Achaemenid Blue Glass Bead Necklace String

Carnelian cloison dated 1290 AH (1873 AD) with personal stamp seal for Rahim Al-Hosseini. 16.65 grams, 29.85 mm overall, 20.80 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W, USA 11, Europe 25, Japan 24)



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

Of lentoid cross-section with impressed grid and characters or ideograms, an economic text relating to farm produce written over two faces. 113 grams, 89 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. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12093-213020.

Each a hoop extending between two conical wound-wire bosses above a cluster of granules, carinated shank below with third cluster beneath; one loop replaced. 17.48 grams total, 26-27 mm



From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.