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Lot 575
Paar "Warwick-Vasen". Bronze, dunkel patiniert. Mehrfach profilierter Stand, umlaufend kanneliert. Darüber gedrückt bauchiger Korpus mit erhaben reliefierten Maskarons und seitlichen Griffen aus verschlungenen, vegetabilen Streben. Nach der berühmten "Warwick-Vase" aus der römischen Antike. Gießerstempel "Sculp. Mec(ani)que A(chi)lle Collas". Frankreich, 2. Hälfte 19. Jh. H. 13,5 cm.
Lot 577
Kleine Barockschatulle. Wohl Nadelholzkorpus mit Maserholzfurnier (Fehlstellen) und Fadeneinlage. Schlüssellochblende und Scharniere aus geprägtem Messingblech, Tragegriff aus Bronze. Originales Schloss mit wohl erg. Schlüssel. Innen braun gelackt (teils berieben). Alters- und Gebrauchsspuren. Wohl Ende 18. Jh. 6x 12x 8,5 cm.
Lot 1362
Tischleuchte, Meissen, einflammig. Auf reich relieffiertem Bronze-Sockelfuß Schaft in Form einer Knoblauchvase aus Porzellan mit blauem Zwiebelmuster. Schwertermarke Meissen, 1850-1924, wohl 1. Wahl (Boden mit Metallplatte überdeckt). Wohl Umbau aus Petroleumlampenfuß. Weiße Stoffpagode. H. 40 bzw. 62 cm.
Lot 1419
Shadakshari Avalokiteshvara. Bronze mit Feuervergoldung, die Haare schwarz gefasst (teils l. berieben). Königlich gekleideter Bodhisattva im Lotossitz auf Lotossockel thronend; das Haupthändepaar vor der Brust in der Geste der Verehrung erhoben, die zusätzlichen Hände li. die Lotosblume und re. das Attribut der Gebetskette haltend. Geschlossene Bodenplatte aus Kupfer. Tibet/Nepal. H. 22 cm.
Lot 1420
Skulptur der Roten Tara. Bronze mit Feuervergoldung. Auf Sockel mit Wolkenornamenten. Sie tanzt im Dakinitanz und zertritt dabei den Asura Rahu (Der, der die Sonne verschlingt). Mit den Händen ihres ersten Armpaares spannt sie einen aus Utpalablüten bestehenden Pfeil in einem ebensolchen Bogen (1 Bogensehne l. besch.), die re. Hand des zweiten Armpaares hält ein Vajra hoch. Hinter ihr gesteckte Flammenmandorla als Symbol der Weisheit. Boden mit Kupferplatte verschlossen. Tibet/Nepal. H. 19 cm.
Lot 1475
Sitzender Vajrapani. Teils vergoldete, teils braun patinierte Bronze. Auf doppeltem Lotosthron sitzender Bodhisattva, in der re. Hand in Brusthöhe Vajra (Diamantszepter), in der li. die Gantha (Glocke) haltend. Die Haare mit ikonographischer Bemalung, das Gesicht mit kalter Vergoldung und Bemalung. Boden mit Kupferplatte verschlossen. Tibet/Nepal. H. 16,5 cm.
Lot 898
Österreichische Nachkriegsmoderne Ernst Fuchs (1930 - 2015 Wien)Venusische Zeichen unter der Haut. Bronze, handziseliert und -patiniert. Auf Edelstahlsteele montiert. 40 x 10 x 6 cm (mit Steele). Auf der Steele mit eingestanzter Signatur, Nummerierung und dem Gießerstempel. - Guter Zustand. Mit charmanter Patina und detailreicher Ziselierung. Eines von 1000 nummerierten Exemplaren.- Guss bei der Kunstgießerei Strassacker, Süßen. - - Die Arbeit wurde im Wachsausschmelzverfahren gegossen. Bronze, hand chiselled and patinated. Mounted on a stainless steel stele. On the steele with incised signature, numbering and the founder's stamp. - Good condition. With charming patina and detailed chasing. - One of 1000 numbered copies. - Cast at the Strassacker art foundry, Süßen. - The work was cast in the lost wax process.
