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LOT 1404
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/8 - 7 1/2 in. (221 grams total, 5.3-19.2 cm).
Comprising fourteen tanged arrowheads, including some barbed types. [14]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. for similar arrowheads Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff, nos. 396, 398-400, 407, 416; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, nos.441, 463, 467, 469.
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LOT 1404
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Western Asiatic Silver Ring with Heart-Shaped Bezel
Circa 17th-18th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Keeled hoop with a raised boss at the base, raised heart-shaped bezel with nielloed decoration. 10.59 grams, 23.95 mm overall, 19.62 x 18.08 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16)
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Large Amlash Bronze Spouted Libation Vessel
Circa 1200-1000 B.C.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,667
One of the largest known examples, comprising a thin-walled body and flaring foot, a separately made long spout rivetted to the body; the U-shaped spout resembling the beak of a bird with stylised linear feather detailing to the gracefully curving neck, eleven domed rivets to the edges; the base of the foot with concentric circle decoration. 735 grams, 46 cm
Believed to have been acquired in the 1960s-1970s. From the collection of Mr Jay Gluck (1927–2000) and Mrs Sumi Hiramoto Gluck. Malter Galleries Inc., Auction 80, The Gluck Collection of Ancient Art, 7 April 2002, no.54. Alexander Ancient Art, Netherlands. Private collection, London, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13314-257665.
Jay Gluck (1927–2000) was an American author, art historian, and orientalist who spent much of his life in Japan and the wider Asia-Pacific region. A passionate collector and scholar of Asian art and culture, he is perhaps best known for his landmark publication Japan Inside Out (1964), and later A Survey of Persian Handicrafts (1977), co-authored with his wife Sumi Hiramoto Gluck, a Japanese-born artist and cultural collaborator who shared his deep engagement with Eastern art traditions. Together, the Glucks assembled a distinguished collection reflecting their combined expertise and decades of firsthand engagement with the arts of Asia and the ancient world. Items from their collection are held with great regard for the couple's scholarly rigour and the depth of provenance they represent. -
Western Asiatic Pottery Vessel
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Slender cylindrical body with tubular neck and a strap handle to the rear. 200 grams, 18.7 cm
From an important specialist collection, London, UK, 1990s.
