recommendation for Picasso written by Manolo Hugué. Lam, who had had the opportunity to attend the Picasso exhibition held in Madrid in 1936, defined this experience as "a shock". In 1939 he made his first personal exhibition in Paris, with Pierre Loeb. During World War II Lam remained in the Caribbean, in contact with representatives of the avant-garde such as Masson and Breton, who, fascinated by the Cuban's pictorial work, asked him to illustrate his poem "Fata Morgana" (1940). Back in Cuba, Lam began an artistic activity based on the roots of a people who, in the painter's opinion, had to recover their dignity. In this way, the autochthonous references were fused with the formal language learned in Europe to produce works where the characters of the Yoruba pantheon that would populate a large part of his later production already appeared. In the second half of the forties, Lam alternated his residence between Cuba, New York and Paris, where he settled in 1952. His international prestige grew progressively, and he held periodic exhibitions in galleries such as the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York. He traveled intensely during the following years and, in 1960, he settled in Albisola Mare, on the Italian coast. In 1961 he received the Guggenheim International Prize, and between 1966 and 1967 multiple retrospectives of his work were held at the Kunsthalle in Basel, the Kestner-Gessellschaft in Hannover, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Wifredo Lam is represented at the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Tate Gallery in London and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, among others. Attached is a certificate issued by the Wilfredo Lam Foundation.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Nicoya. Anthropomorphic ocarina featuring a small nude figure with raised arms. Terracotta. H. 11cm. Bell. Former French collection. As is (one arm restored). 12th - 15th century A.D.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Pre-Columbian. Valdivia. Three Valdivia idol heads. Ceramic with red slip. H. 3, 4 and 4 cm. Elegantly pedestaled. Among the oldest human representations in ceramic on the American continent. Former French collection. As is (visible gaps). Neolithic culture of Valdivia, periods B and C (2nd - 3rd millennium B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Andean region. Idol of Pacha Mama, founding mother goddess of Andean civilization, in her androgynous form. Bronze. L. 7.3cm excluding base. Fertility offering to Mother Earth. Representation of the primordial, Edenic human, "Universal Man" in his "Adam-Eve" form. In pre-Inca tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Crocodile statuette. Tumbaga alloy. L. 10cm. Approx. 86g. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Master of the primordial waters, father of the earth, lord of the ineluctable forces of death and rebirth, symbol of occult knowledge, the shamanic animal par excellence. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Chimera frog with feline head and snake-head tail with bifid tongue, ritual ornament. Tumbaga alloy. L. 9cm. Approx. 79.7g. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Amphibian, mammal and reptile merge in the perpetual animal metamorphoses of Kogi mythology. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Statuette of a medicine woman, shaman with snake scepters, symbols of vital energy. Tumbaga alloy. H. 12cm. Approx. 204g. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Statuette of a seated shaman in ophidian transformation, his hands metamorphosed into snakes. Tumbaga alloy. H. 12.5cm. Approx. 207g. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Statuette of an ape-man shaman with a high headdress and 9 spirals, seated on a stool with an animal head. H. 12cm. Approx. 99.5g. Tumbaga alloy. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Suspension rings. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Colombia. Statuette of a female shaman seated on a stool holding two bird scepters. Tumbaga alloy. H. 8.5cm. Approx. 145g. Presumed copper-gold alloy. Composition undetermined. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Kogi / Tayrona tradition

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Magnificent experimental flint knife. L. 20.5cm. Black flint from the Cher valley, west-central France. Deer antler handle. Very elaborate replica of a late Neolithic knife.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Set of two objects. Elegant experimental biface. Violet Fontmaure jasper. L. 8.5cm. Very fine replica of a Mousterian biface in a prestigious material. A period Mousterian jasper nucleus from the same source is attached.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Saharan Middle Paleolithic. Rare beige jasper biface with aeolian patina. 50,000 years old. L. 8.5cm. Former French collection of A. and L. Carion. Great sea of sand. Egyptian Sahara.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Early Saharan Palaeolithic. Two lanceolate bifaces. 400,000 years old. Quartzite. L. 15 and 19cm. As is (tips reglued).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Egyptian Middle Paleolithic. Set of two magnificent nuclei and three retouched blades. 50,000 years old. Flint with characteristic caramel patina. L. max. 13cm. Former French collection. Provenance public sale Drouot Euvrard et Fabre. Ancient Nile terraces.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Saharan Neolithic. Four prehistoric micro-tools. Approximately 10,000 years old. Rare retouched blades of gem-quality eolian Libyan glass. Max. length 5 cm. Former A. and L. Carion French collection. Oligocene (28 million years) impact glass (Libyan glass). Pure silica sand vitrified by the disintegration of a meteorite (chondrite dust inclusions). Great sea of sand. Egyptian Sahara.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Saharan Neolithic. Attractive circular "poucier" scraper with aeolian patina. Translucent beige chalcedony or flint. Diam. 5cm. Former French collection of A. and L. Carion. Great sea of sand. Egyptian Sahara.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Prehistory. Neolithic. Two rare hematite votive polished axes. 10,000 years old. L. 6.5 and 8cm. Mirror polished, razor sharp. Prestigious objects in a heavy, very hard, rare and precious material. Former French collection.

