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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Eastern Roman Bust of the Daughter of Aqima")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
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.jpg "Massive Stone Age British Bifacial Lanceolate Flint Handaxe")
.jpg "Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Three-Dimensional Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Carinated in form with a rounded shoulder and short everted neck, two hemispherical juglets to the shoulder with pierced bases and strap handles below, one independent loop handle to the shoulder; painted black decoration to the upper body including clusters of vertical lines and vertical bands alternating with zig-zagging. 3.25 kg, 30 cm wide
London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
With flat base; old collector's ticket with legend 'MB34/7 / 1 ½ shekels / 12.6 g- / Bronze'. 12.5 grams, 24 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Restrung; composed of small pale stone or shell smoothed cylinder beads of various shades and types. 12.1 grams, 66 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Broad bulbous body with rounded underside, trumpet-shaped neck with carinated chamfered rim, strap handle, curved spout with supporting strap, decorated as beast-head with applied pellet eyes; circumferential painted ornament including figural and animal panel, bird motif and various coloured bands; repaired. 2.4 kg, 26.5 cm
Ex Rabi Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK.
Ex private collection.
Ex Rabi Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK.
Ex private collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Comprising a round-section stem with rounded point, possibly a probe; substantial finial formed as two resting antelopes with emphasised heads, one devoid of horns. 69.2 grams, 18 cm
From a UK private collection, before 1980.
From a UK private collection, before 1980.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Composed of a bowl with convex wall, everted rim and splayed foot; painted with a frieze of black and crimson geometric motifs to the exterior; base repaired. 483 grams, 13 cm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Irregular carved stone seal with frieze depicting a standing human figure with raised arms, two long-necked quadrupeds (bulls?) and a frond or bush; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 10.9 grams, 30 mm
From a Cotswold, UK, collection, item no.3; as seen and catalogued by the late Professor Wilfrid George Lambert pre 1990.
W.G. Lambert is the late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
From a Cotswold, UK, collection, item no.3; as seen and catalogued by the late Professor Wilfrid George Lambert pre 1990.
W.G. Lambert is the late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Of biconical form with flared mouth, two small loop handles to the shoulder; rim chipped. 332 grams, 12.2 cm high
Ex London, UK, collection, 1988.
Ex London, UK, collection, 1988.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Restrung; composed of beads of various shapes and shades of cream, light blue and grey. 10.1 grams, 24 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Hussein, M.M., Altaweel, M., Gibson, McGuire, Nimrud The Queen’s Tombs, Baghdad-Chicago, 2016, pl.163, lett.f, and 164, lett.b, for similar bead necklaces made of a mixture of stones and glass, included faience.
Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Hussein, M.M., Altaweel, M., Gibson, McGuire, Nimrud The Queen’s Tombs, Baghdad-Chicago, 2016, pl.163, lett.f, and 164, lett.b, for similar bead necklaces made of a mixture of stones and glass, included faience.
Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: two large lozenge-shaped carnelian beads; a cylindrical lapis lazuli bead; a later oblate agate bead; two roughly oblate carnelian beads; a teardrop-shaped unpierced amber specimen; and three later oblate beads in blue glass. 17.8 grams total, 8-23 mm
UK private collection formed 1970s-1990s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
UK private collection formed 1970s-1990s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
Rectangular paper leaf with a block of text to each side in nastaliq script, black ink with red ink captions and diacritics; mounted in a bifacial glazed panel. 213 grams, 18 cm
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Important North West London collection.
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Important North West London collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
With frieze of running quadrupeds in a landscape. 14.4 grams, 19 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, items 12, 13, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, items 12, 13, for type.
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