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LOT 0190
Pre-Achaemenid Silver Phiale Mesomphalos
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C. OR EARLIER
11 5/8 in. (904 grams, 29.5 cm wide).
A large silver dish with carinated everted rim, repoussé central boss and piriform panels, fluted surround with lotus plant motif; some restoration. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an important North London collection, formed 1980.
UK private collection.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11641-197739.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 47.100.84 and 55.122.1, for broadly similar bowls.
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Western Asiatic Gold Earring Group
Late 1st millennium B.C.-early 1st millennium A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
A mixed group of seven gold hoop earrings comprising: an example composed of a coiled wire and bead bezel; one with hollow-formed capsule-shaped bulb decorated with a medial twisted wire collar; a crescentic hoop with granulated pyramids to the lower edge and one loop; hollow-formed crescentic earring with coiled collars; a flat-section crescent with hook-and-eye closure; a hollow-formed crescent-shaped earring with expanded central section and remains of hinge closure; hoop with single granulations to lower body, triangular plaque below, dangle comprising gold granulated beads and pearl and facetted blue bead, possibly of stone; including fragmentary examples. 6.69 grams total, 10-27 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
Babylonian Ur Vessel and Cuneiform Tablet Relating to Beer for Mercenaries in the Service of Babylon
Circa 2000-1500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
A group of two ceramic artefacts: an Ur miniature pot of carinated form with everted lip, dated c.2000 B.C.; a roughly rectangular tablet bearing cuneiform text to both principal faces and to each side edge, a memo relating to an expenditure of beer for mercenaries in garrison in the service of Babylon (20th year Abi-ešuh 1711-1684 BC): '2 jars of 15 liters for the rations of the troop of the Cassites. Contribution of Ibnatum.' 100 grams total, 36-43 mm
From an old UK collection. From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent. Accompanied by two identification display cards. Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. -
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Framed Mughal Watercolour Painting
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
A painting of a mother and child seated on grass amongst flowers, wispy tree growing behind, gilt flecks to the woman's clothes, jewellery, the tree and flowers, gilt border; set in a reveal within a glazed wooden frame. 838 grams, 37 x 29 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.