Mon 13 May

Archaeology]. Protohistory. Bronze axe with fragmentary socket. L. 6.5cm. As is (sawed-off edge). Former French collection. Provenance public sale Drouot Beaussant Lefèvre. France, Late Bronze Age. A Near-Eastern bronze axe with socket and flamed decoration in relief. L. 11.5 cm.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Fine statuette of Isis lactans. Amulet. Soapstone or other. H. 3.2cm. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Djed pillar, amulet. Powerful protective talisman. Schist or other hard stone. L. 4.5cm. Byblos tree and backbone of the God, the great Osirian symbol. The ancient hieroglyph for stability, duration, eternity, word, resurrection, recovery. Old French collection. New Kingdom to Late Period (1580 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Oudjat eye inscribed in a rectangle, amulet. Blue and black glazed earthenware. L. 2.2cm. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Oudjat eye amulet. Black speckled hardstone, very finely engraved. L. 2cm. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Amulet of the god Bes. Frit. L. 2cm. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Rare amulet of the god Bès Panthée, universal protective talisman. Dark green glazed earthenware. H. 3.2cm excluding base. Body of the dwarf god protector of the hearth, head of the ram Amon and plumage of the falcon Horus. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Amulet of the hippopotamus goddess Thoueris. Frit. L. 2..6cm. Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Rare prophylactic amulet with two crocodiles, protective talisman of the god Sobek, lord of Chédyt/Crocodilopolis. Frit. L. 2cm. As is (gaps). Former French collection. Late Period (664 - 323 B.C.).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Roman Egypt. Headless bust of the god Harpocrates. Terracotta. H. 6cm. Alexandria. 1st - 3rd century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Roman Egypt. Head of the god Bes. Terracotta. H. 6cm. The very popular dwarf god of good humor, bearded, shaggy, grimacing. Alexandria. 1st - 3rd century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Large Lapis lazuli scarab. L. 10.7cm. 540g. Egyptian sacred stone par excellence, highly sought after in the New Kingdom, particularly for scarabs. Lapis lazuli symbolized the supernatural life force of the hair of the gods. The same force that animates primordial water and the Douat, the world of the Afterlife, represented on the ceilings of burial chambers as the deep-blue celestial vault dotted with golden stars. New Empire style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Lovely translucent honey alabaster scarab. L. 3.4cm. Longitudinal drilling. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Fragment of a relief with a woman's profile, finely carved and painted. Limestone. L. 11.5cm. 18th dynasty style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Amulet with a trained cobra of the goddess Ouadjet. L. 3.7cm. Frit or other. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Statuette of the god Ptah. Turquoise glazed earthenware. L. 10.4cm. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Large oushebti inscribed with style. Frit or other. L. 18cm. 9 registers of hieroglyphs on the ventral column.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Oushebti inscribed with style. L. 10.2cm. Turquoise glazed earthenware. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Terracotta statuette of the god Osiris. H 13 cm. Shown in mummiform form as an oushebti. Ventral column of hieroglyphs. As is (bumps, old restoration). Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Large Eye Oudjat amulet. Polychrome frit or other. L. 6.5cm. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Amulet of the cat goddess Bastet suckling her young. Frit or other. L. 4.5cm. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Head of an Amarna princess. Bronze. H. 12cm. Elegantly mounted on wood. 18th dynasty style, reign of Akhenaton. Former French collection.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Statuette of the cat goddess Bastet. Bronze. L. 8cm. Black marble base. Former French collection. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Large inscribed oushebti. Green earthenware or other. L. 19cm. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Oushebti inscribed with style. Frit or other. L. 7.8cm. Fine hieroglyphs on ventral and dorsal pillars. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Mummiform bronze statuette of the god Osiris. L. 8.5cm. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Isiac oil lamp. Grey terracotta. L 10.5cm. The mysteries of Isis, which originated in Egypt in Greco-Roman times, traveled with the Roman legionaries throughout the ancient world, and were transformed into rituals in certain secret societies in the Middle Ages. As is (handle incomplete). Ptolemaic style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Inscribed kohl bottle with flattened body. Sky-blue glazed earthenware. H. 10 cm. Three hieroglyphic texts finely engraved on both sides of the bottle and around its rim. Earthy inlays. Undated. Ptolemaic tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Egypt. Amulet depicting the goddess Heqet in the form of a frog. Blue enameled frit or other. L. 4.8cm. H 3.8cm. Protector of women in childbirth, Heqet represents life. In pyramid texts, she accompanies the king on his celestial ascent. Low Period style.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Rome. Intaglio with the she-wolf of Rome. L. 20.2mm. Red carnelian agate. 19th century A.D. Remus and Romulus suckled by the Lupa romana. As is (tiny visible chip).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Greco-Roman art. Votive head of a woman with a bun. Terracotta. H. 5.5cm. Elegantly pedestaled. Former French Alcide Teynac collection. 5th c. BC / 2nd c. AD

