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LOT 0224
Large Uruk Period Black Stone Bull Figure
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/2 in. (223 grams, 90 mm).
Carved in the round as a crouching bull with its legs folded underneath the body, tail tucked between the hindlegs and resting against the side of the right side of the body; the beast's head held high with drilled nostrils and recessed eyes to accept inlays, the base of the horns drilled to accept separate inserts.
ProvenanceEx S. collection, London, UK, 1980s-2000s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12254-222311.
Cf. The British Museum, London, museum no.116686, for an example in limestone.
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Opening Bid: £1,750
Rebound as a hardback with full leather binding, gold block border to covers and central arabesque foliage panel; 56 laid-paper pages expertly conserved, usage wear to edges repaired and restored, with drypoint lineation; title page with header block of calligraphic thuluth script reserved against a polychrome field with decorative foliage scrolls and blocks of colour; four lines of black script below; second page with similar header block, six lines of text with black and red diacritics and floral embellishments; rest with typically nine lines of text with red and black diacritics, floral motifs with liquid gold pointing; marginal notes and concentric roundel motifs with rosette to the centre and tulip motif above; page 54 with two lines of footnotes. 954 grams, 30.4 x 38 cm
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1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Discoid in plan with basal ring and shallow dished face. 2.05 kg, 21.7 cm wide
From 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.
