With slender stem and trumpet-shaped foot, mammiform bowl with raised collar beneath the rim. 527 grams, 26.5 cm



From the collection of a gentleman, 1988-2000s.

The distal section of a small pillow-shaped tablet with impressed text on both sides. 27 grams, 36 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.

Comprising: hero with spear flanked by animals; gryphon fleeing with objects in the field; zigzag on a barred field; starburst and plant motifs; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. 15.7 grams total, 15.5-27.3 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Frieze with horizontal line of chevrons above an aquatic scene with fish and a crab, objects in the field; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 0.78 grams, 17.52 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Framed and glazed and displaying polychrome figural scenes bordered by flowering plants and panels of script: one depicting a tea(?) ceremony set in a landscape featuring blossoming trees and birds; a prince or other figure seated on a bolster, in a landscape featuring a brook and blossoming trees, surrounded by attendants. 932 grams total, 31 x 21.5 cm each



Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990.

Comprising: frieze of a standing figure with rearing animals; winged beast facing a figure with pelletted headdress holding the hind leg of an ibex; figure with a staff facing towards a fleeing ibex, gryphon to his rear; row of running ibexes; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. 12.9 grams total, 12.3-21.08 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Conical bowl with low foot, painted band below the rim. 53.5 grams, 89.6 mm



From the collection of a Yorkshire, UK gentleman, items collected in the Holy Land in the 1960s.

With incuse geometric motif to the underside. 1.28 grams, 12.17 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

A seed-shaped black stone pendant with grooves to accept a gold wire wrapped around the body with a loop above. 2.12 grams, 18 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Piriform body with raised rim around the filler hole and volute nozzle, linear decoration to the discus, low basal ring. 51.8 grams, 85 mm



From a collection of lamps from a late Scottish gentleman, 1970-1990s.

Comprising: a chess piece silver seal matrix, the lower rim set with turquoise coloured glass cabochon indicating the direction of the seal, set with a dark carnelian intaglio engraved with a calligraphic inscription; a bronze seal bead with three faces, two with an inscription, and one showing a bird with open wings standing on a branch; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 10.82 grams total, 13-25 mm



Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Private collection, London.

Plano-convex in section with radiating ring-and-dot motifs. 19 grams, 38 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.