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LOT 1336
Mitanni Glazed Composition Cylinder Seal with Quadrupeds
CIRCA 1420-1300 B.C.
7/8 in. (1.78 grams, 22 mm).
With frieze of antelopes and a tree. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.021.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 617, for type.
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LOT 1336
Mitanni Glazed Composition Cylinder Seal with Quadrupeds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Western Asiatic Bronze Seal Matrix
2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
With a tongue-shaped handle placed perpendicular to the oval body; separately made intaglio with geometric motifs. 9.95 grams, 19 mm
From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva. -
Islamic Manuscript, The Secret of Al-Azhar and the Red Sulfur by the al-Hakim Al-Khemai Dhul-Nun Uthman bin Suwavd Al-Akhmaimi
933 A.H.Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £3,000
Rebound as a hardback with leather binding to spine and fore-edge envelope flap, marbled boards, title page with triangular block of text in red and black, notes in a different hand below; text pages typically 11 lines of wide-spaced naskh script in black ink with red title and diacritics, six-pointed stars, marginal notation, red-framed numerical and other tables; damaged pages repaired and restored; dense blocks of script to both end pages. 553 grams, 15 x 20.3 cm
From an important family collection started in the late 1950s. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12272-220411.
The text is 'The Secret of Al Azhar and the Red Sulphur' (known as 'The Light of Lights and the Secret of Secrets') by al-Hakim Al-Khemai Dhul-Nun Uthman bin Suwavd Al-Akhmaimi, written out by Yususf bin Yagoub Al Ashiuli in 933 A.H. (1526 A.D.). -
Phoenician Stone Figure
Circa 5th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
Wedge-shaped in section with figure carved in the half-round to one face, warrior with armoured covering to the shoulders and chest, knee-length tunic. 2.65 kg, 23.3 cm
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.
