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LOT 0228
Bactrian Lapis Lazuli Pin Head with Figures
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 1/2 in. (46.5 grams, 40 mm).
Drum-shaped in profile with running guilloche to the rim, obverse with low-relief figure of a regardant bird with bearded head of a man; reverse with regardant figure of a crouching lion with similar bearded head.
Provenancewith Gallery Rosen Ancient Art, Tel Aviv, 1968.
with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Accompanied by a copy of the original 1968 invoice.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12408-225343.
See Pottier, M. H., Matérial Funéraire de la Bactriane Méridoniale de l'Âge de Bronze, Paris, 1984, pp.99.
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LOT 0228
Bactrian Lapis Lazuli Pin Head with Figures
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
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Luristan Bronze Kohl Pot
13th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
With bulbous body and tapering tubular neck with flared rim, three radiating stub feet. 92 grams, 58 mm
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side; repaired. 269 grams, 10 cm
From a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Such scribal tablets are always of this round shape. Type IV tablets, also known as 'lentils', are circular tablets containing one or a few lines of a composition written out once by the teacher and then a second time by the student, either underneath (typical of Nippur tablets), or on the reverse. This would appear to be an example of the former. -
West Central Asian Bronze Stamp Seal with Human Figure
23rd-19th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £257
Openwork discoid seal with anthropomorphic motif; accompanied by an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Stamp Seal of Bronze. 57x59x17 mm. This is round, with flat compartmented and open-work face. The back has a stout suspension loop. The design on the face is of a standing creature -- human with bird's head -- and filling shapes. This comes from West Central Asia and dates to c. 2300-1900 B.C. It is a rare design and the seal is in fair condition: some of the edge of the plain outer band is lost.' 53 grams, 58 mm
Ex Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection number Y-905, academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s.
