Antiquities, Islamic & Indian Arts

28 Oct 2022 | UK, London

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Property from a Private Collector, Edinburgh Lots 1-11 A group of flint arrowheads Neolithic - Early Bronze Age, circa 4000-1800 B.C. and later Including examples of leaf-shaped and tanged form, European and other cultures and three Egyptian...

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A Roman fresco fragment Circa 1st Century A.D. The ochre decoration on a cream ground with foliate motifs, 17.3cm x 13.3cm, set into an antique wood and glass display frame dated 1892, which once framed enamelled tiles, 30cm x 31cm Provenance:...

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An Egyptian bronze seated cat Late Period-Ptolemaic, 664-30 B.C. Depicted seated with forepaws together, 5.4cm high, with restorations Provenance: Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021). Acquired from Thompson, Ruddick and Medcalf...

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A group of Roman and later glass vessels 1st Century A.D. and Later, including a bottle with spherical body, tall narrow neck and applied trailing around the body, 10cm high, some cracks; a small Roman bowl with collar rim, part of rim missing, 4cm...

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A group of glass vessels Hellenistic-Roman periods and Later, including a damaged Hellenistic amber glass mammiform bowl, 12.5cm diam; a damaged and restored miniature bottle with white trail decoration around the glass body, 6cm high; a pale blue...

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Three Egyptian glazed faience shabtis Late Dynastic Period, circa 664-332 B.C. Each of typical mummiform holding pick and hoe, with a frontal column of hieroglyphic text, 11cm-11.5cm high (3) Provenance: Property of a private collector, Edinburgh...

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Six Egyptian glazed faience shabtis Third Intermediate-Late Period, 1070-332 B.C. Each of typical mummiform, including a miniature pale blue glazed shabti with illegible text and wig painted in added umber, 6.7cm high; five shabtis depicted holding...

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Four Roman glass vessels, circa 2nd-4th Century A.D. Including a small pale green glass skillet, 13.8cm long, 7.2cm diam of bowl; a green glass jug with, the body with diagonal moulded rib decoration, an applied band of trailing around the neck and...

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An Egyptian green glazed faience ram's head terminal Ptolemaic Period, circa 300-30 B.C. With curved horns and delineated eyes, 5cm long; a Romano-Egyptian blue glazed faience figure of Anubis, recumbent on an integral base, the tail swept around...

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A group of Antiquities comprising four small Egyptian alabaster vessels Middle Kingdom-Ptolemaic Period, circa 1750-30 B.C., including a cylindrical-bodied ointment jar with disc lid, 5.6cm high; a bulbous jar with narrow neck, tapering to the...

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Five terracotta and marble antiquities, circa 4th Century B.C. – 2nd Century A.D., including a Greek terracotta circular object, the front moulded with a round face with well delineated facial features framed by a head of curly hair, two piercings...

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A small Neolithic buffware pottery bowl, Persia, 3rd millenium BC, of deep form, the exterior decorated in red with hatched bands to rim and panels to side, with solid triangles and circles, 9.5cm. diam. x 5cm. high Provenance: Private UK Collection

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An Iranian pottery deep bowl Circa 4th-3rd Millennium B.C. the swollen body with red slip, sloping in toward the rim, decorated in black with a series of vertical lines, each with a central rope-twist pattern, 14cm. high x 18.5cm. diam. Provenance:...

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A buffware pottery vessel with hatched decoration, Persia, 3rd millenium BC, on a raised foot,with small handle either side, 26cm. diam. x 20cm. high

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A buffware pottery vessel with hatched decoration, Persia, 3rd millenium BC, widening at the waist, with everted rim, decorated with four bands of horizontal stripes and hatched and geometric designs, 26cm. diam. x 20cm. high Provenance: Private UK...

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A Greek terracotta fragmentary head of Demeter Circa 5th Century B.C. From a protome, the hair swept back beneath her polos, 13cm high, and a Roman pale blue and white marbled glass bottle with spherical body and tapering cylindrical neck, circa...

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A large group of mainly Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean beads and amulets Late 5th Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium A.D. and Later Including fourteen shell, calcite and white stone amulets: a standing horned bull with concentric circle...

