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Lot 926
A George III mahogany bow front chest on chest. With oval lacquered brass handles, ebony banding and raised on splay bracket supports, 1m 77cm high, 1m 11cm wide, 52cm deep. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Damage to both side mouldings on the base chest. Veneer chips and cracks to the sides. Wear to the bracket supports.
Lot 109
A Bohemian green ground glass vase, the top half with white enamel lace work and gilt decoration, together with a cranberry glass Bohemian vase the trumpet bow on a faceted foot, the whole with gilt highlights CONDITION REPORTS Vase has several large chips to the top rim as well as several smaller ships, heavy scratching especially to the interior, wear to the gilding throughout, several large chips to the base and some chipping to the edge of the foot. The green vase has some wear to the gilding and enamelled decoration including an area which has gone a purple colour. Surface scratching etc - both items have general wear and tear conducive with age and use to include dirt, surface scratching, some small chips, knocks etc as well as various internal firing faults etc - please see images for further details
Lot 272
Continental Silver Gilt Filigree Cameo Necklace and Bracelet, the necklace, in a Art Nouveau style, comprises a trefoil pendant with drop, both being set with an oval portrait cameo, suspended from a chain of interlinked heart shaped pieces, fastened with a bolt ring clasp; 16.25 inches wearing length plus 1.75 inch drop; marked 800; the bracelet comprising three oval portrait cameos with filigree frames, set between bow shaped, similar pieces, fastened with a tongue and box clasp with safety chain; marked 900 (bracelet requires small repairs)
Lot 32
Ionia, Ephesos, silver octobol, c. 340-330 BC, bust of Artemis right, quiver and bow at shoulder, rev., Ε – Φ, forepart of stag right with head looking back at palm tree; in right field, bee and magistrate’s name [ΗΓ]ΗΣΙΠΟΛΙΣ, 5.04g, die axis 12.00, virtually as struck with lustrous surfaces, one of the finest known. References: SNG von Aulock 1841; SNG Kayhan 263-5. Provenance: Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection; Sotheby’s, New York, 19 June 1991, lot 342; DNW, London, 22 June 2011, lot 1037.
Lot 27
Mysia, Lampsakos, silver tetradrachm, c. 200-150 BC, bearded head of Priapos right, hair wreathed with ivy and in long locks down side of neck, rev., ΛΑΜΨΑ – ΚΗΝΩΝ, Apollo Kitharoidos standing right, holding lyre; to left, monogram; to right, bow and arrow; below, magistrate’s names: ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ - ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ – [Μ]ΙΚΑΛΟΥ, 16.45g, die axis 12.00, light toning, extremely fine and very rare. References: Baldwin pl. VIII, 1, same dies; Gaebler 70, pl. II, 42, same dies; SNG France 1229, same dies. Provenance: Münzen und Medaillen 41, Basel, 18 June 1970, lot 149; Bank Leu 48, Zurich, 10 May 1989, lot 220; Giessener Münzhandlung 46, Munich, 30 October 1989, lot 220; Prospero Collection, The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 475. Note: The origin of Priapos is ill-defined and versions give him a variety of gods as parents; however, “at Lampsakos [where] they believe in Priapos more than anyone; they say he is the son of Dionysos and Aphrodite.” (Paus. ix.31.2). On this rare series of tetradrachms his archaized head is in dual identity with his father. The cult of Priapos began to spread to Greece following the death of Alexander. An unusual aspect of the present coin is the magistrate’s name (Demetrios) appearing alongside not only that of his father (Demetrios) but also his grandfather (Mikalos).
Lot 10
Island off Thrace, Thasos, gold drachm, c. 380 BC, bearded head of Dionysos left, crowned with ivy, rev., ΘΑΣΙΟΝ, Herakles wearing lion-skin headdress and chiton, in attitude of kneeling to right, shooting with bow; in right field, Κ, 3.93g, die axis 3.00, virtually as struck, very rare. References: Hunt collection, part 3, Sotheby’s, 4 December 1990, lot 33, same dies; Münzen und Medaillen 41, 1970, 49, same dies; Hess Leu 45, 1970, 107, same dies; West pl. 4, 30 var. (with Θ on reverse). Provenance: Gerald Hoberman Collection; DNW, London, 27 September 2011, lot 2005 (where catalogued with incorrect earlier provenances). Note: Although Herodotus’s (2.44 and 6.47) suggestion that the Thasian gold mines were first worked by the Phoenicians had long been questioned, recent scholarship seems to support his account (Graham, p. 88). The reverse type of a kneeling archaic figure of Herakles as an archer, is “one of the very few instances in classical times when we can be quite sure that a coin design is taken from large-scale art.” (Jenkins, 1972, p. 114). The sculpture which served as the model, now in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul (Mendel no. 518), was discovered in 1866 in the gate of the city’s west wall; it was also adopted as the motif on amphora seals of Thasian wine. The “famous vineyards of Thasos” are reason enough to understand the head of Dionysos on the coin’s obverse.
Lot 24
Mysa, Kyzikos, electrum stater, c. 400 BC, Persian archer seated right, examining arrow; tunny fish below, rev., quadripartite incuse square, 15.96g, good very fine and extremely rare. References: von Fritze 166, pl. V, 14 = Traité II 2639, pl. 174, 14 (example in St. Petersburg); K. Regling, Der grieschische Goldschatz von Prinkipo, ZfN 41, 1931, 32 and pl. 2 (example in Istanbul). Provenance: Ars Classica XVI, Geneva, 3 July 1933, lot 1351; Kunstfreund (Charles Gillet) Collection, Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, Zurich, 28 May 1974, lot 209; Bank Leu 57, Zurich, 25 May 1993, lot 98; DNW, London, 27 September 2011, lot 2008. Note: Evidently one of only four known examples (as mentioned in the Bank Leu catalogue of 1993), this extremely rare type depicts with great clarity the archer wearing Persian headdress (kidaris), long robe (chiton) and close-fitting trousers (anaxyrides) seated with feet crossed and legs drawn up to support his arms while examining an arrow and with (traces of) a bow hanging from his left wrist. Over his shoulder is a surcoat, the right arm of which hangs empty. Commentators have suggested that the figure could be a representation of the Persian satrap Pharnabazos whose portrait appears on very rare Kyzicene tetradrachms of this period (as Kraay/Hirmer 718) and the image of a Persian satrap as archer can be seen on the later coinage of Datames at Tarsus (as Traité pl. 109, 4-7).
Lot 337
˜A JAPANESE IVORY OKIMONO OF AN ARCHER, MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY carved standing with a heron under one arm and leaning on a sword, a quiver of arrows on his back, a boy with a basket of produce at his feet, mounted on a lacquered wood canted square base, stained detail overall height 23cm, damage to bow
Lot 314
A JAPANESE MINIATURE INLAID CHEST OF DRAWERS, KOMAI COMPANY, 20TH CENTURY bow front and back, the two short between two long drawers decorated in silver and gilt nunomezogan with Mount Fuji, birds and flowers, the top with a ho-o bird, the sides and back with aoi mon against a ground of paulownia leaves, gilt signature to base 5cm high
Lot 181
˜A POWDER FLASK, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN, INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY wood clad in cloth, ivory finials, together with Two Carved Wood Architectural Elements, Kerala, 19th century, one depicting a figure with bow and arrow, the other a mythical bird, each with traces of pigment 19.5cm long (powder flask); 33.5, 23.5cm (wood items) (3) Provenance: Henry Brownrigg, London (1943-2016)
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