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LOT 0203
Monumental Western Asiatic Pottery Jar
CIRCA 3000 B.C.
25 1/4 in. (17 kg, 64 cm high).
Comprising a sharply tapering lower body, parallel-sided upper body and rounded rim; decorated in dark brown with thirteen square panels with central saltire on a hatched field; repaired.
Provenancewith Mahboubian Gallery, London, UK, 1974.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12972-245238.
Cf. Notable Works of Art Now on the Market, supplement to The Burlington Magazine, December 1974, pl.1, for type.
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LOT 0203
Monumental Western Asiatic Pottery Jar
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
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Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Group of cornerless cube-shaped and other graduated beads. 60 grams total, 48 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Large Sogdian Silver-Gilt Wild Boar Rhyton
5th-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65,000
A Sogdian or Sasanian head of a wild boar with detailed facial features including large snout, curled tusks, alert eyes with heavy eyelids, erect ears, the animal's mane framing the head and back; a series of small circles decorating the cheeks; an oval vessel mouth emerging from the mane and the spout formed as a pierced stud at the centre of the boar's chest. 1.3 kg, 21.5 cm long
with a New York gallery, 1970s. Private collection, London. Accompanied by three black-and-white photographs taken prior to cleaning, believed to date from the 1970s. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12979-246395.
The production of silver vessels and dinner objects for the court was highly centralised within the Sasanian Empire. In the 5th and 6th century AD, the production of silver vessels expanded, creating new shapes, such as pitchers, elliptical bowls and high-footed bowls. If the iconography included both Dionysian and Christian imagery, the subjects linked with royal power were the favourites, and among them, the boar. The boar was, in fact, the animal associated with the Zoroastrian Izad Vahram, the epitome of victory. It was not a coincidence that one of the usurpers of the Persian throne, the general Farrukhān, took the title of Shahrbaraz (reigning in 630 AD), whose name means ‘The Boar of the Empire’, attesting to his dexterity in military command and warlike personality. Shahrwarāz derived in fact from the middle-Persian word shahr (country) and warāz (boar). -
Western Asiatic Glass Vessel Collection
Circa 12th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Including four miniature amphorae each with a ribbed collar to the neck, and a fifth with sealing wax at the mouth. 130 grams total, 9.2-14.2 cm
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016.
