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LOT 0227
Neo Babylonian Black Stone Duck Weight
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
6 1/8 in. (2.66 kg, 15.5 cm).
Carved with two lateral broad ovoid wings and the head resting along the spine; pierced at the neck for suspension.
ProvenanceCollection of a gentleman, previously Home Counties, UK, collection.
LiteratureCf. Kozloff, A.P., Animals in Ancient Art, from the Leo Mildenberg collection, Cleveland, 1981, fig.12bis.
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Western Asiatic Silver Staff Terminal with Interlaced Dragons
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £675
Hollow-formed with bulb finial, low-relief image of opposed dragons with detailed scale texture; circumferential band with incised guilloche below; rim chipped. 341 grams, 19.5 cm
with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s. -
Phoenician Silver Inscribed Seal Matrix
Circa 8th-5th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
With inscription in Phoenician script [mem 'alep sin nun ayin nun samek = water, ox head, teeth, fish, eye, fish, tower]. 6.4 grams, 16 mm
From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva. -
West Central Asian Bronze Stamp Seal with Pig
23rd-20th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
A bronze seal in the form of a standing pig, accompanied by a typed and signed note by the late W.G. Lambert, Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: 'Stamp Seal of Bronze, 37 x 61 x 14mm. This has the shape of a standing pig, with no ears marked, but with a short tail and big round eye. Its snout is raised. The seal has a flat, compartmented face, and flat back on which a handle of sheet metal is mounted. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 2300-2000 B.C. It has a rare and attractive design, and is in very good condition save that the hind leg is broken off. The metal has been conserved.' 37 grams, 61 mm
Ex Signo collection, the property of a West London businessman, formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s; collection number R-770, academically researched and catalogued by the late Professor Lambert in the early 1990s.
