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LOT 1151
Western Asiatic Turquoise Inlaid Gold Stud
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (1.38 grams, 12 mm).
Discoid stud with low sidewall, two loops to underside, three cabochons to the upper face with interstitial cloisons.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a late Japanese gentleman, 1970s onwards.
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LOT 1151
Western Asiatic Turquoise Inlaid Gold Stud
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Mesopotamian Banded Agate Cylinder Seal
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
With incuse rearing ibex and altar; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.35 grams, 22.5 mm
From the 'S' collection, acquired 1970-1990s. The collection was seen and studied by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993. -
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Western Asiatic Glass and Silver Bead Necklace
1st millennium A.D. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung, composed of brown oblate Indian glass beads with silver melon beads between; garnet and blue glass spool-shaped bead finials. 94 grams, 57.5 cm
Previously acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. Ex property of a London, UK, gentleman. Ex property of a Californian, USA, collector. -
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Woman
6th-4th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105
Large female head with angular nose with straight ridge, rounded cheeks and chin, large sockets for inlaid eyes with rounded depressions in the centre of the eyes, grooved eyebrows and outlines of the eyes, the tapering neck long and cylindrical, the back left roughly tooled; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 3.66 kg total, 31.4 cm including stand
UK collection, 1990s. Acquired on the UK art market, before 2000. Private collection, Mr M.V., a London-based businessman.
This finely carved calcite-alabaster head was originally set within a stela and inscribed with the name of the deceased. Six hundred of these funerary stelae were discovered in localities like Mārib, and other examples were later found during the excavations of the Awwam temple cemetery.
