Ali Aboutaam

Geneva Gallery

The artworks showcased at Phoenix Ancient Art encompass more than 7,000 years of human development and creativity. The oldest artworks on display are from the Neolithic Period, dating back to the 6th Millennium B.C.E. The most recent works date from the 14th Century A.D.

Each work of art is displayed in a context of elegant simplicity in order to highlight each object in its own space without distracting from its own beauty and uniqueness. Collectors and admirers of art can much better focus their attention on each art object, giving it the attention it deserves and allowing for maximum concentration.

Greek Gold and Semiprecious Stone Jewelry Set of a Necklace and Matching Earrings

Objects on display at Phoenix Ancient Art are not only chosen for their special historical significance, but also for their beauty, aesthetic, and artistic value as well. Even more so, when an artifact is considered for display the first consideration is the object’s artistic appeal. Only after it is deemed worthy as an art object are the artwork’s other qualities considered, such as its age, culture of origin and historical value.

Each object testifies to the enormous craftsmanship, taste, and artistic nature of its civilization of origin, and brings our modern culture to a better understanding of our distant ancestors and the reality of their existence. All speak to us in a special way, from the divine sculptures, tasteful bronzes, delicate and rare glass, mosaics depicting mythological subjects, or exquisitely hand-crafted jewelry, they all bring us closer to the bygone cultures we owe so much about our own world to.

The latest effort from  Hicham and Ali  Aboutaam,brothers and co-owners of Phoenix Ancient Art, to make the world of collecting antiquities accessible to the widest possible range of people is their flagship web-site e-tiquities.

Opened for business as of May 1st, 2009, e-tiquities offers antiquities for sale or bidding some of the most beautiful, rare and historical artifacts in the most convenient way possible. From the comfort of your computer you can gaze at and admire some of the world’s most magnificent examples of art from as long ago as Neolithic times, around the 6th millennium B.C.E. and from as wide an area as the Mediterranean Basin spanning in the west from Spain and Portugal to the Indus Valley where modern Pakistan is now, in the east.

Prices range from $500 and can go as high as $25,000. Some of the ancient cultures represented by the objects in the virtual gallery are Greek, Roman, Byzantium, Islamic, and a large selection of others.