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LOT 1261
Western Asiatic Schist Votive Offering Table
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
8 1/2 in. (2.05 kg, 21.7 cm wide).
Discoid in plan with basal ring and shallow dished face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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LOT 1261
Western Asiatic Schist Votive Offering Table
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Qajar Period Decorated Bowl
19th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Spun bronze bowl with everted rim, dense low-relief decoration of tendrils and interlace with quatrefoil panels each with a kneeling figure. 195 grams, 11.9 cm wide
Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990. -
Western Asiatic Stone Macehead
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Tubular in form with tapering profile and collar above the socket. 455 grams, 82 mm
Ex London, UK, gentleman's collection, 1990s. -
Islamic Leather-Bound Manuscript Juz' from the Qur'an by Turkan bin Ahmad
1153 A.H. (1740 A.D.)Estimate: £3,500 - 4,500 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,750
Rebound as a hardback with full leather binding, gold block border to covers and central arabesque foliage panel; 56 laid-paper pages expertly conserved, usage wear to edges repaired and restored, with drypoint lineation; title page with header block of calligraphic thuluth script reserved against a polychrome field with decorative foliage scrolls and blocks of colour; four lines of black script below; second page with similar header block, six lines of text with black and red diacritics and floral embellishments; rest with typically nine lines of text with red and black diacritics, floral motifs with liquid gold pointing; marginal notes and concentric roundel motifs with rosette to the centre and tulip motif above; page 54 with two lines of footnotes. 954 grams, 30.4 x 38 cm
From an important family collection started in the late 1950s. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12279-220401.
The text is a juz' (chapter or internal division) from the Qur'an, the Surah Maryam (of Mary) to the Surah Al-Anbya (of the Prophets), Books 19 to 21.
