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LOT 1652
Neo-Babylonian Banded Agate Duck Weight
CIRCA 800-600 B.C.
1/2 in. (1.6 grams, 14 mm).
Modelled in the round with its head and neck resting along the spine.
ProvenanceEx private collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK, 1970s-2000s.
Accompanied by a previously illustrated catalogue card with provenance.
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LOT 1652
Neo-Babylonian Banded Agate Duck Weight
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Ottoman Silver Fob with Calligraphic Gemstone
18th-19th century A.D.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Ellipsoid in plan with lobed rim to the cell, round-section shank with suspension ring; inset gemstone with Naskh calligraphic legend among tendrils and flowers; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 8.2 grams, 29 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Western Asiatic Rhyton in the Form of a Boot
Late 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £825
With rich bichrome ornamentation in black and beige bordered by a red line, pointed tip with a small pouring hole on the underside; funicular upper section decorated with red ornamentation of a stylised bird surrounded by an arcade with reserved circles on each side; band of reserved circles above at the rim; bootleg and heel partly restored, interior encrusted. 475 grams, 20 cm long
Ex Elie Borowski, Basel, March 1975. From the collection of Italian palaeontologist and Scholar Giancarlo Ligabue (1931-2015). -
South Arabian Bronze Bowl Featuring a Hunting Scene and Inscription
Southwestern Arabia, Kingdom of Ma’in, circa 3rd century B.C.-2nd century A.D.Estimate: £5,500 - 7,500 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,750
Broad and squat with impressed guilloche below the inner rim, repoussé frieze with fleeing ibex attacked by a gryphon and kneeling archer to the rear; central rosette; seven incised characters to inner face and four to outer face. 277 grams, 15.5 cm
Saleh family collection, Germany, formed prior to 1972. Private collection, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12809-241324.
The presence of decorated bronze bowls during the later Pre-Islamic period, mainly in the territories of the modern Emirates, is well documented. Many decorated bowls and bowl fragments were discovered at Mleiha; one or more possible fragments were found at ed-Dur, and a single bowl comes from a Pre-Islamic period C tomb in Dibba. They are also similar to the so-called Phoenician - or, more correctly, Levantine - bowls produced in the 9th-early 7th century B.C. They combine local Levantine elements with imagery borrowed from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and local Arabian themes, such as camel and horse riding, often composed in radial zones.
