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LOT 1090
Luristan Bird-Spouted Terracotta Vessel with Animal Handle
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
10 1/4 in. (845 grams, 26 cm wide).
Piriform-bodied with a broad neck, slender spout with zoomorphic U-section terminal, double looped handle also zoomorphic in form, featuring applied pellets. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Rabi gallery, 1990s.
Private collection of Iranian art.
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LOT 1090
Luristan Bird-Spouted Terracotta Vessel with Animal Handle
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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Western Asiatic Carnelian Triangular Bead will Galley
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Composed of a polished flat diamond-shaped carnelian bead, with pricked design in the form of a galley, drilled for suspension; sold together with six translucent green glass doughnut-shaped beads displaying decorative vertical dashes around the external faces. 4.51 grams total, 8-20 mm
From a family collection formed 1900-1950; by descent circa 1980. -
Mesopotamian Round Cuneiform Tablet
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Domed underside with cuneiform text to the upper face; chipped. 114 grams, 70 mm
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. -
Assyrian Bronze Arm and Hand Type Brooch
Circa 7th-5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
The bow decorated with circumferential grooves, one arm ending with the partially preserved wire coil; the catchplate in the form of a hand engraved with an X; accompanied by a display frame with information ticket. 186 grams total, 10 x 10.3 cm including frame
Ex Robin Symes Gallery, London, UK, 1990s. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Fibulae with triangular bows (type 3 of Curtis classification) were the most common in Assyria. At least 66 bronze examples have been found at Nimrud, 32 in the graves and tombs at Ashur, 14 at Kouyunjik (some of them represented only by fragments), three at Nebbi Yunus, six at Khorsabad, three at Sharif Khan, all fragmentary, and single examples at Tell Billa and Tell al Rimah.
