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LOT 1307
Western Asiatic and Other Terracotta Idol Fragment Group
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 3 7/8 in. (507 grams total, 45-98 mm).
Including anthropomorphic figures, heads and other items, some on display bases. [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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LOT 1307
Western Asiatic and Other Terracotta Idol Fragment Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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Western Asiatic Gold and Garnet Pendant
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Lozengiform cell with applied loops to reverse, inset garnet cloison. 0.46 grams, 10 mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s. -
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Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Jar
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
With rounded profile, low foot and rounded everted rim to the mouth, painted horizontal bands to the shoulder enclosing a frieze of zebus. 819 grams, 18 cm
Acquired 1990s-2000s. From the late David Gold (d.2015) collection of pottery.
David Gold and his brother were famous for setting up the first clothes shop in Carnaby Street and dressed the famous in the swinging 1960s, making Carnaby Street famous. -
Mesopotamian Terracotta Cuneiform School Exercise Tablet
Circa 1950-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side. 250 grams, 10.3 cm
From a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Such scribal tablets are always of this round shape. Type IV tablets, also known as 'lentils', are circular tablets containing one or a few lines of a composition written out once by the teacher and then a second time by the student, either underneath (typical of Nippur tablets), or on the reverse. This would appear to be an example of the former.
