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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
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.jpg "Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis")
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
.jpg "Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds")
.jpg "Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull")
Armand Neven - Etudes d'Art Lamaïque et de l'Himalaya - Bruxelles, 1978, card coves; Marilyn Jenkins & Manuel Keene - Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, 1982, card cover (damaged); Lawrence Smith (ed.) = Ukiyoe: Images of Unknown Japan - London, 1988, card covers; Victoria & Albert Museum - Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art - London, 1970, card covers. 2.4 kg total, 24.5 x 18.5 - 30 x 21 cm
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
O.M. Dalton - London, 1912, hardback with cloth covers, 366 pp, 30 plates; usage wear. 1.6 kg, 25.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Hans Henning von der Osten - Chicago, 1934, hardback with cloth covers, 204 pp, 41 plates. 1.5 kg. 31.5 x 24 cm
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Adolf Heyden & Julius Lessing - Verlag von Paul Bette, Berlin, 1883 - title + 15 pp, 25 heavy card plates with glassine paper interleaves, half-calf binding with tooling, gilt titling to spine; edges and corners scuffed, small loss to spine, light water damage to bottom edge of papers. 9.5 kg, 61 x 47.5 cm
Ex central London gallery.
Ex central London gallery.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
With incised braided design forming diamond-shape hatching. 10.9 grams, 29 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector, collection no.055.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 28.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector, collection no.055.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 28.
Hemispherical in profile with broad discoid foot; raised from a single bronze sheet. 184 grams, 12 cm diameter
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Property of a London gentleman.
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Property of a London gentleman.
Modelled in the round, including a polished hound with inlaid eyes. 53 grams total, 27-50 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.
Columnar and tapering in form with rounded ends, reserved vertical rib and circle forming a 'phi' symbol. 3.52 kg, 34 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.
Cf. Christie's, New York, 8th June 2007, lot 59; and 5th June 2014, lot 51; and London, 6th July 2022, lot 55.
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.
Cf. Christie's, New York, 8th June 2007, lot 59; and 5th June 2014, lot 51; and London, 6th July 2022, lot 55.
Comprising beads in various materials including ceramic, lapis lazuli, glass, and stone. 61 grams total, 2-32 mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s.
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Restrung group of graduated annular trade beads in various materials. 23.9 grams, 62 cm long
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Standing with left front leg slightly bent, crested head, detailed muzzle, raised tail, loop to the back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 43 grams, 58 mm
with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Cf. Engel, N. et al., Bronzes du Luristan: Énigmes de l'Iran Ancien IIIe-Ier millénaire av.J-C., Paris, 2008, item 103; see also the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, accession number 72.45, for a similar example; Muscarella, O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, item 293, for type.
Pendants in the form of animals, mostly goats or mouflons, but also horses or other equids, are quite common among the corpus of the Luristan pendants.
with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Cf. Engel, N. et al., Bronzes du Luristan: Énigmes de l'Iran Ancien IIIe-Ier millénaire av.J-C., Paris, 2008, item 103; see also the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, accession number 72.45, for a similar example; Muscarella, O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, item 293, for type.
Pendants in the form of animals, mostly goats or mouflons, but also horses or other equids, are quite common among the corpus of the Luristan pendants.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Hollow-formed with voids and scroll detailing, ferrous shank. 52 grams, 75 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.
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