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LOT 0229
Akkadian Cylinder Seal with Contest Scene
CIRCA 2000-2300 B.C.
1 in. (9.21 grams, 24 mm).
With frieze depicting rearing ibexes and lions in combat; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
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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Ottoman Style Silver Ring Group
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s 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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Achaemenid Columnar Seal with Figures
Circa 500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Square in section, sides tapering to the pierced apex; sequence of four intaglio figures: female on a hatched seat offering food to a goose; advancing female with hair in a single braid to the rear, holding a bowl and alabastron; male in knee-length tunic with lion-skin hood, holding an inverted spear; advancing female with hair in a single braid to the rear, holding a wreath and flower; rhyton to the underside. 9.8 grams, 25 mm
Acquired 1970-1999. London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12540-231460. 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.
