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LOT 0855
Western Asiatic Bronze Bird Seal Matrix with Cross and Pellets
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/8 in. (23.6 grams, 36 mm wide).
The handle formed as a stylised standing bird, possibly a vulture, with large almond-shaped eyes and curved beak, large striated wings with a loop behind the neck; the rectangular matrix with a cross motif and a pellet to each quadrant.
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in the 1990s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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LOT 0855
Western Asiatic Bronze Bird Seal Matrix with Cross and Pellets
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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Mesopotamian Alabaster Disc Necklace Bead Group
Circa 4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Composed of restrung lentoid-section disc beads. 38.5 grams, 46 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Western Asiatic Artefact Group
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Composed of bone, stone and ceramic objects: a fragmentary alabastron; a lion head stamp; a possible amulet of axehead form showing carved detailing; bone implement; the lower half of a carved bone figure, and other items. 449 grams total, 3.9-12.5 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private collection since 1998. -
Western Asiatic Stone and Other Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £20
Restrung; composed of beads of various shapes and shades of cream, light blue and grey. 10.1 grams, 24 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.
