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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 Silver Salamander Pendant with Frogs
Circa 17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A silver zoomorphic pendant composed of a salamander with stylised anatomical detailing, a suspension loop with free-running ring to upper edge and three loops below, each suspending a frog pendant. 10.2 grams, 46 mm high
English collection formed in the 1990s. UK art market. Property of an Essex gentleman. -
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Post Medieval Silver Apostle Peter Statuette
18th century A.D. or earlierSold for (Inc. bp): £104
A silver figure modelled in the round as Apostle Peter standing on a polygonal base, wearing a floor-length robe and clasping the key to the gate of Heaven to his breast, semi-naturalistic facial detailing, beard and hair. 50.13 grams, 65 mm
Fine condition.
Austrian private collection since circa 1995. Ex central London gallery. -
Northern Italian Gilt Wooden Casket
18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
An architectural gilt wooden casket with hinged lid; the exterior with billeting, egg-and-dart ornament and gadrooning, flowering vegetal schemes over the whole; the two principal faces each with a central heater shield painted with heraldic devices, flanked by robed standing figures holding a book each within a niche and with a palmette motif above; remains of polychrome to the shields and elsewhere. 69.5 x 44.5 cm
English private collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11679-199810
The arms are quartered: or an eagle sable; sable a demi-lion rampant or issuant from a fess; sable a mullet of eight points or; or a lion's head erased sable; the repetition of the colours 'or' gold and 'sable' black may be due to the overall colour-scheme of the casket. The timber shows some old insect flight holes and we are advised that this piece has been recently treated with Permethrin, as a precaution.
