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LOT 0245
Central Asian Chert Cylinder Seal with Hero and Monster
CIRCA 11TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (2 5/8 in.) (11.3 grams, 24.2 mm (65 grams total, 68 mm including stand)).
With triumphant heroes, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and typed and signed scholarly note issued by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of White Stone 24 x 17 mm. The design shows the same scene twice: a standing hero with big long beard and wearing a long robe to the ankles is gripping one front paw of a rearing monster in front of him as he holds up the other hand. The monster has a bull's body with wings and a bird's head with projecting horns or ears. This is a rare type of seal coming from west central Asia. A date c. 1100-800 BC is the most likely. The seal is in good condition.' [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; item number T-927.
Academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s; accompanied by an original typed and signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
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LOT 0245
Central Asian Chert Cylinder Seal with Hero and Monster
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
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Opening Bid: £250
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Sassanian Silver Plate with a Shah Hunting
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Private US collection, kept in Switzerland, since the 1960s. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00122910. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12023-214175.
Various are the parallels for this scene, visible on many silver plates of Sassanian and Post-Sassanian periods. Good parallels can be found with plates in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Peroz or Kavad I hunting rams, Harper & Meyers,1981, p.XII, pl.17), in the Museum fur Islamische Künst, Berlin (King hunting, Harper & Meyers,1981, pl.20) and especially with the silver-gilt plate from Nizhne Shakharovka (king hunting boars, Harper & Meyers, 1981, pl.32).