Lot 103
A Roman opaque red glass patella cup Early 1st Century A.D.The ring-footed bowl with rounded base and carinated profile, slightly flared at the rim, 9.4cm diam.Footnotes:Provenance:The Alfred Wolkenberg (d. 1990) Collection, New York. The Alfred Wolkenberg Collection of Ancient Glass, Christie's, London, 9 July 1991, lot 100. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 October 1996, lot 30. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 041), acquired from the above sale. Published: Antiek Glas 2001, video film Allard Pierson Museum of Antiquities, Amsterdam. Exhibited: Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no.03.Allard Pierson Museum of Antiquities, Amsterdam, 'Antiek Glas, de Kunst van Het Vuur', 17 May - 16 September 2001, exhibition no.19.The shape of this cup was a popular early Roman Imperial form that was produced in both opaque coloured glass and mosaic glass. For a similar opaque glass bowl, cf. E.M. Stern, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50 1994, pp.328-9, no.99. See also David Frederick Grose, Early Ancient Glass. Core-formed, rod-formed and cast vessels and objects from the late bronze age to the early roman empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D.50 (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio 1989), no.419. Grose family III.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 14
An Egyptian bronze figure of an Ibis Late Period - Ptolemaic, circa 664-30 B.C.Depicted striding forward on the left leg, the body with incised tail feather details, with sinuous neck and incised curved beak, the eyes inlaid with glass, 10cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Dr. Hans Stenzl (1880 Munich, Germany - 1980 Riehen, Switzerland), acquired in 1960.Dr Stenzl was a research chemist at F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Cie. AG and J.R. Geigy AG; he was the inventor of important pain-relieving and anti-rheumatic medications.He formed his collection of antiquities between 1953-1968. Private collection, London. Inherited by the present owner in 1980.The ibis was sacred to Thoth, the god of wisdom and learning. Such bronze statuettes were popular from the Late Period and have been found in shrines, temples and also alongside mummified ibises.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 18
A Villanovan bronze necklace Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.Composed of a linked chain with ridged tubular beads, nine pendants each elongated with central spherical swelling and two shorter pendants with globular terminals, 51cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Formerly in the collection of Lt. General Augustus Pitt Rivers, (1827-1900).Private collection, France.For an 8th Century bronze disc from Piecenum, Northern Italy, with similar pendants cf. S. Cassani (ed) The Art of the Italic Peoples, 1993, p.141 p.51.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 19
An Archaic Greek bronze lidded pyxis Geometric Period, circa 8th Century B.C.The body of globular form, set on a narrow pedestal foot, with radiating lines emanating from the rim, a pair of 'bird's head' protomes at either side of the rim, the lid with matching protomes, surmounted by a tall cylindrical knop to mirror the foot, 10.5cm high, inclusive of lidFootnotes:Provenance:Private East Coast collection, USA. Ancient/Ethnographic from Around the World, Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, 20 June 2019, lot 18A. Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale. Pyxides such as this, have been found in Samos and Macedonia. Archaeological evidence suggests these were worn as pendants suspended from a long chain and carried precious unguents or other offerings. For further discussion on these bronzes, see J. Bouzek, 'Macedonian Bronzes - 30 Years Later', Folia Archaeologica Balkanica I, 2006, pp.97-109.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 201
A Roman enamelled bronze pyxis Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.Of hexagonal form, decorated with millefiori glass inlays, each side with three bands above and below a central formation of four squares, on three sides the bands alternate between red, white, and blue chequerboard, framing four squares of blue and white chequerboard, on the other three sides, two bands of blue and one of white frame four squares of red and white chequerboard, the top with two concentric bands of inlay, one of white with blue flowers, the other of blue and white chequerboard, set on three ball feet and with three suspension loops, a circular opening at the mouth, 7.2cm high Footnotes:Provenance:L. Grenacs Collection, 1960s.W. Bastiaan Blok Collection, Netherlands.Anonymous Sale; Pierre Bergé Auctioneers, Paris, France, 17 June 2010, lot 258C.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 257), acquired from the above sale.Exhibited:The National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, NL, 'GLASS', 1 June 2020 - 28 February 2021.The use for such high-quality manufactured containers varies between carrying precious unguents, such as perfume or incense, or for use as inkwells. Six other complete pyxides are currently known; one in Cologne in the Römisches Germanisches Museum, another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.47.100.7). The third example was sold in Paris, Drouot 19-20 May 1987, lot 426 and was published in N. Thierry, A propos d'une nouvelle pyxide d'epoque Romaine à décor d'émail millefiori, Antike Kunst Bale, 1962, p.65-68. The fourth was part of the Nelson Bunker and William Herbert Hunt Collection and was published in the exhibition catalogue, Wealth of the Ancient World, no.53, and Sotheby's, June 19, 1990, lot 53. The fifth was sold at Christie's, London, Wednesday, 10 July 1991, lot 129 and is published there, where it is noted to have been found in North-West Essex and is now part of the British Museum Collection (reg. no. 1991,1201.1). The sixth was offered at Bonhams on 29 April 2004, lot 287.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 202
