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LOT 1257
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 - 7 1/4 in. (157 grams total, 12.7-18.5 cm).
Mainly triangular-headed barbed and tanged type with thick midrib. [5]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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Achaemenid Bronze Cup
6th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Conical in profile with low disc to the foot. 156 grams, 12.5 cm
Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman, Mayfair gallery, 1990s. -
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Woman
6th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105
Large female head with angular nose with straight ridge, rounded cheeks and chin, large sockets for inlaid eyes with rounded depressions in the centre of the eyes, grooved eyebrows and outlines of the eyes, the tapering neck long and cylindrical, the back left roughly tooled; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 3.66 kg total, 31.4 cm including stand
UK collection, 1990s. Acquired on the UK art market, before 2000. Private collection, Mr M.V., a London-based businessman.
This finely carved calcite-alabaster head was originally set within a stela and inscribed with the name of the deceased. Six hundred of these funerary stelae were discovered in localities like Mārib, and other examples were later found during the excavations of the Awwam temple cemetery. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Cup
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Hemispherical in profile with thin rim. 140 grams, 92 mm
Ex 1990s collection and with a central London gallery.