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LOT 1621
Fatimid Rock Crystal Bead Necklace
10TH CENTURY A.D.
14 1/8 in. (105 grams, 36 cm).
Choker-length necklace composed of tabular collared beads with three metal beads, restrung and with a modern magnetic closure.
ProvenanceMehdi Mahboubian Gallery, New York, 1970s.
Private collection, London, UK.
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LOT 1621
Fatimid Rock Crystal Bead Necklace
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£500 (EUR 580; USD 675) +BP*
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Western Asiatic and Other Pale Blue Stone and Glass Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of graduated mixed beads, including a leaf-shaped bead, restrung. 53.4 grams, 37.5 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Decorated Terracotta Jug with Zoomorphic Handle
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Broad bulbous body with three low domed feet to the base,incised roundels to the shoulder, flared neck with strap handle and beat-head detailing. 7.51 grams, 25 cm
Ex North West London specialist collection of pottery, 1990s. -
Sumerian Proto-Cuneiform Tablet with Symbols
Jemdet Nasr Period, Uruk III, 3200-3000 B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Pillow-shaped with incised grid to the broad faces, dense cuneiform pictographic text in the columns with impressed pellet numerals. 45.6 grams, 63 mm
Percy Barnevik, Sweden. Private collection, UK, acquired June 2000. with Sam Fogg, London. Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015. Accompanied by a copy of Professor Lambert’s notes and two-page cataloguing report. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13429-259930.
Various collections of cuneiform tablets form a corpus of texts mainly of administrative nature, from the Uruk III and Ur III periods. The proto-cuneiform, as a system of proto-writing, emerged in Mesopotamia ca.3500-3200 BC, during the Uruk period.
