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LOT 1139
Elamite Chlorite Vessel with Geometric Decoration
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 in. (157 grams, 68 mm high).
Spool-shaped with a flared rim and splayed foot, the upper body carved with a frieze of combed triangles, two plain bands to the equator, guilloche below.
ProvenanceEx Robin Symes Ancient Art, pre 1999, inventory no.44.
Accompanied by an archaeological report of 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.12166.217920.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 17.190.106 for a vessel of similar form; cf. the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number AC1995.5.7, for similar guilloche; see also Abbas, A., ‘Reflections on the long-term socioeconomic and political development in the Ram Hormoz Plain, a highland-lowland buffer zone’ in AMIT, 2015, pp.113-148; for discussion on this kind of Proto-Elamite or Elamite Pottery see Kohl, P.L., ‘Carved Chlorite Vessels’ in Expedition Magazine 18,, no.1, September, 1975, pp. 18-31, with examples (fragments) in pp.26-28; Alvarez-Mon, J., Basello G.P. and Wicks Y., The Elamite World,, London and New York, 2018.
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From the House of Justice at Isin; inscribed with columns of cuneiform text: I, (the divine) Lipit-Eštar, humble shepherd of (the city of) Nippur, faithful farmer of (the city of) Ur, tireless worker for (the city of) Eridu, perfect Lord for (the city of) Uruk, King of (the city of) Isin, King of Sumer and Akkad, who pleases (the goddess) Innana, on the day I established justice in Sumer and Akkad, I built the temple of justice at the Reservoir, the great space of the gods; and bearing inked collection number: 'BEC.2 00015024' to base. 158 grams, 11.3 cm
Previously from the estate of a West Sussex, UK, collector. From a collection acquired from various auction houses in the UK. From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12314-215541.
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From an old English collection, 1990s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
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