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LOT 0044
Mycenaean Pottery Stirrup Jar
1400-1200 B.C.
3 1/2 in. (154 grams, 91 mm wide).
A pottery vessel formed with a squat carinated body, slender waisted neck and similar central stem with two flanking handles; painted geometric ornament composed of concentric bands and clusters of lines.
Provenancewith Christie's, London, South Kensington, 12 December 1989, lot 220.
LiteratureCf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 74.51.5905 and 74.51.768, for similar.
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Greek Apulian Red-Figure Stand
4th century B.C.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
A ceramic columnar stand with trumpet-shaped base, carinated balusters and broad upper face with dished centre; painted with running wave patterns to the baluster, base and top, the centre with a rosette; the base with the profile head of a lady of fashion with the earrings, necklace and diadem picked out in white. 847 grams, 25 cm high
French collection, 1990s-early 2000s. Ex Hampel Auctions, Munich, Germany, 1990s. -
Greek Ring with Tyche
3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
An Eastern Greek bronze finger ring with intaglio winged Tyche in profile. 6.09 grams, 20.50 mm overall, 16.92 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K, USA 5 1/4, Europe 9.95, Japan 9)
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Important North West London collection. -
Graeco-Parthian Marble Head of a Divinity
2nd century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
An alabaster bust of a goddess with elongated face and large almond-shaped eyes; braided hair with openwork topknot and socket to accept an inset stud, gathered at the rear in a chignon. 639 grams, 11.6 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11611-199026.
Several female figures, found in the Parthian graves of Babylonia, are represented in loose attire exhibiting strange headdresses, which give us some notion of the costume of the period. Some of them show a headgear rising into two tall conical peaks, from which a veil is suspended. Nude female figures, probably representing Assyrian Mylitta or Venus, were extremely common during the Parthian period, having been handed down from antiquity. Similar figures are universal throughout the east before the Christian era.