A Greek bronze hydria Circa 6th-5th Century B.C.The ovoid body tapering towards the raised foot decorated with radiating tongues, the two up-turned grooved horizontal handles with circular attachment plates decorated with tongues, the vertical fluted pouring handle with winged siren decorated attachment plate with incised inverted palmette beneath, the overhanging rim edge decorated with a band of ovolo, 41.5cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Brussels.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 May 2003, lot 153.David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 204
A Greek bronze situla Circa 4th Century B.C.The flattened rim punched with a dotted inscription, reading: EPIΣYEIMI, 'belonging to Erisos', a band of tongue decoration beneath the rim, the double bail handles with bud terminals attached to a palmette appliqué on either side, the curved sides tapering to a ring base, 20cm high excluding the handlesFootnotes:Provenance:Art market, France.Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2001, lot 163.David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 207
A Roman bronze figure of Aphrodite 1st-2nd Century A.D.The nude goddess standing with her weight on her proper right leg, her right hand lowered to her sandaled left foot, holding an apple in her left hand, her hair dressed in a top-knot, drawn into a chignon at the back with incised tresses on her shoulders, on a pedestal reel-shaped base, 20.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 26 April 2001, lot 77.The David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 208
A Roman bronze oil lamp Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.The base of the nozzle flanked by a pair of scallop shells, the ring handle surmounted by openwork decoration of a satyr mask surmounted by a scrolling palmette, 17.5cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 June 2002, lot 126.With Jean-David Cahn AG, Basel. David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above on the 16 June 2005.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 211
An Egyptian bronze mirror New Kingdom, circa 1550-1069 BCOf disc form, with tapering tang for attachment to the handle, 16cm highFootnotes:Provenance:A.W. Lawrence (1900-1991) Collection.Arnold Walter Lawrence was professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge in the 1940s. He was the youngest brother of T.E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'.The David Rowse Collection, London. A gift from the above in 1947.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 214
An Egyptian standing bronze figure of Osiris Third Intermediate Period - Late Period circa 1069-525 B.C.The mummiform figure standing with arms crossed, wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt, with incised details of eyebrows, cosmetic eyelines and false beard strap, 25cm excluding the tangFootnotes:Provenance:Charles Haumont Collection, Brussels.With Charles Ede Ltd, London.The David Rowse Collection, London, acquired from the above on the 19 June 2003.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 217
A Luristan bronze mask North West Iran, circa 9th-7th Century B.C.The stylised face pierced around the edges for attachment, with deep-set eyes and a prominent nose with the nostrils pierced, two circular pins remain at the neck, 16.7cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Europe, from the late 1950s onwards.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 1 May 2008, lot 366.Private collection, Belgium, acquired from the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 218
A Luristan bronze Sword Circa 9th-8th Century B.C.The long tapering blade with medial ridge, the grip of square section with eared pommel, 63cm longFootnotes:Provenance:With a gallery in Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich. Private collection, London, acquired from the above circa 1986-87.For a similar sword with eared pommel cf. P. Moorey, Ancient Persian bronzes in the Adam Collection, London 1974, p.58, fig.28.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 24
A Greek bronze figure of Pan Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.The goat-legged god shown dancing with his right hoof raised and arms aloft, wearing a tight-fitting cap, with a well-defined chest and small tail, 11cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Münzen und Medaillen A.G., Auktion XXII, Basel, 13 May 1961, lot 61. Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, The Netherlands, 1961-77, Smeets, no.163.The Smeets Collection of Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 7 November 1977, lot 172.Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York 14 December 1978, lot 265. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London 16 April 2015, lot 118. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.Published:A Private Collection: A Catalogue of The Henri Smeets Collection, Weert, 1975, no.163. For two other similar bronze figures of Pan, cf. O.W. Muscarella, Ancient Art, The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974, nos.25 and 25bis (with reference to the Smeets figure).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 25
