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LOT 1625
Large Bronze Age Decorated Grey Ware Bowl
EUROPE, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 1/2 in. (711 grams, 19 cm wide).
Squat in profile with broad base and thick inturned rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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Bronze Age Silvered Shield Boss
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Discoid mount with flange border, carinated conical umbo and stepped centre with knop finial; attachment loop to reverse. 33.2 grams, 60 mm
Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s. -
Bronze Age Ceramic Vessel Grave Group
Early Bronze Age, circa 4000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Earthenware vessel group comprising four with two opposed loop handles to the rim and two with a single thick loop handle; accompanied by an old collector's record card stating: 'Grave Group' of Pots. Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (4000-2000 BC). Central or S.E. Europe. Probably made for funerary use as they are too small to have been of practical value. The contents of a single grave (or at least 2-3 adjacent graves).' 486 grams total, 49-74 mm
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s. -
Bronze Age Coiled Ring
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
With coil-pattern disc bezel and plain hoop. 2.59 grams, 22.55 mm overall, 19.43 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
