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LOT 1521
Seljuk Moulded Glass Calligraphic Gem
CIRCA 12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 in. (0.68 grams, 17 mm).
Plano-convex in section with low-relief Kufic script legend. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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LOT 1521
Seljuk Moulded Glass Calligraphic Gem
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Sumerian Proto-Cuneiform Tablet with Symbols
Jemdet Nasr Period, Uruk III, 3200-3000 B.C.Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £2,000
Pillow-shaped with incised grid to the broad faces, dense cuneiform pictographic text in the columns with impressed pellet numerals. 45.6 grams, 63 mm
Percy Barnevik, Sweden. Private collection, UK, acquired June 2000. with Sam Fogg, London. Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2015. Accompanied by a copy of Professor Lambert’s notes and two-page cataloguing report. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13429-259930.
Various collections of cuneiform tablets form a corpus of texts mainly of administrative nature, from the Uruk III and Ur III periods. The proto-cuneiform, as a system of proto-writing, emerged in Mesopotamia ca.3500-3200 BC, during the Uruk period. -
Sumerian Shell Bead Necklace
Circa 2500-2000 B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £15
Group of tapering bell-shaped beads cut from the centre of a helical shell. 41.8 grams, 38 cm long
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Luristan Bronze Socketted Spearhead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a leaf-shaped blade with a raised midrib extending to a tubular socket with four raised circumferential ribs. 136 grams, 22.6 cm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1960s. From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s.
