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LOT 1013
Achaemenid Bronze Flower Finial Collection
6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
2 1/2 - 6 3/4 in. (687 grams total, 62-175 mm).
Including two small buds with ferrous spikes and two larger blooms with square-section mounting pins. [4]
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market, 1990s.
English private collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1013
Achaemenid Bronze Flower Finial Collection
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Western Asiatic Turquoise Bead Necklace
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £169
Restrung group of lentoid-section and other beads. 5.44 grams, 55 cm
Ex Susan Hadida, Faustus Art and Jack Ogden, 1970-1980. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Old Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Drinking Scene
Circa 2300-2200 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Cylinder with cord and bead handles; accompanied by a copy of an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Black Stone, 31 x 19 mm. The scene consist of three figures: on the left is a god, marked out by his horned tiara, and sitting on an angular stool generally thought to represent a temple facade. Facing him is a human seated on a more practical seat, with crossing legs. Each holds a straw to a pot in the middle, from which they are or will be drinking. Behind the god stands an attendant with one hand raised. For a terminal there is a stylised tree. This is an old Akkadian drinking scene, c. 2300-2200 B.C., from Mesopotamia or south-west Iran. It is an important example because normally both figures look either divine or human, but here one, is clearly divine and the other human. The drink in the pot is beer, and straws were used because it was not strained, and all the husks of the barley were in the liquid, and were strained out by the straws.'; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 22.5 grams, 31 mm
UK private collection, acquired 1980-1983. Accompanied by a copy of a scholarly note, typed and signed by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert in January 1992. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Bracelet
10th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £45
Penannular in form with large polyhedral terminals. 224 grams, 85 mm
Acquired before 1978. Private collection, UK. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
