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LOT 0222
Western Asiatic Steatite Vessel with Lions
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 in. (273 grams, 85 mm).
With frieze of crouching lions in profile, each with sockets to the flanks to accept coloured inserts (absent); chipped rim repaired.
Provenancewith Surena Gallery, 1999.
Private collection, Europe.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate dated 20th April 2004.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12405-226712.
Cf. Aruz, J. ed., Art Of The First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, p.326, for similar.
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LOT 0222
Western Asiatic Steatite Vessel with Lions
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
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Akkadian Lapis Lazuli Master of Animals Type Cylinder Seal
2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £600 - 800 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £325
With incuse design including an advancing human figure and two rampant stags; old collector's tag. 4.19 grams, 18 mm
Ex 'S' collection, London, UK. 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. -
Mixed Ancient Necklace Bead Group
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £416
Comprising variously shaped beads in lapis lazuli, glass and faience, including some large tabular and amuletic beads. 78 grams total, 2-27 mm
From a bead collection formed in the 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Stone Idol and Other Artefact Group
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £104
Including phallus, heads, fusiform bead and other items, some on a ceramic base. 586 grams total, 48-94 mm including stand
From 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.
