Antiquities

A diverse collection of historical antiquities crafted by human hands, spanning multiple cultures and eras.

Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero (64-79 CE)

A marble head from 64–79 CE, showing Emperor Vespasian’s features, reworked from a Nero portrait with altered hair and facial details.

A marble bust from 50–70 CE, depicting Claudia Octavia with intricate coiffure, carved with detailed hair and stola.

A marble figure from AD 100–200, depicting Apollo’s torso with kithara remnants, carved with detailed musculature.

A stone figure from the late 1000s, depicting Lokeshvara with Amitabha crown, carved from kaolinite with traces of pigment.

A ceramic kantharos from 470–460 BCE, shaped with dual faces of a satyr and an African, formed in red-figure style.

A stone figure from the 800s, depicting Buddha in Bhumisparsha Mudra, carved from chloritic schist with ficus leaves above.

A stone linga from the 600s–700s, depicting Shiva with a crescent moon, carved from chloritic schist with a third eye and matted hair.

A wooden figure from the 1400s, depicting Zenki with an axe, painted red with detailed carvings.

A wooden koma inu from the 1200s–1300s, depicting a guardian lion-dog, carved with traces of polychromy.

A wooden statue from the 1200s, depicting a Nio guardian with a fierce expression, carved from chestnut and cypress.

A wooden figure from the 1400s, depicting a vase-bearing Koki in bamboo attire, painted green with gesso and gilded accents.

An ivory carving from the early to mid-1800s, depicting a Tengu in yamabushi attire, shaped with a long nose and fine details.