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LOT 1601
Western Asiatic Single-Handled Flask
12TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 in. (33.59 grams, 72 mm).
With wheel-cut frieze of animals to the body, traces of pigment remaining.
ProvenanceEx Parisian gallery, France, 1980s.
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Western Asiatic Bronze Cage Weight
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £270
Comprising a rectangular basket with two overlapping U-shaped handles, two bull heads resting on the edge of the basket. 198 grams, 74 mm
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Flat Axe
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Trapezoid blade with narrow butt and curved cutting edge, rectangular in cross-section. 264 grams, 18.5 cm
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
This was one of the commonest tool types in the Early and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age, but rarer in the Late Bronze Age. These axes were fixed to a wooden shaft with thongs. -
Mesopotamian Carved Stone Macehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Carved from a mottled stone as a large sphere with a round socket. 484 grams, 73 mm
Acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Private collection, London.
