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LOT 0844
Syro-Hittite Terracotta Statuette of a Deity
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 3/4 in. (182 grams total, 14.5cm including stand).
Modelled with a tapering rectangular body, head with pinched features facing forwards, hands raised to chest with palms placed flat against the chest, shown wearing a neck ornament and with an elaborate hair style arranged at the back of the head; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx North Yorkshire collection from the 1990s.
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Mesopotamian Clay Cuneiform Tablet Fragment
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Bearing text to one face; the tablet roughly semi-circular in plan with a plano-convex cross-section. 48.9 grams, 43 mm
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. -
Western Asiatic Gold Earring Group
Late 1st millennium B.C.-early 1st millennium A.D.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £194
Comprising seven gold hoop earrings comprising: an example composed of a coiled wire and bead bezel; one with hollow-formed capsule-shaped bulb decorated with a medial twisted wire collar; a crescentic hoop with granulated pyramids to the lower edge and one loop; hollow-formed crescentic earring with coiled collars; a flat-section crescent with hook-and-eye closure; a hollow-formed crescent-shaped earring with expanded central section and remains of hinge closure; hoop with single granulations to lower body, triangular plaque below, dangle comprising gold granulated beads and pearl and facetted blue bead, possibly of stone; including fragmentary examples. 6.69 grams total, 10-27 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Ceramic Dish with Star
Late 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
With raised flange rim and deep wall, painted design of concentric rings to the inner rim and inner face, central star motif with radiating arms of varying lengths. 620 grams, 22.2 cm wide
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970s-1990s. Ex Pars Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK. From a specialist collection of pottery.