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LOT 1484
Stone Age Egyptian Flint Adze
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 450,000-280,000 B.C.
4 1/2 in. (206 grams, 11.3 cm).
Ellipsoid in plan with rounded cutting edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Egypt.
From a collection formed during the 1970s-1980s and acquired on the British art market.
By descent to the current owner in 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
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Stone Age Flint Scraper
Neolithic Period, 8500-6500 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cordate in plan with cortex to upper face. 69 grams, 67 mm
Found in Southampton, 1997. Private collection, London. -
Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, circa 6000-4500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Lentoid in section, tapering from a rounded butt to a broad curved edge. 381 grams, 13.3 cm
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.BA201; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Large Stone Age Standing Goddess Idol
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
Tall with rounded profile, stub arms and head without facial detailing, vestigial legs; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 1.04 kg total, 23 cm high 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 search certificate number no.12352-223252.
Most scholars consider these as symbols of the fertility cult and as 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.
