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LOT 0868
Western Asiatic Bronze and Silver Artefact Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 - 7 7/8 in. (509 grams total, 1.7-20 cm).
Including a ewer handle with thumb-pad, coiled spring, tubular fitting with beast-head detail and other items. [11, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection, before 1980.
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Nabataean Pottery Basket
1st century B.C.-1st century A.D.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Ceramic calathus with carination below the rim, fluted strap handle, white painted stripes to the inner rim; very rare. 567 grams, 17.5 cm high
From a family collection, London, pre 1988. -
Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet
Early 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Fragment of a pillow-shaped tablet with impressed text to one brod face, one edge of the reverse. 29.3 grams, 38 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. -
Large Bactrian Pottery Chalice
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Pedestal shape with flared foot and slender shank supporting a wide dish with shallow recess; the upper face with panels of painted net-decoration and other geometric designs. 1.41 kg, 26.4 cm high
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
