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LOT 1365
Western Asiatic Glass and Silver Bead Necklace
1ST MILLENNIUM A.D. AND LATER
22 5/8 in. (94 grams, 57.5 cm).
Restrung, composed of brown oblate Indian glass beads with silver melon beads between; garnet and blue glass spool-shaped bead finials. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s.
Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman.
Ex property of a Californian, USA, collector.
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Sumerian Black Stone Face Amulet
Uruk/Jemdet Nasr Period, circa 3500-2900 B.C. or laterEstimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £110
Carved in the half-round with large eyes and ears; drilled depression above the head and beneath the chin. 4.6 grams, 19 mm
From the 'S' collection, acquired 1970-1990s. Accompanied by a description from Peter Gert Van der Veen, senior lecturer of Levantine Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz. 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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3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
An irregular fragment with two prepared faces: obverse, incised grid with five rows of impressed cuneiform text; reverse, smoothed face with two parallel incised lines, polished surface. 146 grams, 84 mm
London, UK, art market, 1980s. From the collection of G.M.R.H., London, UK. -
Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Jar
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Globular in profile with trumpet-shaped neck and mouth, circumferential painted bands and roundels. 1.41 kg, 23 cm
From the collection of a London, UK, gentleman, 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.
