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LOT 1242
Ottoman Ottoman Large Format Illuminated 'The Spider' Quran Manuscript Page
EARLY 19TH CENTURY A.D.
16 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. (15 grams, 42.2 x 25.7 cm).
One page from Surah 29, 'Ankabut' ('The Spider'), seven handwritten lines of Nastaliq(?) script, floral border with gold paint on blue.
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market.
Scottish private collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1242
Ottoman Ottoman Large Format Illuminated 'The Spider' Quran Manuscript Page
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Opening Bid: £100
With ovate blade, central rib and curved shoulders, the lozenge-section long shaft tapering towards the end, rectangular tang with bent tip. 267 grams, 34.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
The spearhead represents a slender variant of type 1 of Khorasani classification. The type 1 was characterised by the bent tang. It was the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. -
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1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £190
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Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Spouted Vessel
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £175
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From the collection of a North London, UK, gentleman, pre 1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
