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LOT 1712
Western Asiatic Glass Scaraboid Stamp Seal Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/8 - 3/4 in. (11.9 grams total, 11-19 mm).
Including advancing lion, leaping stags and other types; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
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LOT 1712
Western Asiatic Glass Scaraboid Stamp Seal Collection
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Western Asiatic Moss Agate Cylinder Seal with Farming Scene
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
With frieze depicting two male figures in profile, one wearing a short and one a long skirt, both harvesting a wheat field; a horned quadruple animal between the men; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.22 grams, 17 mm
London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent. -
Mesopotamian Alabaster Bowl
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £444
With flat rim and four projecting lugs; band of incised concentric rings to the rim and shoulder; curving sidewall to a narrow flat base. 503 grams, 13.2 cm wide
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; by descent to the current owner.
Vessels of this typology were used mainly as mortars for crushing legumes, cereals, fruit, spices, the bare minimum needed for preparing daily food, but also for pharmaceutical products and for painting, for mixing colours and ointments. -
Western Asiatic Agate and Gold Bead Necklace
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £194
Composed of oblate, biconical and barrel-shaped beads with four granulated beads, restrung with a modern clasp. 56 grams, 52.5 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
