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LOT 1328
Proto-Sumerian Stone Stamp Seal with Two Animals
CIRCA 3000 B.C.
1 1/8in. (17 grams, 30 mm).
Plano-convex stamp seal with design of two crouching quadrupeds placed tête-bêche.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
The motifs have been created using a drill, hence the rounded appearance.
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Sassanian Zoomorphic Stone Stamp Seal
3rd-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Plano-convex in form and drilled for suspension; a regardant quadruped with shaggy mane running left engraved to the base. 16.8 grams, 24 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Western Asiatic Decorated Dish with Animal Feet
12th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
With low sidewall and flat everted rim, three radiating feet to the underside, each a quadruped with lowered head; sidewall with band of low-relief roundels each containing a perching bird in profile; rim with knotwork and guilloche panels interrupted by roundels; inner face of the bowl with low-relief band of roundels containing profile birds, hounds and other animals, surrounding a scene depicting a huntsman on horseback with billowing cape, a hound running beside the horse's legs and a bird perching above the horse's head, second hound crouching above the horse's rump. 1.15 kg, 18 cm diameter
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. Property of a London gentleman. -
Proto-Sumerian Stone Stamp Seal with Two Animals
Circa 3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Plano-convex stamp seal with design of two crouching quadrupeds placed tête-bêche. 17 grams, 30 mm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
The motifs have been created using a drill, hence the rounded appearance.
