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LOT 1258
Elamite Bronze Votive Bull
2500-1000 B.C.
2 in. (64.3 grams, 53 mm).
Modelled in the round standing zebu with prominent horns.
ProvenanceUK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.
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LOT 1258
Elamite Bronze Votive Bull
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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Western Asiatic Silver Drinking Bowl
2nd-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Broad and squat in profile with repoussé basal ring; incised ring below the rim to the outer face. 169 grams, 16 cm
Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Private collection, London, UK. -
Large Kushan Gold Pendant with Bust of a Goddess
Circa 4th century A.D.Estimate: £12,000 - 17,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £6,000
A late Kushan or Hephthalites Dynasty discoid pendant with a female deity, possibly Nana, at the centre holding a lotus flower in her right hand, hair elaborately dressed and wearing large earrings, necklace and bracelets; enclosed by a border of stylised bull heads and a double-plaited border, the outer edge with raised bosses; later applied polygonal suspension loop with granulated collars and an oval garnet cabochon. 22.11 grams, 71 mm
Acquired by a Swiss family in the mid-1980s to late 1990s, thence by descent. Private collection, Switzerland, since the late 1990s. 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.13021-246776.
Nana (Kushan Greek: Νανα, Ναναια, Ναναϸαο, Sogdian Nni) was a Bactrian female deity, a variation of the pan-Asian Nana, a fusion of the Sumero-Babylonian Inanna-Ishtar with a local deity, in her Kušan form with the local (Zoroastrian) Harakhvati Aredvi Sura Anahita. Such syncretism was common among Kušan deities. She was an important patron deity in the Kušan Empire and the most important deity worshipped by Emperor Kaniška (c. 127-150 A.D.). -
Western Asiatic Gold Necklace with Carnelian Beads and Gold Grape Pendants
1st-2nd century A.D.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Restrung group of tubular carnelian beads and turquoise spacer beads, with biconical centrepiece and two hollow-formed gold cluster drops. 26.12 grams, 59.5 cm
Acquired before 1983. Ex London gallery, 1990s. Private collection, London, UK.
