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LOT 1317
Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group
3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5/8 - 3/4 in. (14.4 grams total, 15-19 mm).
Comprising: a dark brown steatite seal with linear motifs; a white limestone seal with a wave motif; a black steatite seal with a diabolo-shaped striped pattern; a hematite seal with two worship scenes, four figures and a small offering table; a white limestone seal with linear motifs and figures; supplied with museum-quality impressions. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
Accompanied by previous typed catalogue slips with collection nos.8, 20, 21, 37, and one handwritten.
Cf. seals with similar patterns in Buchanan, B., Early Near Eastern Seals in the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Yale and London, 1981, nos.147-152,205.
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LOT 1317
Western Asiatic Stone Cylinder Seal Group
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Comprising fourteen tanged arrowheads, including some barbed types. 221 grams total, 5.3-19.2 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Mesopotamian Steatite Bowl with Animals and Palm Trees
3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £10,000 - 14,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5,000
Drum-shaped steatite vessel with broad flat rim; low-relief frieze to the outer face: dense vegetation panels with hatched treetrunks and fronds, resting quadrupeds, each with the legs folded beneath the body. 5.3 kg, 24.5 cm wide
Acquired by a Swiss family in the mid-1980s to late 1990s, thence by descent. Private collection, Switzerland, since the late 1990s. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13026-246787.
In Mesopotamia ancient stone-carvers produced a variety of vessels from soft soapstone (steatite) and pale yellow alabaster, along with jewellery. They include cylindrical boxes, cups, high open-rim vases and a few globular jars. Among it the most prominent products were the cups with tall, slender stalks, apparently intended for religious purposes. The repertoire of motifs of the ‘Intercultural Style’ includes vegetal, architectural, and abstract or naturalistic representations of people and animals, depicted in a carved and inlaid technique. -
Western Asiatic Cream Glass and Other Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of small oblate and other beads interspersed with larger discoid and rectangular beads, the central feature composed of larger beads, restrung. 18 grams, 29 cm
Acquired in the 1990s. Ex London, UK, collection.
