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LOT 1116
Achaemenid Bronze Bowl
CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
6 1/2 in. (338 grams, 16.5 cm).
With high tinning to the inner face giving a lustrous silvery finish, a tribute to the techniques of the Persian craftsmen; decorated with lightly incised concentric circles inside centre, thickened rim.
ProvenanceFrom an old Oxford collection, formed in the 1980s. Ex Chris Martin, UK.
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Syro-Hittite Silver Standing Stag
12th-8th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,000
Modelled in the round standing with head raised, recurved horns or antlers, slender muzzle with mouth detailing, incised ring-and-dot motif to shoulders and hips; mounted on a custom-made stand. 69.2 grams total, 80 mm high including stand
London art market, 1978. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12263-220844.
Stylistically, the item shares features with the Hattian stag figurine found in the royal tombs in Alacahöyük (now in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Turkey) and dating from the period 2100-2000 B.C. The use of ring-and-dot embellishments to the flanks is suggestive of some cultural continuity. The animal depicted is probably an ibex rather than a European stag. However, a date of manufacture in the period after the fall of the Hittite Empire in the 12th century B.C. seems more probable. -
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With bulbous body, flared rim to the mouth, lateral pie-crust ledge handles, pointillé segmentation lines. 96 grams, 84 mm wide
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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13th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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