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LOT 1226
Western Asiatic Lapis Lazuli Necklace Bead Collection
20TH CENTURY A.D. AND EARLIER
1/8 - 3/4 in. (89 grams total, 2-21 mm).
Comprising a large quantity of beads including oblate seed beads, large tubular, facetted and discoid beads, and one shaped as a bird. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Bactrian Tubular Carnelian Bead
Late 1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Exceptional slender tubular bead with tapering shape towards either end, carinated around the centre 8.6 grams, 93 mm
with Nefer Gallery, 1993. From a European collection formed before 2000. Property of a London gentleman. -
Large Silver Dish with Ibexes
3rd-6th century A.D. or earlierEstimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
A finely hammered bowl, the surface punched with vegetal and zoomorphic decoration comprising standing rams or mouflons enclosed within a circle, spear-shaped leaves separating the figures, low foot; the engraving possibly later. 800 grams, 37 cm wide
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12169-220737.
The plate exhibits a typical hammered form, and was probably reinforced with an organic base. The subject of the decoration, rams or mouflons with the head facing right or left, is a theme found on Sassanid art and is also visible on a decorated silver and gilt vessel of the Sackler Gallery collection (Gunter, Jett, no.21). Decoration in the form of such animal enclosed in a medallion appears in the central exterior roundel of a silver bowl in the Detroit Institute of Arts (Grabar, 1967, p.125, no.41). -
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Man
3rd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Tongue-shaped carved bust reserved on an unworked block; bas-relief facial detailing with long vertical D-section nose, slit mouth and two shallow lentoid eyes; mounted on a custom-made stand. 2.42 kg total, 22.5 cm including stand
with Arte Primitivo, New York. American private collection, New York, before 2000.
