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LOT 0106
Scythian Bronze Horse Cheekpiece Pair Each with Three Dragons
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
4 1/4 - 4 1/2 in. (183 grams total, 10.7-11.5 cm).
Matched pair, each comprising a round-section shank with two pierced bulbs and a perpendicular flange formed as three openwork profile beast-heads on long necks, each biting its neighbour. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.
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LOT 0106
Scythian Bronze Horse Cheekpiece Pair Each with Three Dragons
Estimate £800 - 1,000€930 - 1,160 (for guidance only)$1,080 - 1,350 (for guidance only)
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Greek Red Figure Ware Squat Lekythos with the Goddess Nike
Attic, circa 440-420 B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rounded body with narrow neck and leaf-shaped mouth, strap handle to the rear, the body showing a flying goddess Nike holding a patera; restoration to the neck and the handle. 137 grams, 12.1 cm
Acquired Hastings, London Road, July 1958, for £2.00. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.46. -
Greek Bronze Patera Handle in the form of a Naked Youth
5th century B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Formed as a nude kouros, hands raised to touch the elaborate palmette sitting atop the boy's head, his face framed by a thick fringe, his hair, held by a band, falling down his back in serpentine waves; the figure standing with legs held close together, broken at mid-shin; a palmette-shaped fixing plate projecting at the back with two holes for rivets to attach to the broad, shallow dish which would have been used for libations. 178 grams total, handle: 17.3 cm high, 23.5 cm high including stand
Private collection UK (N.E.), acquired prior to 1970, and thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13550-263433.
Anthropomorphic handles with images of young naked boys connected with animals were widespread and used for mirrors. The object, in particular, is part of the group of mirrors and paterae with standing youths (male and female, probably symbolising athletes) and nude female mirror caryatids (Mitten-Doeringer, 1968, figs.87-88) serving as vertical handles. -
Greek Gold Amuletic Bird
5th-1st century B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £667
Comprising a sheet-gold hollow-formed avian figure with applied filigree detailing, and a separate beaked head; accompanied by a rectangular blue glass fragment. 0.57 grams, bird: 19 mm
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent.
