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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")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Graduated group of tubular, annular, biconvex and other beads with fusiform bead centrepiece. 26 grams, 33.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
.jpg "Holy Land Pottery Dipper Cup")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Round-bottomed with strap handle and thumb-spur. 209 grams, 90 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.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
With globular body and square-section neck, loop handle to shoulder and white linear ornament. 200 grams, 10 cm
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
With thirteen lines of Naskh script text to each side, red interlinear diacritics, rosettes, and a header bar; reinforced at one edge. 5.94 grams, 21 x 34.5 cm
Ex Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
Ex Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
The menorah design impressed to one face; impression of textile to the reverse. 3.9 grams, 13 mm
Collected from 1969-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
Collected from 1969-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
Comprising wheel-made buff clay oil lamps with classic 'pinched' nozzle and rounded bottoms; repaired. 323 grams total, 75-88 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Bussiere & Rivel, Lampes Antiques de Méditerranée, Oxford, 2012, p. 52, nos.3-4.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Cf. Bussiere & Rivel, Lampes Antiques de Méditerranée, Oxford, 2012, p. 52, nos.3-4.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Of lentoid form with u-section medial channel incorporating three suspension lugs, short spout with rounded rim, central raised ring to the upper face decorated with a stylised star, the body with concentric roundels. 1.4 kg, 26 cm wide
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Plano-convex in profile, oval in plan with facial detailing to the knop finial, underside with incuse tree motifs. 3.81 grams, 21 mm
From a London, UK, collection formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection number 2921.
Academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s (collection number on the packet in Professor Lambert's hand.
From a London, UK, collection formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection number 2921.
Academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s (collection number on the packet in Professor Lambert's hand.
Modelled in the round as a leaping horse with its forelegs tucked under the body; hollow to the reverse with raised collar and fixing holes. 188 grams, 11 cm
with Atigh Gallery, UK.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 23 February 1984.
with Atigh Gallery, UK.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 23 February 1984.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
With carinated profile, rounded underside and basal ring; scooped shoulder and flared rim to the mouth with stepped contour, rim chipped. 12.35 kg, 39 cm
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Graduated group of oblate, cuboid, annular and other beads with barrel-shaped centrepiece. 46 grams total, 51 cm long
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising two pillow-shaped tablets with cuneiform text; another restored from fragments; one irregular circular fragment. 202 grams total, 40-69 mm
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992.
Thence by descent to family members.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992.
Thence by descent to family members.
Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
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