Nishapur Glazed Bowl with Ibex

Comprising a penannular body with segmented ring-and-dot design. 69 grams, 65 mm



UK private collection before 2000. On the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

With eight projecting vertical flanges and a circular shaft hole. 310 grams, 67 mm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

In the Caucasus, the combat mace was very popular throughout the late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The maces could have spiked bronze knobs or often less corrugated, or round, knobs which could also be effectively used.

With a thin-walled body and flaring foot, a separately made long spout rivetted to the body; the U-shaped spout resembling the beak of a bird with stylised linear feather detailing to the gracefully curving neck, eleven domed rivets to the edges; the base of the foot with concentric circle decoration. 736 grams, 47 cm



Acquired in the 1960s. From the collection of Mr Jay Gluck (1927-2000) & Mrs Sumi Hiramoto Gluck. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12061-214190.

Jay Gluck was an American archaeologist and specialist in the history of Persian art. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 in Archaeology and Middle Eastern Studies. In 1966 he became director of the Asia Institute of the Pahlavi University in Iran. He is also well known for republishing the work of Arthur Upham Pope, A Survey of Persian Art.