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LOT 1094
Western Asiatic Bronze Bracelet with Beast Head Terminals
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/2 in. (10.5 grams, 63 mm).
Slender D-section shank with opposed beast-head finials. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.
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LOT 1094
Western Asiatic Bronze Bracelet with Beast Head Terminals
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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Western Asiatic Medical Instrument Group
Circa 1st millennium A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Comprising: a pair of tweezers; two looped needles; a spoon; an awl with long stem; a probe; and a spatula. 52 grams total, 6.2-14 cm
UK private collection before 2000. On the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Kernos
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Three drum-shaped ceramic vessels each with a flared rim and flat underside, connected by spurs at the equator; painted linear motifs to the mouths, shoulders and sidewalls. 350 grams, 13 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
In the typology of ancient Greek pottery, the kernos (κέρνος or κέρχνος, plural kernoi) was a stone tray to which were attached several small vessels for holding offerings. Its unusual design is described in literary sources, which also list the ritual ingredients it might contain. The kernos was used primarily in the cults of Demeter and Kore, and of Cybele and Attis. -
Western Asiatic Stone and Other Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £33
Restrung designer necklace with two central feature beads; composed of graduated beads of various types of stone, glass and shell. 19.6 grams, 42 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.
