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LOT 1306
Western Asiatic Terracotta Figurine of a Bird
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 5/8 in. (66 grams, 91 mm).
Rendered hollow as an aryballos with a funnel-shaped body on a stemmed foot; lateral projecting wings, forked tail feathers, bent neck with pouring hole; head absent, one wing reattached; old collector's label 'N2187' to base. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London art market, 2002.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00103133.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Sumerian Green Stone Cylinder Seal
Uruk, 3rd millennium B.C.Estimate: £550 - 750 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £300
With incuse frieze of three horizontal lines of stylised seated figures, pierced for suspension. 17.5 grams, 21 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. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Western Asiatic Shell Bracelet
Neolithic, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Annular panel cut from a large mollusc shell, domed in section. 107 grams, 12.2 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Western Asiatic Mixed Glass Bead Necklace String
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £46
Composed of mainly annular and oblate beads, large melon bead to the centre; restrung. 24.8 grams, 36.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
