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LOT 1160
Mixed Artefact Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.-1ST MILLENNIUM A.D.
1 1/2 - 5 1/2 in. (382 grams total, 4-14 cm).
Including a bone dress pin, small bronze axehead, ceramic bust fragment and other items. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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Western Asiatic Steatite Vessel with Lions
3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
With frieze of crouching lions in profile, each with sockets to the flanks to accept coloured inserts (absent); chipped rim repaired. 273 grams, 85 mm
with Surena Gallery, 1999. Private collection, Europe. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate dated 20th April 2004. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12405-226712. -
Mixed Ancient Necklace Bead Group
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £364
Comprising a quantity of variously shaped beads in faience, glass and stone, including some larger tabular beads. 72 grams, 1-30 mm
From a bead collection formed in the 1990s. -
Late Babylonian Alabaster Cylinder Seal with Winged King
Circa 1000-800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Carved with a contest scene comprising two winged male figures attacking a rearing bull-headed winged beast; the figure before the beast gripping its front leg and holding a sceptre, one foot placed on the corpse of a goat or a ram; the figure behind holding a sceptre and a raised club or khopesh in the act of striking the beast from behind; possibly some re-engraving. 20.9 grams, 40 mm
Ex property of the late Mr S.M., London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. Accompanied by a previous typed cataloguing card.
