Ceremonial

Items designed for rituals, celebrations, and sacred practices, spanning diverse cultures and eras. These artifacts, such as ornate vessels and symbolic tools, reveal the spiritual and communal traditions that shaped societies.

Japanese Sun Bodhisattva (Nikkō Bosatsu) sculpture, Heian period (c. 800 CE).

Sun Bodhisattva (794-1185 CE)

Antiquities Asia Japan Sculpture

Carved around 800 CE, this wooden figure from Japan shows a Bodhisattva cut from nutmeg-yew, lined with traces of color and gold.

Archaic Greek marble torso of a kouros, c. 550 BCE

Torso of a Kouros (550 BCE)

Antiquities Europe Greece Sculpture

Carved around 550 BCE, this marble kouros fragment from Greece shows a youthful male torso, smoothed with patterned details.

Hellenistic terracotta Leaning Lady figurine from Greece, 300–100 BCE

Leaning Lady Figurine (300 – 100 BCE)

Antiquities Europe Greece Sculpture

Molded between 300 and 100 BCE, this leaning lady terracotta piece from Greece tilts a topless woman with a himation and hat into a resting stance.

Figurine of Demeter With Pig (400s BCE)

Antiquities Europe Greece Sculpture

Crafted in the 400s BCE, this terracotta figure from Athens pairs Demeter with a pig, tied to fertility rites.