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LOT 1246
Western Asiatic Bronze Bowl
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
7 5/8 in. (415 grams, 19.5 cm).
Raised from a single sheet with rounded base and slightly inturned walls. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collections, 1990s-2000s.
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.
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Western Asiatic Banded Agate Bead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,500
Discoid in plan and pierced transversely with later D-shaped later gold cap to each end; mounted on a custom-made stand. 88 grams total, 84 mm wide including stand
Private collection, acquired on the UK art market, 2000. Private collection, Switzerland. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12877-241681. 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. -
Old Babylonian Terracotta Female Anthropomorphic Jug Handle
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Stylised female; body roughly rectangular in section with a D-shaped 'foot' projecting backwards and a 'headdress' with flat top and concave rear; face formed with two ears, slender, high brow, angular nose, thin closed eyelids, pursed lips and two domed breasts, pubic area and female genitals below expressed using shallow incised lines. 100 grams, 10.2 cm
Fine condition.
Ex collection of a deceased London gentleman; 1970-1999. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. 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. -
Western Asiatic Glass Bead Necklace String
Circa 1st millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £260
Composed of mainly large coral pink-coloured oblate beads; restrung. 190 grams, 48 cm
Ex collection of a late London gentleman, 1970-1990s. 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.
