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LOT 1520
Sasanian High Tin Bronze Bowl
3RD-7TH CENTURY A.D.
7 3/4 in. (313 grams, 19.5 cm).
Broad with slightly inturned rim, concentric circles to base.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
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Paper Qur'an Page
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With thirteen lines of Naskh script text to each side, red interlinear diacritics, rosettes, and handwritten note at bottom. 11 grams, 34.4 x 21.5 cm
From the private collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK, 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. -
Proto-Sumerian Pictographic Terracotta Tablet
Uruk III, circa 3200-3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Lentoid in section with incised and impressed design to one face; trapezoidal figure with bowl(?) and incised cross, two rows of impressed D-shapes; probably a tally token. 73.3 grams, 81 mm
From an important collection formed before 1988. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 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. -
Achaemenid Decorated Bronze Phiale Mesomphalos
5th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
A broad carinated bowl with radiating repoussé lotus-leaf panels, central domed roundel. 157 grams, 11.5 cm
with a London, UK gallery 1971-early 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.
