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LOT 1274
Western Asiatic Orange Jasper Cylinder Seal with Animals
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (4.6 grams, 24 mm).
With incised frieze of birds and animals in a landscape, guilloche borders above and below. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.015.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 607, for type.
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LOT 1274
Western Asiatic Orange Jasper Cylinder Seal with Animals
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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8th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
With bands to the joints, collar to the neck and loop. 29 grams, 46 mm
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection. Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
Pendants in the form of animals, mostly goats or mouflons, but also horses or other equids, are quite common among the corpus of the Luristan pendants. -
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Circa 3rd-2nd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
With suspension loop, rectangular-section shank, recurved lower body with ribbed cross-section, acorn finial. 61 grams, 10.9 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
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17th-13th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Formed as two bronze rods twisted about their own axis and looped at the ends, knotted forming the centrepiece. 334 grams, 10 cm
Private UK collection. Acquired in the 1980s. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
