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LOT 0957
Western Asiatic Painted Storage Jar
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 in. (1.07 kg, 18 cm wide).
A carinated ceramic jar with everted rim and convex base, painted frieze to the shoulder displaying alternating pyramids and dot-in-ring motifs, possibly representing a landscape. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s.
English private collection.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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Amlash Handled Jar
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £279
An unusual ceramic vessel with carinated body, cylindrical neck, everted rim, forked handle with finial at the apex, base composed of six applied pellets and cones, the handle and body decorated with pellets and incised chevrons. 670 grams, 27 cm
Fine condition, handle restored.
Acquired 1970s-2010. Ex important Japanese collection. -
Western Asiatic Cylinder Seal with Figural Scene
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £800 - 1,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £450
A cylinder seal of black stone with rounded edges, incuse frieze depicting a standing female in slim dress, a tree with radiating fruit and leaves, second similar female extending an arm over a small figure with a spear, winged sun-disc (faravahar) above. 33.8 grams, 39 mm
From an important family collection. 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 Necklace String
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
A group of black and white jasper cylindrical beads with irregular quartz discs and a large oval-shaped white jasper bead with double collar at either end, restrung on a string. 36.86 grams, 24 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired before 1990. Central London gallery. Private collection of a North West London lady.
