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PHOENIX The Greco-Roman world is covered in the booth at Phoenix Ancient Art, which is tricked out to look like the interior of the Pantheon in Rome. The central work in Phoenix’s booth is also a figurative sculpture: a svelte Aphrodite carved in marble from the 1st century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. whose arms were restored at some point, then removed for authenticity’s sake, which makes her look a bit like the Venus de Milo.

Phoenix Ancient Art, for instance, has a wall of Egyptian stone vessels, like a second dynasty (around 2,900 to 2,646 B.C.) diorite bowl formerly owned by Sheikh Ali (Abadiya), bought by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1903 and later deaccessioned.

Across the way, Phoenix Ancient Art rises to the occasion with a broad selection of figures and objects from Greece, Roman, Syria, Egypt and beyond, in glass, ceramic, bronze and stone.

(…) at Phoenix Ancient Art, a strikingly lifelike, third-century marble head of a Roman man who gazes upward with an expression of sleepy-eyed resignation.

"…while Phoenix Ancient Art, one of the leading dealers in rare antiquities, will present an amusing fourth-century bronze of a Gorgon sticking out her tongue."

The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show By KEN JOHNSON Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, at 67th Street Through Thursday Do you need a narwhal tusk? Well, then, hurry over to the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, where Hyland Granby Antiques, which specializes in maritime art and artifacts, is selling two […]