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LOT 0911
Western Asiatic Silver Magic Ring
LATE 19TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (27.54 grams, 45.36 mm overall, 20.62 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V 1/2, USA 10 3/4, Europe 24.4, Japan 23)).
Broad hoop with stamped star, crescent and other motifs; heater-shaped plaque with incised grid, each cell filled with an Arabic numeral or other symbol; chamfered transverse panel above and arcade to the rounded end. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceLondon, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
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LOT 0911
Western Asiatic Silver Magic Ring
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Western Asiatic Haematite Cylinder Seal with Presentation Scene
Circa 2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £222
With frieze depicting a a seated figure holding a vessel in one extended hand, a star, a leaping dog, a nude female facing, two advancing attendants; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.57 grams, 10 mm
From an important London, UK, collection, 1970-1990. 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. -
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Western Asiatic Gold Necklace with Agate Beads
3000-2800 B.C.Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5,000
Restrung necklace of agate beads and flat leaf-shaped gold plaques with oblate carnelian spacers. 163 grams, 80 cm long
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Important North West London collection. Accompanied by a copy of a French cultural passport no.229806. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11968-210482. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Multi-Spouted Oil Lamp
Circa 10th-12th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With hollow-formed bulbous body, three radiating nozzles each with a leaf-shaped lip, central filler-hole with hinge for a lid (absent), ellipsoid rod handle to the rear with bird-shaped thumb-pad; band of low-relief pseudo-text to the discus. 257 grams, 12.6 cm
Ex old English collection. London art market, pre 2000. Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
