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LOT 1171
Western Asiatic Bone Cylinder Seal with Chariot
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/4 in. (2.3 grams, 19 mm).
With incuse frieze of a horse in profile pulling a chariot with driver and large spoked wheel, small standing figure before the horse's chest; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s-2000s.
From an important London, UK, collection.
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Persian Framed Watercolour Painting Group
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Framed and glazed and displaying polychrome figural scenes bordered by flowering plants and panels of script: one depicting a tea(?) ceremony set in a landscape featuring blossoming trees and birds; a prince or other figure seated on a bolster, in a landscape featuring a brook and blossoming trees, surrounded by attendants. 932 grams total, 31 x 21.5 cm each
Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990. -
Canaanite Bronze Warrior God with Raised Arm
Early 2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £625
Standing on a columnar base and wearing a waist-belt and crossed baldrics. 97 grams, 12.1 cm
Acquired in Paris and London, 1970s. From a collection of Canaanite gods in bronze, from the collection of a London, UK, gentleman. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Neo-Assyrian Bronze Pazuzu Head Pendant
Circa 800 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Columnar in form and plano-convex in section with discoid base and grotesque mask. 4.82 grams, 26 mm
From a collection of a late London, UK, collector, 1980s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
