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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
.jpg "Hellenistic Gold Earrings with Lapis and Mother of Pearl")
.jpg "Hellenistic Terracotta Head of a Youth")
.jpg "Neo-Assyrian Bronze Horse Trapping with Eagle-Headed God Nisroch and Winged Supernatural Figures")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
.jpg "Bronze Age Gold Torc-Shaped Bracelet")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
With saddle-stitched binding, manuscript blocks of Arabic-script black-ink text, small heading text; several blank pages; probably from India. 38 grams, 15 x 10.5 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Comprising sheet-gold beads and decorative elements, including: tubular beads, repoussé roundel and diadem fragment; beads with filigree decoration, earring with twisted hoop and discoid plaque with granules and shaped mounts. 6.17 grams total, 6-37 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Mainly comprising sheet-gold beads and decorative elements, including double tubular beads, domes, lotiform ornaments, a spherical bead with spool-shaped and filigree ornament, together with other types. 6.45 grams total, 8-30 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
With incised frieze of a seated figure in a tiered garment and a standing figure in floor-length garment and conical headgear, second figure behind him in a fringed robe, two columns of cuneiform text to the rear: Shuni-il(DINGIR) royal bailiff; chipped. 6.62 grams, 26 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.11.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 98, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.11.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 98, for type.
Steatite or talc D-section tablet with cuneiform text to the rounded face. 8.18 grams, 37 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector, collection no.084.
London collection, 2016.
See Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, for discussion.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector, collection no.084.
London collection, 2016.
See Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, for discussion.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
A kneeling bowman among fronds drawing his bow towards an advancing bull. 4.4 grams, 20 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.044.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 150, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.044.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 150, for type.
Each formed of a round-section balustered bar. 109 grams total, 76-79 mm
Ex old English collection.
London art market, 1980s.
Ex old English collection.
London art market, 1980s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
With incised frieze of a seated figure with hand extended to a figure in floor-length pleated garment, second figure behind him in a fringed robe, blank panel to the rear. 5.92 grams, 20 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.05.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 97, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.05.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 97, for type.
Comprising small vessels including a miniature plate. 104 grams total, 30-40 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Barrel-bodied with stepped shoulder, everted rim, tapering U-section spout and raised foot with notches; decorated with circumferential grooves separating bands of incised geometric ornament. 513 grams, 20 cm wide
Ex late Japanese private collection, 1970s-2015.
Ex Ancient Art, London, UK.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Ancient Art, London N14.
Ex late Japanese private collection, 1970s-2015.
Ex Ancient Art, London, UK.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Ancient Art, London N14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
With incised frieze depicting two leaping lions attacking antelopes. 8.7 grams, 26 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.013.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 715, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.013.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 715, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Each polished and pierced for suspension; including two flat-section, cartouche-shaped pendant plaques and three octagonal-section bars with conical terminals. 127 grams total, 54-71 mm
London collection since the 1980s.
Property of a Canadian family.
London collection since the 1980s.
Property of a Canadian family.
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