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A large group of Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean beads and amulets Late 5th Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium A.D. and Later Including four Western Asiatic mainly shell disc rings with circle designs, once inlaid, 7.4cm max diam, one damaged;...

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Two Eastern Mediterranean 'eye' bead necklaces Circa 5th-3rd Century B.C. and Later A necklace composed of polychrome spherical 'eye' beads of varying size, 53.5cm; another of white beads with blue eyes, 46.5cm and a string of sixteen 'eye' beads...

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A Roman banded glass beaded necklace Circa 1st-4th Century A.D. Composed of barrel-shaped beads imitating banded agate, interspersed with modern spherical beads, re-strung, 51.5cm long Provenance: Acquired at the Archaeological Shop, Tel Aviv...

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Two mostly Roman mosaic glass bead necklaces and an eye bead necklace 1st Century B.C.-A.D. and Later A necklace including five Roman spherical face beads, interspersed with blue glass beads and later gold spacer beads; another necklace with some...

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Two Roman mosaic glass bead necklaces Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. and Later A necklace composed of eight spherical millefiori beads, interspersed with seven faceted tubular mosaic glass beads and plain blue glass bead spacers, 43cm; and another...

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A miscellaneous group of bronze jewellery and artefacts 1st Millennium B.C. – 1st Millennium A.D. and Later Including eight rings with disc, oval or square bezel, others with the remains of intaglios; a bronze penannular bracelet, the hoop formed...

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Seven strings of hardstone, glass, calcite and glazed faience beads Circa 1st Millennium B.C. – Islamic, some modern Including a string of calcite and white stone beads of spherical, cylindrical and barrel beads; three strings with glass beads...

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An Egyptian blue glazed faience lotus flower necklace Amarna Period, mid-14th Century B.C. Composed of twelve lotus flower amulets, each amulet of blue-green faience, with moulded decoration on one side and suspension loop at the top and the...

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Eight Syrian-Palestinian pottery oil lamps Circa 5th-7th Century A.D Six with extended nozzles, sloping shoulders and worn moulded relief, one with a cross on the underside of the base, another with line and dot motifs, and two of circular form...

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A group of Near Eastern jewellery and stamp seals 2nd Millennium B.C. – 7th Century A.D. Including two ribbed penannular hooped gold earrings, with a copper alloy core, mid-late 2nd Millennium B.C., 28mm diam, one in two parts; a black stone...

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The Anglo-Saxon Ozengell Hoard An important collection of approximately 1,700 Anglo-Saxon artefacts Circa 6th-7th Century A.D. Including: Jewellery and glass: Including: a gilt-silver disc brooch, the centre set with a white stone or paste disc...

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Four Roman glass vessels Circa 1st-4th Century A.D. Two glass unguentaria, one almost clear with an old ink inscribed label on one side, 10.3cm high; another in dark blue glass, with oval body cut-off across the cylindrical neck, an old ink...

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Six Egyptian alabaster vessels Middle Kingdom – New Kingdom, circa 2046-1069 B.C. Comprising a kohl jar with disc rim, 4.6cm high; an alabastron with twin vestigial handles, 8.4cm high; a small piriform jar with flat rim, 3.4cm high; an elongated...

30: Six Egyptian alabaster vessels... Estimate: Login

A miscellaneous group of bronze, silver, pottery and stone objects Various Periods, 8th Century B.C. - Modern Including an Italic bow brooch, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., 4.7cm long; two Medusa head appliques, 2.3cm; three bronze rings; a silver...

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Two black glazed pottery vessels Possibly Greek circa 4th Century B.C. One an olpe, the oval body moulded with vertical ribbing, on a low ring base, 12.5cm high, an old ink inscribed label on the underside of the base; the other of squat spherical...

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A miscellaneous group of antiquities Circa 7th Century B.C. – 2nd Century A.D. and Later A Cypriot Iron Age fragmentary horseman figure with beak-like facial features and applied fillet, circa 650-400 B.C.; A Hellenistic phalera moulded with the...

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A large decorative bronze geometric Greek style horse, with trumpet-shaped mouth, forward curving ears and long tail extending to the openwork base, 17.2cm high. Provenance: Anthony Powell (1935-2021) Stylistically based on, and probably cast from...

