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LOT 1307
Amlash Tall Terracotta Jug
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
9 1/4 in. (545 grams, 23.5 cm).
An elongated ovoid body with a flat base and trumpet-shaped neck, with a handle to the rear.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1307
Amlash Tall Terracotta Jug
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
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With a deep hemispherical bowl and three stub feet, two lateral trapezoidal flanges to the rim, each with an arched handle; similar flange to forward edge with reserved panel of scrolled foliage; to the rear, flange with shallow median socket decorated with scrolled tendrils, two lateral discs each with a star of intersecting triangles; signed by Muhammad Bin Husayn. 5.75 kg, 43.5 cm
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A small cylinder seal showing a beast looking back, a winged sun and a flying duck, star and eye motifs as fillers; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 3.36 grams, 18 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. Accompanied by a previous typed catalogue slip with collection no.59. -
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Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group
4th-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
Comprising: frieze with three robed figures flanking a hatched column; two ibexes contending with looped necks, standing bird behind; deeply cut linear image of rearing ibexes; shallow-cut image of a hero with raised arm fending off a winged gryphon, star in the field; frieze with facing hero wrestling two rearing beasts; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. 28.7 grams total, 18-32 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
