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LOT 1526
Stone Age Polished Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 - 1 3/4 in. (165 grams total, 25-44 mm).
Comprising mainly D-shaped axeheads with a straight cutting edge. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising three flakes: a small triangular arrowhead, a lanceolate blade and a piriform blade; small worked piriform handaxe with indistinct inked inscription to the base 'Langdon's C[...]' (perhaps Langdon's Cliff, Dover, Kent). 210 grams total, 4.8-11 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021. -
Stone Age Blade Tools from Southern France including La Gravette
Upper Palaeolithic Period, circa 40,000-20,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Marked with old collector's inked titles 'La Lionne, quartier de Loiselay. Sorgues (Vaucluse)', La Gravette 10.67', 'Vircoulon'; and one indistinct. 48 grams total, 6.5-11.8 cm
Found Southern France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Polished Tortoise Idol
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £169
Plano-convex in section with tapering body and radiating limbs. 756 grams, 14.5 cm
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.
The sculptures represent farm animals in the Neolithic period. Animal figurines seem to be a recurrent feature in the earlier Neolithic settlements, in the Balkans and in the Levant. It is significant that in the Neolithic Mediterranean, the animals depicted seem to be domesticated, thus suggesting that its reference points were within the confines of the community.
