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LOT 1424
Neo-Babylonian Hematite Duck Weight
CIRCA 800-600 B.C.
1 1/4 in. (14.1 grams, 30 mm).
Modelled in the round with its neck and head resting along the spine.
ProvenancePrivate collection, 1990s-early 2000s.
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LOT 1424
Neo-Babylonian Hematite Duck Weight
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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Western Asiatic Stone and Other Bead and Pendant Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Composed of graduated mixed beads with a large discoid pendant, restrung. 57 grams, 34.5 cm
Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection. -
Western Asiatic Ceramic and Other Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Graduated group of mainly oblate beads with a large cylindrical feature bead; restrung. 44.5 grams, 37 cm
Acquired in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, collection. -
Large Kushan Gold Pendant with Bust of a Goddess
Circa 4th century A.D.Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5,000
A late Kushan or Hephthalites Dynasty discoid pendant with a female deity, possibly Nana, at the centre holding a lotus flower in her right hand, hair elaborately dressed and wearing large earrings, necklace and bracelets; enclosed by a border of stylised bull heads and a double-plaited border, the outer edge with raised bosses; later applied polygonal suspension loop with granulated collars and an oval garnet cabochon. 22.11 grams, 71 mm
Acquired by a Swiss family in the mid-1980s to late 1990s, thence by descent. Private collection, Switzerland, since the late 1990s. 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.13021-246776.
Nana (Kushan Greek: Νανα, Ναναια, Ναναϸαο, Sogdian Nni) was a Bactrian female deity, a variation of the pan-Asian Nana, a fusion of the Sumero-Babylonian Inanna-Ishtar with a local deity, in her Kushan form with the local (Zoroastrian) Harakhvati Aredvi Sura Anahita. Such syncretism was common among Kušan deities. She was an important patron deity in the Kushan Empire and the most important deity worshipped by Emperor Kaniška (c. 127-150 A.D.).
