Publications
David Aaron 2025
2025
A masterfully statue carved from dark grey stone that mystified experts when it was offered for sale in a small local UK auction house in 2022. Its delicately carved features recall some of the finest crafstmanship of 26th Dynasty Egypt, positioning it alongside masterworks from important temples and now in major museums. However, outdated restoration practese left layers of dark paint, wax, and damage on the busy, histing its true antiquity. Through extensive provenance research and conservation work, the history of these damages and restorations was unveiled, revealing the sculpture's tumultuous journey through time.
David Aaron 2025
2025
A masterfully statue carved from dark grey stone that mystified experts when it was offered for sale in a small local UK auction house in 2022. Its delicately carved features recall some of the finest crafstmanship of 26th Dynasty Egypt, positioning it alongside masterworks from important temples and now in major museums. However, outdated restoration practese left layers of dark paint, wax, and damage on the busy, histing its true antiquity. Through extensive provenance research and conservation work, the history of these damages and restorations was unveiled, revealing the sculpture's tumultuous journey through time.
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David Aaron 2025
2024
Sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2013 with a limited provenance. It was not until a year later that conservators gently pried open the coffin for the first time in nearly 200 years, uncovering the golden-rayed, fully inscribed interior and a handwritten note from c.1834 documenting valuable, previously lost information. The ‘Forgotten Princess’, discovered in 1832 and documented by renowned early archaeologist Robert Hay in his field notebook which is now kept in the British Museum. The coffin of Sopdet-em-haawt is both exceptionally decorated and beautifully preserved, it is the only royal coffin ever to be offered for sale on the art market.
David Aaron 2025
2024
Sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2013 with a limited provenance. It was not until a year later that conservators gently pried open the coffin for the first time in nearly 200 years, uncovering the golden-rayed, fully inscribed interior and a handwritten note from c.1834 documenting valuable, previously lost information. The ‘Forgotten Princess’, discovered in 1832 and documented by renowned early archaeologist Robert Hay in his field notebook which is now kept in the British Museum. The coffin of Sopdet-em-haawt is both exceptionally decorated and beautifully preserved, it is the only royal coffin ever to be offered for sale on the art market.
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David Aaron 2024
2024
David Aaron's 2024 annual catalogue illustrates exceptional pieces from the gallery's inventory over the past year. This catalogue highlights exceptionally preserved pieces with thoroughly research provenance across Classical Greek and Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures and important pieces of natural history dating back 68 million years.
David Aaron 2024
2024
David Aaron's 2024 annual catalogue illustrates exceptional pieces from the gallery's inventory over the past year. This catalogue highlights exceptionally preserved pieces with thoroughly research provenance across Classical Greek and Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures and important pieces of natural history dating back 68 million years.
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David Aaron 2023
2023
Showcasing the gallery’s finest acquisitions over the past year, David Aaron’s 2023 catalogue features exceptionally preserved works from Classical, Egyptian, and Near Eastern antiquity, alongside natural history specimens dating back 154 million years - all supported by rigorous provenance research.
David Aaron 2023
2023
Showcasing the gallery’s finest acquisitions over the past year, David Aaron’s 2023 catalogue features exceptionally preserved works from Classical, Egyptian, and Near Eastern antiquity, alongside natural history specimens dating back 154 million years - all supported by rigorous provenance research.
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David Aaron 2022
2022
The 2022 David Aaron catalogue brings together masterworks of the ancient world and natural history. Spanning 68 million years of history, the publication highlights pristine Egyptian, Classical, Greek and Roman and Near Eastern antiquities alongside pieces of natural history, each fully vetted with impeccable provenance.
David Aaron 2022
2022
The 2022 David Aaron catalogue brings together masterworks of the ancient world and natural history. Spanning 68 million years of history, the publication highlights pristine Egyptian, Classical, Greek and Roman and Near Eastern antiquities alongside pieces of natural history, each fully vetted with impeccable provenance.
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David Aaron 2021
2021
David Aaron’s 2021 annual catalogue presents a curated selection of extraordinary acquisitions from the past year. Spanning several millennia, the collection highlights beautifully preserved ancient art across Classical Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern civilisations with highlights including an Egyptian Funerary model of a boat from the Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI-XII, 2087–1759 B.C.
David Aaron 2021
2021
David Aaron’s 2021 annual catalogue presents a curated selection of extraordinary acquisitions from the past year. Spanning several millennia, the collection highlights beautifully preserved ancient art across Classical Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern civilisations with highlights including an Egyptian Funerary model of a boat from the Middle Kingdom, Dynasty XI-XII, 2087–1759 B.C.
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David Aaron 2020
2020
David Aaron’s 2020 annual catalogue illustrates the breadth of the gallery’s recent inventory, bridging millennia of human craftsmanship with deep history. The publication features meticulously researched and preserved antiquities from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and East Asian cultures.
David Aaron 2020
2020
David Aaron’s 2020 annual catalogue illustrates the breadth of the gallery’s recent inventory, bridging millennia of human craftsmanship with deep history. The publication features meticulously researched and preserved antiquities from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and East Asian cultures.
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David Aaron 2019
2019
Establishing provenance is an essential element of our responsibility as a gallery specialising in ancient art. The provenance affirms the legitimacy of an object and also helps to chronicle the unique journey each object has taken. The twenty-four objects assembled in David Aaron’s 2018-19 catalogue showcase a selection of beautiful and important artworks from various cultures and also pay homage to the previous custodians of the objects. These pieces help tell the story of these extraordinary people and their love of ancient art.
David Aaron 2019
2019
Establishing provenance is an essential element of our responsibility as a gallery specialising in ancient art. The provenance affirms the legitimacy of an object and also helps to chronicle the unique journey each object has taken. The twenty-four objects assembled in David Aaron’s 2018-19 catalogue showcase a selection of beautiful and important artworks from various cultures and also pay homage to the previous custodians of the objects. These pieces help tell the story of these extraordinary people and their love of ancient art.
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David Aaron 2017
2017
David Aaron maintains a vigorous level of due diligence in establishing the provenance of every piece, and every work of art is sold with an unconditional guarantee of authenticity. The objects selected for inclusion in this catalogue are testimony to David Aaron’s ongoing dedication to handling beautiful, thought-provoking and engaging works of art. This catalogue includes objects from many notable private collections, including those of Flora Whitney Miller, George Sand, Mariane Maspero, Pedro Valero, Barbier-Mueller, James Bomford, Namio Egami and The Reichardt Collection, amongst others.
David Aaron 2017
2017
David Aaron maintains a vigorous level of due diligence in establishing the provenance of every piece, and every work of art is sold with an unconditional guarantee of authenticity. The objects selected for inclusion in this catalogue are testimony to David Aaron’s ongoing dedication to handling beautiful, thought-provoking and engaging works of art. This catalogue includes objects from many notable private collections, including those of Flora Whitney Miller, George Sand, Mariane Maspero, Pedro Valero, Barbier-Mueller, James Bomford, Namio Egami and The Reichardt Collection, amongst others.
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