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LOT 1500
Assyrian Watercolour Painting
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
27 3/4 x 23 in. (3.4 kg, 70.5 x 58.5 cm).
A framed and glazed hand-finished watercolour drawing on paper with French captions, entitled 'Antiquité. Assyrie et Babylone', depicting Assyrian female figures with details of costume, eventails (fly-whisks), chaussures (footwear) parasols (sunshades) and other items.
ProvenanceBy repute with Sotheby's, London, UK.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Property of a London gentleman.
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Post Medieval Mosaic Glass Dish
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Diskobolos of Myron Statue
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French collection, 1960s-early 2000s. From an important Paris gallery, France. with Hampel Fine Art Auctions GmbH & Co KG, Munich, Germany, 12 December 2014, lot 1912.
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Elizabethan Boat-Shaped Pendant with Putti
16th-early 17th century A.D.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £475
A gold pendant formed as a crescent frame with vertical bar and two outer bands; bar with trefoil finial, pierced for suspension; crescent with pierced lugs to the lower edge and wire dangles; outer bands with putto mask to the centre, frond detailing and green enamelling. 2.77 grams, 27 mm
Acquired 1960s-1990s. Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
