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LOT 0211
Achaemenid Silver Alabastron with Duck Handles
CIRCA 500 B.C.
5 1/4 in. (95 grams, 13.2 cm).
With a bag-shaped tubular body and a rounded base; applied loop handles to the shoulders, each formed as a duck's head.
ProvenanceLondon art market, 1980s-2000s.
Private collection, London, UK.
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LOT 0211
Achaemenid Silver Alabastron with Duck Handles
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
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Mixed Ancient Bead Collection
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £59
Including fusiform, oblate biconical, polyhedral and other types in glass, and other materials. 107 grams total, 1-43 mm
London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Achaemenid Blue Glass Bead Necklace String
6th-4th century B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung designer necklace string of oblate and other types with annular pendant centrepiece. 16 grams, 40.5 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Neo-Assyrian Grey Stone Cylinder Seal with Kneeling God
Circa 900-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
With a god shooting a sphinx; accompanied by a museum quality impression and 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 Grey Stone, 39 x 12. Top and bottom borders are filled with rows of chevrons going in opposite directions, and the design between a kneeling god shooting at a facing sphynx with a bird's head. As filling motifs there are: a small tree or plant, a lozenge, a triangle and a crescent. At each end the stone is stained by remains of original bronze caps, and the bronze bar which ran through the central hole is still present, though the rest of the metal, save for traces, has disappeared. This is a Neo-Assyrian cylinder, c. 900-800 B.C., from Assyria itself, or from neighbouring areas.' 8.7 grams, 39 mm
From the private collection of a North American lady, formed 1970s-early 1990s, with collection reference no.P16. Accompanied by a copy of a scholarly note, typed and signed by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert dated February 1992 and an old photograph.
