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LOT 0223
Western Asiatic Bronze Openwork Lamp Stand
CIRCA 12TH CENTURY A.D.
20 5/8 in. (1.9 kg, 52.5 cm high).
Hollow-formed with openwork bulb to each end and narrow columnar shaft with openwork and calligraphic detailing in low relief; discoid platter with raised rim and pierced lobes, central knotwork motif; tripod base with openwork dome and low-relief scrollwork; repaired.
Provenancewith a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. Fehérvári, G., Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, item 97, for type.
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LOT 0223
Western Asiatic Bronze Openwork Lamp Stand
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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Western Asiatic Bronze Artefact Group
Circa 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Comprising a tinned and gently carinated bowl with inverted rim; bracelet with raised rib to the expanded bezel and coiled arms; tinned piriform jar or vase; a cup with D-section medial band, integral foot and collector's identification label to base; spool-shaped fitting with decorative notching; bowl with foot and everted rim, symbol to interior base; bowl with lotiform base and broad everted rim; bowl with scalloped rim. 1.6 kg total, 4.3-17 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection. -
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Western Asiatic Finely-Painted Ceramic Pitcher
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
The body with convex sidewall and rounded base, trumpet-shaped neck with everted rim, short spout to the shoulder and strap handle to the rear; painted decoration including linear bands and hatched panels. 1.2 kg, 19 cm high
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970s-1990s. Ex Rabi Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK. From a specialist collection of pottery. -
Bactrian Stone Bowl with Snakes
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £400
Carved with squat, vertical sidewall and everted rim, frieze of entwined snakes with opposed heads between raised bands around the body. 881 grams, 17 cm
Acquired from a French gallery in 1982; thence by descent.
The stone is likely chlorite.
