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LOT 0950
Sassanian Highly-Tinned Boat-Shaped Vessel
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY A.D.
8 in. (212 grams, 20.5 cm wide).
Produced using high-tinned bronze; featuring a rounded base and raised from a single sheet of precious metal; cracked.
Provenancewith a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s.
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Western Asiatic Gold Bead Drop Earrings
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
Each composed of a slender penannular hoop with loop below and coiled wire arm suspending decorated gold, polished garnet, pearl and composition beads below; assembled from elements. 9.08 grams total, 87-88 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
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Mesopotamian Pictographic Clay Tablet
Circa 3000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,940
Inscribed on one face with a seven-panelled pictographic grid, with a branch above; the reverse inscribed with a branch and a motif containing two drilled circles. 42 grams, 69 mm
Very fine condition, chipped.
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11335-190939. -
Western Asiatic Blue Glass Bottle
13th-14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
With a tapering cylindrical body and bulbous base, applied trails, scrolls and loop handle; remains of iridescence, repaired. 73.9 grams, 16 cm
London private collection, 1979-1983.
