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LOT 1092
Western Asiatic Painted Terracotta Jar
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 in. (819 grams, 18 cm).
With rounded profile, low foot and rounded everted rim to the mouth, painted horizontal bands to the shoulder enclosing a frieze of zebus. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-2000s.
From the late David Gold (d.2015) collection of pottery.
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.
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Discoid in plan and lentoid in section, bearing cuneiform scribal work in large characters on one side; repaired. 269 grams, 10 cm
From a specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members and dispersed in 1988 in London and Geneva.
Such scribal tablets are always of this round shape. Type IV tablets, also known as 'lentils', are circular tablets containing one or a few lines of a composition written out once by the teacher and then a second time by the student, either underneath (typical of Nippur tablets), or on the reverse. This would appear to be an example of the former. -
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Opening Bid: £1,500
Sturdy bronze penannular bracelet with C-section shank and ram-head detailing to the finials, inlaid shell(?) beads for the nostrils. 620 grams, 10.4 cm
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Western Asiatic Bronze Amuletic Bead
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
One side engraved with two opposing figures engaged in a fight with swords; the opposite side with geometric motifs; pierced longitudinally. 6.18 grams, 13 mm
From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva.