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Roman art. Balsamaire with high neck and pyriform body. Iridescent glass. H 11.5 cm. 2nd - 4th century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Rome. Lot of 10 decorated shards of sigillated ceramics. Orange sigillated terracotta. Former French collection. Gallo-Roman period. 2nd century A.D.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Eastern Mediterranean. Large antique open bracelet in bronze with smooth brown patina. Diameter 9.5 cm. Elegantly mounted. The flattened ends evoke snake heads. 1st millennium B.C.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Byzantine art. Rare Byzantine seal impression in terracotta depicting Saint Symeon the Stylite. Diam. 3cm. Antique pious image brought back by pilgrims from the Holy Places. Two pilgrims and a ladder are clearly seen next to the column at the top of which stands the famous 5th-century ascetic, crowned by two angels. Provenance: Rouillac Vendôme public sale. Appraisal by Cabinet Caillou. Former French collection: Paul Gaudin (1858 - 1921), archaeological engineer, donor of the Louvre. Ref bibliographique J.-P. Sodini " Terre sainte, Martyria d'Orient " Journal des savants, 2011. Near East. Circa 6th - 10th century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Byzantine art. Rare decahedron-shaped bronze weight, irregular polyhedron with ten facets and ocelli decoration. L. 15mm. 14.6g. Half-ounce weight. Possible evocation of the Neo-Platonic decade, the Pythagorean Tetractys. Byzantium. Circa 6th - 14th century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Byzantine art. Rare bronze barrel-shaped weight with twelve facets. L. 19.35m. 29.15g. One-ounce weight. Possible evocation of the neo-Platonic dodecahedron. Byzantium. Circa 6th - 14th century.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Statuette of the god Mars in Etruscan style. Bronze. L. 10.5cm. Etruria.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Rome. God Mars, relief sculpture on a hard stone pebble. L. 7.7cm. Provenance public sale Rouillac Vendôme. Former French collection of the painter Jean Burkhalter (1895 - 1982). Roman style. 19th century or earlier.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Etruscan-Corinthian vase. Olpe with pyriform body showing Hercules lifting the giant Antaeus. Black-figured ceramic H. 26cm. According to legend, the giant was invincible as long as he was in contact with his mother Earth. Hercules could only carry him away by lifting him.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Numismatics. Greece. Three coins of Alexander the Great. Silver or alloy. D. 2.6cm. 15.7, 14.8, 12.5 g. Undated. Former collection of French archaeologist Paul Gaudin (1858 - 1921).

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. East. Mesopotamia. Cuneiform tablet. Beige terracotta. L. 3.9 x 3.7 x 1.7cm. Undated. In the Neo-Sumerian tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. East. Mesopotamia. Cuneiform tablet. Beige terracotta. L. 5.2 x 4.3 x 2cm. Undated. In the Neo-Sumerian tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Ancient Phoenician art. Rare translucent water-green Phoenician glass globule. L. 6cm. 138g. Interesting remnant of an ancient glass workshop. Indication of origin "Tyr 4-73". Circa 7th century B.C.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Eastern Mediterranean. Alabastron in black glass paste. H. 6cm. Decoration covering white, yellow, cream and red festoons. Undated. Phoenician tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Eastern Mediterranean. Alabastron in emerald glass paste. H. 9cm. Mask and chevron decoration in relief. Undated. Phoenician tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Eastern Mediterranean. Alabastron in red glass paste. H. 14cm. Decoration covering three birds and yellow and blue festoons. Undated. Phoenician tradition.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Central Asia. Nice naviform oil lamp carved in Bactrian blue stone. Lustrous chlorite with a beautiful old patina. L. 10.5 cm. 410g. Provenance: former Cypriot collection. As is (visible gaps). In the tradition of the 2nd millennium BC. Possibly period.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Central Asia. Bactrian-type idol in blue stone, wearing kaunakes. Lapis lazuli or sodalite. H 8cm. In two parts, removable head. In the tradition of the 2nd millennium B.C.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Indus. Idol of fertility. Earthenware. L. 7 cm. As is (visible gaps, restorations). Ancient northwestern India. Style of the 1st millennium B.C.

Mon 13 May

[Archaeology]. Orient. Anatolian-type triple Kernos vase with chevron decoration. Grey terra cotta. L 15cm. H 11cm. Three small pots with rounded bottoms joined by the belly and topped by a basket handle. In the Early Bronze Age tradition of southern Anatolia (2500-2700 B.C.). Possibly period, subject to thermoluminescence. As is (restoration). Provenance public sale Troyes. For a similar object, see Louvre Antiquités Orientales no. 1361 bis.

Mon 13 May

Archaeology]. Middle East. Bird idol bust. Beige terracotta with applied decoration. L. 11cm. As is (visible gaps). Euphrates Valley. Undated. In the tradition of the 2nd millennium BC. Middle Bronze Age style.