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LOT 1507
Stone Age 'Central France' Chestnut-Brown Knapped Flint Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 70,000-60,000 YEARS B.P.
4 3/4 in. (240 grams, 12.2 cm).
Cordate in plan with finely worked edges. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in Central France.
From an old French collection formed in the early 1900s.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
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LOT 1507
Stone Age 'Central France' Chestnut-Brown Knapped Flint Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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Stone Age Terracotta Figure Head
Circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Biconvex in profile with applied eyes and mouth, mounted on a custom-made stand. 78 grams total including stand, 36 mm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Twydall Knapped Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Triangular-section blade; with an old inked inscription: '2.SS.1252.A / Twydall'. 46 grams, 91 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Polished Goddess Idol
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,240
With rounded profile, stub arms and head without facial detailing, vestigial legs; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 635 grams, 15 cm (686 grams total, 16.5 cm including stand)
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12087-217184.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the cult of fertility and evidence of the existence of a matriarchal society as a form of organisation of the earliest human society. The people of the Stone Age may have considered figures such as this to represent women and mothers with their life-giving powers, or as depictions of the ancestors.
