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LOT 1236
Elamite Bronze Bird Figure
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 in. (45 grams, 50 mm).
Stylised bird with curved beak, raised discoid eyes and attachment loop at the elongated neck. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Graeco-Persian Bronze Bowl
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Achaemenid Light Blue Glass and Ceramic Bead Necklace String
6th-4th century B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £72
Composed of graduated mixed beads including one with eye motifs, central feature a tubular facetted bead with an oblate bead below; restrung. 15.2 grams, 36 cm
From the London, UK, art market in the 1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Assyrian Gypsum Relief with Head of a Bearded Man
704-681 B.C.Estimate: £8,000 - 10,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £4,000
Rectangular frieze fragment with low-relief carving of a profile bust with short straight hair confined by a brow-band, segmented curls forming the beard, furrowed brow, one arm extended; handwritten label to rear 'from the Koyunjik palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh and incised legend 'KOUYUNJIK' and 'A'; mounted on a custom-made stand. 530 grams total, 11.6 cm including stand
Allegedly found in the Koyunjik Palace of Sennacherib. Ex property of a gentleman, UK, acquired in the 1970s. Ex private collection, Oxfordshire, UK, 1988. Anonymous sale, with Christie's, London, 7 December 1994, no.235. Art market, New York. Ex private collection, Tokyo, Japan. Private European collection, 2009. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12880-241660. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.