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LOT 1014
Western Asiatic Rock Crystal Bead Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3/8 - 2 5/8 in. (76 grams total, 9-66 mm).
Of various types including: a large coin-shaped bead; facetted beads; tear-shaped bead; amorphous beads and others. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Robin Symes Gallery, pre 1999.
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Western Asiatic Gold Earring Group
Late 1st millennium B.C.-early 1st millennium A.D.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £194
Comprising seven gold hoop earrings comprising: an example composed of a coiled wire and bead bezel; one with hollow-formed capsule-shaped bulb decorated with a medial twisted wire collar; a crescentic hoop with granulated pyramids to the lower edge and one loop; hollow-formed crescentic earring with coiled collars; a flat-section crescent with hook-and-eye closure; a hollow-formed crescent-shaped earring with expanded central section and remains of hinge closure; hoop with single granulations to lower body, triangular plaque below, dangle comprising gold granulated beads and pearl and facetted blue bead, possibly of stone; including fragmentary examples. 6.69 grams total, 10-27 mm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1970-2010. Collection of a late Japanese gentleman. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Lion Padlock
Circa 13th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £48
Standing with open mouth and engraved annular eyes; voids to the chest and rump, triangular tab and hole to the rear of the head, hasp absent. 71.7 grams, 70 mm
Very fine condition.
Acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. Ex property of a Suffolk collector. -
Holy Land Trans Jordanian Ceramic Bowl
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Bulbous bodied and decorated with a band of pricked dashes around the rim. 1.6 kg, 21 cm wide
From an important specialist collection formed in London, UK, before 1988.
