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LOT 1502
Stone Age 'Langdale Tuff' Green Stone Axe Head
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4000 YEARS B.P.
4 1/2 in. (312 grams, 11.5 cm).
Polished cordate form with narrow butt; green stone from Cumbria. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market between 1994-2004.
From the collection of a Stirlingshire, UK, gentleman.
Acquired on the UK art market.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
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Gigantic Stone Age 'Mauritania' Classic Teardrop-Shaped Handaxe
Acheulean Period, 1,000,000-500,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Biconvex in section with unusual patination, regular profile, some cortex remaining. 1.36 kg, 22.8 cm
Found Mauritania, North-West Africa. Part of an old French collection formed in the 1930s-1940s. Acquired on the French art market. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
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. -
Stone Age French Grand-Pressigny 'Prismatic Core' Knapped Flint Core
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Carefully knapped with the scars where several large flakes were struck off, to form a beautifully prepared prismatic core which differs in the way it was produced to a more typical livre-de-beurre. 296 grams, 10 cm
Found France. 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.
