Göta's World

Göta's World, legally Götan Maailma Oy, is a Helsinki gallery that sells antiquities, tribal art and curiosities. According to its About page it was established in 2011 and is run by Thomas Hamberg and Risto Ant-Wuorinen, and it offers Asian, Pre-Columbian, classical and tribal art together with appraisals and rentals³. A Finnish company record gives the registration date as 27 April 2011, with Hamberg as managing director and Ant-Wuorinen as a board member¹⁵. Atlas Obscura describes the shop as Hamberg's Helsinki "Wunderkammer", which began with vintage goods and curiosities and later added antiquities¹⁴.

The antiquities section of the website has a "Greek & Cypriot" category⁴. A search for "cypriot" on the site returned 23 items⁵. They include a Cypro-Geometric II-III Bichrome III plate with wishbone handles at EUR 2,250⁶, a Late Cypriot bilbil at EUR 750⁷, a Cypriot terracotta juglet at EUR 850¹⁰ and a Hellenistic marble relief fragment from Paphos at EUR 495⁸. A run of Cypro-Archaic terracotta horse, chariot and warrior fragments is priced between EUR 155 and 420, and several are said to come from Kourion and from the collection of Albert Fischer (1891-1956)^9,11.

The listings print provenance. Pieces are traced to Swedish, Danish or Belgian private collections with a stated period of acquisition, and several Cypro-Classical jugs and a chytra are described by the dealer as bought from the Cyprus Museum in 1979 with a Cyprus export licence number^1,2,12.