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LOT 0025
Graeco-Roman Sard Gemstone of the God Apollo in Gold Mount
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (1.66 grams, 24 mm).
With intaglio profile bust of youthful male with curly hair, wearing a headdress; set in a later Roman period gold mount with roped border and attachment loop to the top; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenancePrivate English collection, formed between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 222, for intaglio type.
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LOT 0025
Graeco-Roman Sard Gemstone of the God Apollo in Gold Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13,000
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'The Smithsonian' Greek Terracotta Horse
Italy, 3rd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,240
Modelled in the round, horse in advancing pose with one foreleg raised, flange base; old collector's number '170439' to base; old label '170[...]' and '102' to lower body; neck repaired. 1.15 kg, 19.4 cm
Private collection of Baron d’Ussés. Acquired by F.B. Spiridon, New York, believed before 1894. Acquired by Eleanor Magruder (1852-1906), and thence by descent to her heirs in 1906. Accompanied by photographs of the object on display at the Smithsonian Institution and of the corresponding accession catalogue entry. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13108-248975. -
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Eastern Greek Marble Figure of Aphrodite
1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £5,000 - 7,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,778
Carved in the round figure of the goddess standing nude with one hand raised and the other on her pudendum, her hair gathered into a chignon with lateral bunches on the crown and with voids to allow for the suspension of small gold earrings; putto at her left knee; left hand partly absent; remounted on a socle base. 1.2 kg, 32.7 cm
Acquired in the 1992. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12860-241669. -
Greek Terracotta Goddess Figure
4th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Tanagra type, hollow-formed with a void to the reverse, standing female in tiered robe wearing a diadem and with her hair drawn back, applied torch in her right hand. 18 grams, 12 cm
European art market. Acquired in Münich in 2012. European private collection.
