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Auction Highlights:
Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
.jpg "Attic Red-Figure Bell Krater with Drunken Male Revellers Attributed to the Kadmos Painter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
.jpg "Roman Published Terracotta Oil Lamp with Fighting Gladiators")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
.jpg "Roman Marble Head of Hercules Wearing the Nemean Lion Skin")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "The Anglesey Romano-British Marble Head of a Celtic Warrior")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Decorated He who loves from the heart, gives with a good heart Posy Boxwood Comb")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Limoges Gilt Christ Crowned on the Cross")
.jpg "Medieval Gold Heraldic Signet Ring with Goat")
With slightly flared profile, carination and dimple base, painted frieze of ibexes to the sidewall. 142 grams, 80 mm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Squat in profile with everted rim, carination and basal ring; painted geometric design to sidewall. 155 grams, 60 mm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Biconvex body with broad mouth, impressed lines to the shoulder, painted panels of wavy lines below. 1.74 kg, 21 cm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Tubular figurine depicting a stylised female with hands clasped beneath the breasts, incised linear hem to the bell-shaped skirt, pinched facial features. 491 grams, 16.2 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Hemispherical with basal ring, painted design to inner face of geometric panels, an ibex and a bovine. 779 grams, 25.5 cm diameter
Acquired 1990s-2000s.
From the late David Gold (d.2015) collection of Indus Valley civilisation pottery. David Gold and his brother were famous for setting up the first clothes shop in Carnaby Street and dressed the famous in the swinging 1960s, making Carnaby Street famous.
Acquired 1990s-2000s.
From the late David Gold (d.2015) collection of Indus Valley civilisation pottery. David Gold and his brother were famous for setting up the first clothes shop in Carnaby Street and dressed the famous in the swinging 1960s, making Carnaby Street famous.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
The birds shown on emerald green background, the male bowing and puffing its feathers whilst the female is slowly advancing with its head turned towards the displaying male; a stamp and inscription in Arabic to the reverse. 15 grams, 23 cm
Acquired from the UK art market.
Private Scottish collection.
Acquired from the UK art market.
Private Scottish collection.
Squat jar with rounded underside and flared rim, painted wave to shoulder. 805 grams, 16 cm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
.jpg "Indus Valley Etched Orange Carnelian Necklace Bead Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Comprising polished beads in various sizes with etched geometric designs. 18.6 grams total, 3-20 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Nandagopal, P., ‘Decorated Carnelian Beads from the Indus Civilization Site of Dholavira (Great Rann of Kachchha, Gujarat)’ in Frenez, D., Jamison, G.M., Randall, W.L., Vidale, M., Meadow, R.H., Walking with the Unicorn Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia, Oxford, 2018, pp.475-485, figs.3,8,9.
Etched carnelian beads are characteristic of the Indus Valley culture and have been produced since the third millennium B.C. They are a typical product of the Harappa culture, but they are also attested in later millennia and produced elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The oldest specimens come from the Indus Valley and from Mesopotamia. A few specimens were found in the so-called royal cemetery of Ur, where they were identified in the excavation publication as coming from India.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Nandagopal, P., ‘Decorated Carnelian Beads from the Indus Civilization Site of Dholavira (Great Rann of Kachchha, Gujarat)’ in Frenez, D., Jamison, G.M., Randall, W.L., Vidale, M., Meadow, R.H., Walking with the Unicorn Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia, Oxford, 2018, pp.475-485, figs.3,8,9.
Etched carnelian beads are characteristic of the Indus Valley culture and have been produced since the third millennium B.C. They are a typical product of the Harappa culture, but they are also attested in later millennia and produced elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The oldest specimens come from the Indus Valley and from Mesopotamia. A few specimens were found in the so-called royal cemetery of Ur, where they were identified in the excavation publication as coming from India.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Biconvex in profile with narrow foot, painted segmented design to the sidewall. 146 grams, 94 mm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
See Satyawadi, S., Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
See Satyawadi, S., Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
D-shaped bifacial pendant with floral designs to both faces, panel of calligraphic text to obverse. 24.2 grams, 58 mm
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971.
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971.
A male and female pair modelled standing facing, wearing jewel-studded arm bangles, earrings, pendants and skin-tight trousers, the man holding a sword and small round shield, the woman breastfeeding an infant; each mounted on a custom-made display base. 1.55 kg total, 27-27.5 cm high including stand
Acquired in the 1960s.
Ex Italian collection.
Ex London gallery stock.
Acquired in the 1960s.
Ex Italian collection.
Ex London gallery stock.
With vertical sidewall, carinated lower body and basal ring, painted herringbone pattern to the sidewall. 276 grams, 76 mm high
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
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