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LOT 0889
Western Asiatic Banded Yellow Agate Pendant Group
20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 - 2 3/4 in. (127 grams total, 54-71 mm).
Each polished and pierced for suspension; including two flat-section, cartouche-shaped pendant plaques and three octagonal-section bars with conical terminals. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon collection since the 1980s.
Property of a Canadian family.
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Large Western Asiatic Agate Bead
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Polished with an amber-coloured appearance; drilled for suspension. 12.9 grams, 43 mm
From a family collection formed 1900-1950; by descent circa 1980. -
Old Sumerian Clay Cuneiform Tablet Fragment
Circa 3400 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470
Bearing an administrative text. 66 grams, 63 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. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples. -
Western Asiatic Mixed Stone and Glass Necklace Bead Collection
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £364
Comprising a quantity of small beads, in mixed shapes, colours and materials; each pierced for stringing. 99 grams total, 2-21 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
