Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins

Tubular type with voids to the sidewall, open underside, twisted loop finial. 4.1 grams, 31 mm



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

Piriform body and funicular neck; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 28.5 grams, 10.6 cm (91.1 grams total, 13.2 cm including stand)



From an important London, UK, collection 1980-2020.

These small flasks are typical in shape and dimensions, produced by the Egyptian or Syrian workshops of the Fatimid Empire. They were realised in ultramarine blue, slightly translucent glass, free-blown, and with a snapped-off base.

D-shaped in plan with incuse motif to underside of helmeted figure advancing with bow; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 12.1 grams, 24 mm



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

Including a mushroom-shaped drop, reef knot, melon and other types. 6.17 grams total, 8-16 mm



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

Including lentoid-section fusiform type, and oblate types. 96 grams total, 26-51 mm



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

Pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to both flat faces and one edge; accompanied by an old handwritten slip: 'Old Babylonian legal document, c.1800-1600 B.C.'. 101 grams, 66 mm



Private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London, UK. Accompanied by an old handwritten note by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.

With frieze depicting two male figures in profile, one wearing a short and one a long skirt, both harvesting a wheat field; a horned quadruple animal between the men; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.22 grams, 17 mm



London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent.

Fusiform in plan and plano-convex in section with incuse design of two ibexes; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.94 grams, 16 mm



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

Comprising: a squat jar with a lattice pattern to the shoulder; a squat cup with a basal ring; a bowl with painted geometric motifs. 470 grams total, 9.5-11.1 cm



The largest jar ex Abelita family collection. Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. The largest jar accompanied by a previous catalogue information slip.

Comprising: low jar with painted bands to the sidewall; jar with carinated profile, painted roundels; jar with flared vertical sidewall, painted maze pattern. 617 grams total, 9.8-10.7 cm



Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.

Squat jar with a discoid narrow base, bulbous body and a flared rim. 114 grams, 71 mm



Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.

Comprising: a ring with a hexagonal inscribed bezel and raised leaf-shaped bosses on the shank; a ring with a tall domed bezel with petals; a ring with a keeled hoop and a circular bezel with a central lozenge. 21.3 grams total, 19-26 mm



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