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LOT 1250
Western Asiatic Haematite Cylinder Seal with Figures
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 in. (2.13 grams, 15 mm).
With frieze of standing figures, fronds, vases, scrolls, birds and other items. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.030.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 567, 573, for type.
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LOT 1250
Western Asiatic Haematite Cylinder Seal with Figures
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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Large Neo-Assyrian Stone Cylinder Seal
Early 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,210
With figural frieze between two borders of guilloche ornament: central hero-figure with axe in one raised hand, the other gripping the foreleg of a winged rampant gryphon, with recumbent goat at his feet; behind, radiant sun above a monkey sitting on the rump of a horse with a second gryphon attacking; opposed rampant ibexes flanking a tree; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 65.7 grams, 44 mm
From the property of late Mr SM, London, UK, 1970-1990s, thence by descent. 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 Decorated Bronze Ring Group
Circa 1st millennium A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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UK private collection before 2000. On the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Vase
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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David Gold and his brother were famous for setting up the first clothes shop in Carnaby Street and dressed the famous in the swinging 1960s, making Carnaby Street famous.