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An Egyptian bronze fragmentary figure of Osiris Late Period, circa 664-525 B.C Wearing an atef crown, holding a crook and flail, 7cm high Provenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021).

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A Hellenistic fragmentary bronze hollow-backed head of a male Circa 3rd-1st Century B.C With thick wavy hair, possibly representing Alexander the Great, 2.8cm high Provenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021).

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An Egyptian wax mummiform figure of one of the Four Sons of Horus, baboon headed Hapy, 3rd Intermediate Period, 21st-22nd Dynasty, 1069-715 B.C., 8.2cm high, some losses to the wax revealing the mud core. Provenance: The Estate of costume designer...

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A Luristan bronze mirror North-West Iran, circa 8th-7th Century B.C formed from a single sheet of metal, the broad handle with repousse decoration of a central lozenge pattern and bosses, the handle terminal in the form of three discs, now...

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A miscellaneous group of Egyptian faience amulets, pendants and beads, New Kingdom – Late Period, circa 1400 – 332 B.C. including New Kingdom jewellery elements of petals, flowers, recumbent sphinx, falcon, Bes, poppy seed pods, the head of Hathor...

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Two Greek terracotta hollow-backed relief fragments, each of a bearded male banqueteer wearing tall palmette headdress with frontal rosette, circa 4th Century B.C., 12cm high and 8.7cm high (2) Provenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony...

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Two Syrian terracotta Astarte figures, with peg-shaped legs, incised girdle and applied necklace, with bird-like facial features, applied circular eyes and elaborate headdress, circa 2100-1650 B.C., and five Syrian terracotta idols, one with...

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A bronze oval medallion After The Antique With the bust of a Roman lady of high birth, with ornately bound hair, with lettering around the edge, 5.7cm, ink inscribed on the reverse ‘Woodhouse Coll, 1907’. Provenance: The Estate of costume designer...

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A Cypriot Iron Age Bichrome Ware amphora with pinched-in lip, the body decorated with two groups of encircling banded decoration, circa 750-475 B.C., 26cm high Provenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021)

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A buff pottery vessel, the sloping shoulders decorated in added umber with four pairs of aquatic birds in flight, divided by two vertical bands of feather patterning and two vertical bands of lozenges within lines, bordered above by encircling...

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A pottery vessel with tapering body, looped handles ei at the shoulder, Not Ancient, 19.8cm Provenance: Private London collection formed between the 1980s-1990s.

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An Apulian red-figure bell krater, with bacchanalian scene, side (a) with two naked satyrs, three females and an amphora; side (b) with three himation clad figures their backs to the viewer, split palmettes under each handle, meander along the...

47: An Apulian red-figure bell... Estimate: Login

Three Greek style pottery vessels, including an amphora with dancing figures, 26cm; a jar with everted rim with dancing Dionysus holding a drinking horn, 16.5cm and a squat lekythos with two facing cockerels, 11.1cm, Not Ancient (3) Provenance:...

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An Apulian black glazed kylix, the tondo with impressed linked palmette design, 29.5cm diam and a black glazed pottey bowl on a raised ring base with tooled band around the exterior, the tondo decorated with impressed decoration of palmettes...

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Three decorative black glazed vessels, including two kraters, with moulded decoration, 16.9cm. high and a jar with moulded decoration, 14.7cm high (3) Provenance: Private London collection formed between the 1980s-1990s.

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Two black glazed pottery bowls, each on a raised ring base, the tondo decorated with impressed decoration, on the first with a central palmette, surrounded by interlinking palmettes, 18.4cm diam, 6.4cm high, the second with an arrangement of...

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A Bronze Age buff pottery vessel Circa 1500-1200 B.C. With bulbous tapering body, short neck and narrow mouth, an incised band encircling the neck, 10.2cm high Provenance: Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from ‘Tenmoins Du Temps...

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A Phoenician glass bead necklace Circa 6th-2nd Century B.C. Composed of sixty spherical and squat spherical beads, including some ‘eye’ beads and marvered glass beads, others plain, restrung with a modern clasp Provenance: Accompanied by a...

