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LOT 1034
Western Asiatic Bronze Artefact Group
1ST-2ND MILLENNIUM A.D.
1 5/8 - 7 5/8 in. (332 grams total, 4.2-19.5 cm).
Comprising various decorative fittings and other artefacts, including a pierced calligraphic mount. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx old English collection.
London art market, 1980s.
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Western Asiatic Religious Manuscript Page Group
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Group of sixteen paper leaves from a religious treatise, each comprising a block of twenty lines of Naskh script in black in with red sub-headings and highlighting, many framed by a large amount of handwritten marginal notation on various alignments with insertion points and references; probably from North Africa. 89 grams, 22.5 x 14.5 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Mesopotamian Haematite Amulet and Weight Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
One large zoomorphic example in the form of a lion or other animal, numerous cylindrical and oval examples, together with lozengiform, ovoid, plano-convex and coin-shaped forms. 377 grams total, 17-48 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s. From a North London collection. -
Mesopotamian Shale Bead String
4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Restrung; composed mainly of disc-shaped shale beads. 108 grams, 66 cm long
Acquired 1980s-1990s. From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK.
