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LOT 1369
Western Asiatic Bronze Ladle
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
3 3/4 - 12 5/8 in. (289 grams total, 9.5-32 cm).
Comprising a deep D-shaped bowl. slender handle with ribbed detailing, curved finial with transverse segmentation and standing bovine figure finial detached. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Sumerian Bone Cylinder Seal
2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
With frieze in two registers depicting running animals, facing figure with arms raised and other items. 4.42 grams, 24 mm
Ex 'S' collection, London, UK. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Gold Ring with Epigraphic Inscription
13th-14th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Carinated hoop with panel to each shoulder, ellipsoid bezel with inscription in cursive script. 1.87 grams, 15.87 mm overall, 14.62 mm internal diameter (approximate size British G, USA 3 1/4, Europe 4.92, Japan 4)
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Decorated Dish with Animal Feet
12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
With low sidewall and flat everted rim, three radiating feet to the underside, each a quadruped with lowered head; sidewall with band of low-relief roundels each containing a perching bird in profile; rim with knotwork and guilloche panels interrupted by roundels; inner face of the bowl with low-relief band of roundels containing profile birds, hounds and other animals, surrounding a scene depicting a huntsman on horseback with billowing cape, a hound running beside the horse's legs and a bird perching above the horse's head, second hound crouching above the horse's rump. 1.15 kg, 18 cm diameter
Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. Property of a London gentleman.