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A Byzantine pale bluish-green glass hanging lamp, 6th-7th century, with three loop suspension handles to shoulder, 11cm. high

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A Roman glass cup, 2nd-4th century AD, with compressed sides, on a perspex plinth, cup 7.5cm high

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A heavily-weathered late Roman glass beaker, 4th century A.D., decorated with a horizontal row of 17 applied and marvered blue blobs arranged between abraded lines, 6.5cm high, 7.5cm diam Provenance: Property of a Lady, purchased in 1987 from the...

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Two Italic bronze fibulae, circa 8th century B.C. , 10cm. diam. and 10.2cm. diam. (2) Provenance: Swiss private collection, Dr R. H. (1922-2007)

57: Two Italic bronze fibulae... Estimate: Login

Two Roman glass hemispherical bowls, one cracked, Circa 4th Century A.D. Thin-walled with pronounced omphalos, 5.5cm high max (2) Provenance: UK auction, acquired in May 2018; previously acquired in the late 19th century by a UK missionary and...

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A group of pottery vessels, Circa 9th -3rd Century B.C. Including a Cypriot Iron Age vessel, set on a raised circular base, the spherical body with decoration fired brick red, consisting of encircling bands and a central cross-hatched motif...

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A Roman bronze phallic amulet, 1st-2nd Century A.D., and two Byzantine bronze birds, with central male genitalia, with manus finca and phallus, a large suspension loop above, a small loop below, 7.5cm wide; and two Byzantine bronze birds with...

60: A Roman bronze phallic amulet... Estimate: Login

A modern re-strung tiered necklace, composed of a lower tier of Egyptian blue glazed faience cylindrical mummy beads, Late Dynastic Period; cylindrical carnelian beads, with metal component mountings, and a blue glazed faience scarab set into a...

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An Etruscan terracotta right foot, Circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C. Either votive or from statue, with well modelled toes, 22cm long Provenance: UK auction, acquired in September 2017; previously part of the Gross collection, acquired at a UK auction...

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A Roman glass inlaid gold bracelet, formed of connecting elements of squares and roundels, inlaid with coloured glass, 14cm. x 2.6cm. high Provenance: Private collection UK since 1963

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A group of gold domed elements, an agate and a group of red glass and gold elements, possibly Roman (75) Private Collection UK since 1963

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A collection of Roman glass vessels Circa 1st-4th Century A.D., including a small Roman bowl with collar rim on a pad base, 4.2cm high; a cylindrical beaker with pronounced rib below the rim and above the base, 9.9cm high; a spherical bottle with...

65: A collection of Roman glass... Estimate: Login

Two iridescent Roman glass vessels Circa 4th Century A.D. and Later, a globular glass bottle with tapering cylindrical neck and funnel rim, 18.5cm high, circa 4th Century A.D., and a heavy olive green glass cylindrical deep bowl with high omphalos...

66: Two iridescent Roman glass... Estimate: Login

Two ancient glass vessels, Roman – Islamic Periods, A Roman pale blue-green glass ovoid bottle with funnel neck, set on a folded ring base, circa 4th-5th Century A.D., 16cm high and a pale green glass bowl with sloping sides, central omphalos and...

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A bronze socketed sickle, Late Bronze Age, circa 1200-800 B.C., with hollow shaft, 18cm high and a Urartian bronze belt fragment, repousse decorated with leaping sphinxes, human-headed creatures with long tails, bulls and lions, all facing left...

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A Roman-style bronze oil lamp with elaborate open work handle of a palmette with dolphins, the lid cast with the head of Silenus, 18cm long and 14.8cm high Provenance: From the collection of the Late George Csonka (1916-2000)

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A Villanovan impasto ware urn, 8th Century B.C., the bulbous body decorated on each side with a central conical protrusion, surrounded by raised concentric ring motifs, surmounted by a slightly tapering columnar neck, with a flat circular rim...

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A collection of antiquities and later artefacts Circa 4th Century B.C. and Later Including a Greek pottery lebes gamikos, the reel-shaped body decorated with a wave pattern, fired orange on buff ground, the shoulder with radiating strokes, small...

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