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LOT 0193
South Arabian Bronze Bowl with Hunting Scene and Inscription
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (277 grams, 15.5 cm).
Broad and squat with impressed guilloche below the inner rim, repoussé frieze with fleeing ibex attacked by a gryphon and kneeling archer to the rear; central rosette; seven incised characters to inner face and four to outer face.
ProvenanceThe Saleh Collection, Germany, formed 1972.
Private collection, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12809-241324.
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.
Cf. Overlaet, B. & Yule, P., A late pre-Islamic bowl with Levantine-inspired decoration from ed-Dur (UAE) in Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, vol.29, no.2, 2018, especially figs.2-3,7.
FootnotesThe presence of decorated bronze bowls during the later Pre-Islamic period, mainly in the territories of the modern Emirates, is well documented. Many decorated bowls and bowl fragments were discovered at Mleiha, one or more possible fragments were found at ed-Dur and a single bowl comes from a Pre-Islamic period C tomb in Dibba. They are also similar to the so-called Phoenician - or more correctly Levantine - bowls produced in the 9th-early 7th century B.C. They combine local Levantine elements with imagery borrowed from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and local Arabian themes, such as camel and horse riding, often composed in radial zones.
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LOT 0193
South Arabian Bronze Bowl with Hunting Scene and Inscription
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000€8,120 - 10,440 (for guidance only)$9,450 - 12,150 (for guidance only)
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2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
With large horns, loop behind the neck, raised collars to the neck and body. 50 grams, 78 mm
Fine condition.
Property of a Mayfair lady; formerly in an important London collection formed since 1965. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. 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. -
Graeco-Persian Bronze Vessel
2nd century B.C.-1st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
With broad base and carination below the rim. 365 grams, 13.2 cm wide
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990-2000. 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. -
Western Asiatic White Stone and Shell Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £20
Composed of tubular beads interspersed with smaller oblate and other beads; restrung to a Y-shape with a drop-shaped pendant. 14.7 grams, 30 cm
From the London, UK, art market in the 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.
