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LOT 1170
Western Asiatic Mamluk Style Copper Handled Calligraphic Vessel
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/8 in. (945 grams, 18 cm wide).
Squat and with a low foot, broad carinated mouth; raised rim with brackets supporting a strap handle; dense knotwork and arcaded borders, rosettes and tendrils.
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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LOT 1170
Western Asiatic Mamluk Style Copper Handled Calligraphic Vessel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
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Opening Bid: £200
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UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London, UK. -
Ottoman Qu'ran Painted Gilt Miniature Leaf Pair
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Each a rectangular leaf with inked frame enclosing blue and liquid gold calligraphic text; outside the frame, two decorative discs with text to the centre, radiating spikes and spurs to the rim. 37 grams total, 35 x 25.5 cm each
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Western Asiatic Bronze Bull Rider
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £333
Showing a man on a standing bull, grabbing the hair of a captive with his right hand. 84 grams, 51 mm high
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 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.
The statuette can represent the god storm Hazor, a storm deity with lunar traits. The association between a bull and storm deities is well known on Anatolian sealings from 20th-19th century B.C. The portrayal of a god standing on a bull in conjunction with lunar symbols derived from Old Babylonian cult, where the bull was connected with the Moon as a goddess, and continued in the Near East in association with the god Hazor, identified with El, head of the Canaanite pantheon.
