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LOT 1282
Heavy Luristan Bronze Dish
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
7 3/4 in. (712 grams, 19.5 cm).
Comprising a shallow body with sharply sloping walls and wide, everted rim.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1282
Heavy Luristan Bronze Dish
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
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Neo-Assyrian Grey Stone Cylinder Seal with Kneeling God
Circa 900-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
With a god shooting a sphinx; accompanied by a museum quality impression and a copy of an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Cylinder Seal of Grey Stone, 39 x 12. Top and bottom borders are filled with rows of chevrons going in opposite directions, and the design between a kneeling god shooting at a facing sphynx with a bird's head. As filling motifs there are: a small tree or plant, a lozenge, a triangle and a crescent. At each end the stone is stained by remains of original bronze caps, and the bronze bar which ran through the central hole is still present, though the rest of the metal, save for traces, has disappeared. This is a Neo-Assyrian cylinder, c. 900-800 B.C., from Assyria itself, or from neighbouring areas.' 8.7 grams, 39 mm
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