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LOT 0927
Achaemenid Silver Ring with Warriors
7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (4.12 grams, 25.84 mm overall, 21.41 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)).
A silver finger ring with scaphoid bezel, incuse image of an armoured warrior with shield and spear, a horseman and a hatched gate or wall.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 25, for similar type.
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LOT 0927
Achaemenid Silver Ring with Warriors
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Nishapur Blue-Glazed Dish Collection
12th-13th century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
A trio of wheel-thrown dishes, each with a shallow foot: a turquoise-glazed example with helical motif around the rim, roundels and central interlace motif to the bowl; a second turquoise-glazed bowl decorated with dark amorphous patches to the rim and an interlace-style motif to the bowl; a dark blue-glazed bowl with black strips to rim, three nodules to bowl, concentric roundels framing an interlace design; iridescent surfaces. 599 grams total, 14.5-15.5 cm wide
Fine condition, minor abrasions and nicks.
Private California collection, USA. With Artemis Gallery, Colorado, USA. Private collection of Professor Kenneth Graham, London, UK. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Artemis Gallery. -
Amlash Figure of Fertility
Circa 13th-12th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £635
A copper-alloy fertility figure with openwork decoration, loop arms suspending pendants formed as slender figurative horned animals; suspension loop to reverse and cage-style torso; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 47 grams, 91 mm (78 grams total, 10 cm including stand)
Fine condition.
Acquired before 1983.mj Ex London gallery, 1990s. -
Parthian Gold Earrings
2nd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
A group of two similar crescentic gold earrings with slender hook-and-eye hoop, bifacial ornament with gold bulbs to the lower perimeter of both faces and top edges, adorned with pyramid and flower head granules to front face, granule clusters to the inner edge to front face, plain, beaded and striptwist filigree wire crescents to the body, with alternating granulates triangles and rectangles below, repeated on the reverse. 9.61 grams total, 32 mm wide each
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
