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LOT 0588
Greek Bronze Horse Head Mount
CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
1 1/2 in. (34.8 grams, 38 mm).
Modelled in the round with large almond-shaped eyes and pricked ears.
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 0588
Greek Bronze Horse Head Mount
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Greek Core-Formed Tall Glass Alabastron
6th-5th century B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
With a fusiform body, slender neck and broad flange rim, decorated with marvered feathering and spiralling trails; two lateral loop handles and a pinched lateral lug. 36.69 grams, 91 mm
Anonymous sale, Binoche & Giquello, Paris, 30th May 2012, no.124. Private collection, Switzerland. Accompanied by a copy of French passport no.0150269. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13188-249220.
Alabastra of this typology, core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled, are typical of the Eastern Mediterranean. They were diminutive examples of a shape popularly produced for perfumed oils in the Greek world. Larger forms are known in both glass and ceramics. -
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp
Cyprus, circa 4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Round body with raised rim on the filler hole, long tubular nozzle, and gently flaring foot; collection label on the base '4th c. BC, M6'. 60.5 grams, 80 mm
Private collection, Oxfordshire, UK, by direct descent from the collection of Judge George Cyril Griffith-Williams (1893-1983), Supreme Court Judge of the Colony of Cyprus; items having been collected in the 1930s and 1940s in Cyprus during his tenure there. -
Scythian Bronze Stag Facing Back Mount
Circa 6th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Formed as a crouching stag with its legs tucked underneath the body, head turned back and resting against the body, scrolled horns. 23.6 grams, 40.8 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
