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LOT 1371
Western Asiatic Glass Vessel Collection
CIRCA 12TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
3 5/8 - 5 1/2 in. (130 grams total, 9.2-14.2 cm).
Including four miniature amphorae each with a ribbed collar to the neck, and a fifth with sealing wax at the mouth. [5]
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
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LOT 1371
Western Asiatic Glass Vessel Collection
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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Western Asiatic Silver Drinking Bowl
2nd-6th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £180
Broad and squat in profile with repoussé basal ring; incised ring below the rim to the outer face. 169 grams, 16 cm
Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Private collection, London, UK. -
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Cappadocian Stone Cylinder Seal with Court Scene
Circa 2000-1900 B.C.Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £540
Frieze including two standing attendants in flounced floor-length robes before a laden table and a seated figure in similar robes, the seated figure drinking from a vessel through a drinking pipe, behind him a stag with a small animal between its legs, a border of pellets above and below. 21.9 grams, 40 mm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Black Stone Bowl with Bulls
1st millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £338
Hemispherical in profile with low ring foot, segmented sidewall with frieze of standing beasts, hatched panels; remains of lateral handle, undulating band below the rim, short C-section spout; chipped and partly absent. 344 grams, 10.6 cm
Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.