An Etruscan bronze figure of a dancing satyr Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.The figure depicted mid-dance, balancing on his proper left leg, his right leg raised, his face tilted upwards, with full beard and long hair, his left arm resting on his hip, his right arm raised to his temple, a short curled tail at the back, 8.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:With Sasson Gallery, Jerusalem, before 2000.Canadian private collection, acquired in 2001.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 7 July 2016, lot 22. Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.While both the Greeks and Etruscans were fond of figures of dancing satyrs, those of the Etruscans tended to be more playful and humorous in their depictions. For other satyrs in dancing positions see, The British Museum, London, acc. no.1905,0710.2, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc.nos.23.160.51i and 1972.118.68.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 26
A pair of Etruscan bronze stamnos handles Circa late 5th-4th Century B.C.With lanceolate handle-plates, each with a face of Silenus depicted within the tapering lower plate, with characteristic long beard and moustache, large exaggerated eyes beneath arching brows, within a foliate border, the upturned handles fluted, details incised, 10.5cm high x 12.5cm wide (2)Footnotes:Provenance:With Byron Zoumboulakis, Geneva.Acquired by the present owner from the above on the 14 June 1996.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 269
Three Egyptian swivel rings with swivel scarabs Early New Kingdom, circa 1550-1400 B.C.Comprising a lapis lazuli and gold ring, the lapis scarab engraved with an ankh and neb sign, the tubular shank bound with wire with spherical terminals to either side of the scarab; a steatite scarab bound in gold and engraved with a repeat scroll motif, with separate 'U' shaped silver shank; and a green glazed steatite scarab, the underside with the cartouche for Thutmosis III, with epithet 'the Lower Egyptian King is established', set on a bronze shank, 2.5cm-2.7cm wide (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Lapis scarab: with Dr. Jan Beekmans (1927 – 2008), Borken. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above October 2001. Steatite scarab: Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) Collection. Anonymous sale; François de Ricqlès, Paris, 29-30 September 1997, lot 324 (part). Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above sale. Green steatite scarab: Fürsten von Hohenzollern Collection, Germany. London art market.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 November 2001, lot 268 (part). Private collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale.Published: C.A.R. Andrews and J. van Dijk (eds), Objects for Eternity: Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, Mainz, 2006, p. 93-95, no. 214 a, d & e.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 27
An Etruscan bronze oinochoe Circa 5th Century B.C. The ovoid tapering body with a short cylindrical neck, the trefoil mouth angled upward with a long chanelled spout, the handle cast separately, the base-plate in the form of a palmette where it joins the body, the top of the handle bifurcating at the rim, each end terminating in a bud, 27cm highFootnotes:Provenance: Private collection, Mr. P. since the 1980s. Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo, Dessins, Tableaux Anciens & XIXE Sècle, Mobilier et Objets d'Art, Archéologie, 27 November 2019, lot 375. Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale.For a similar bronze oinochoe, see the British Museum, London, acc.no.1867,0508.729.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 275
An Egyptian polychrome wood mummy mask Late Third Intermediate - Late Period, 25th-26th Dynasty, circa 747-525 B.C.From the lid of an inner coffin, wearing a broad striped tripartite wig, braided beard with curled tip, and broad collar, the face with full lips rounded at the corners, straight nose, inlaid eyes, the long eyebrows and cosmetic lines inset in bronze, 47cm highFootnotes:Provenance: With Champollion Gallery, 689 Madison Avenue, New York.New York private collection, acquired by the present owner from the above in 1981.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 June 2015, lot 14.Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 2018, lot 4. Private collection, California, acquired at the above sale.For a very similar mask, see the coffin of Horankh in the Dallas Museum of Art (obj. no.1994.184), the eyes and eyebrows inlaid in obsidian, calcite, and bronze.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 34
A large Roman bronze lamp in the form of a foot Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.Lifesize and modelled naturalistically, the hollow right foot wearing an elaborate sandal with the toes resting atop a wick-hole in the shape of voluted horn with an acanthus leaf underneath, the ankle open for oil, a small-looped thumb grip and handle at the back, 36cm longFootnotes:Provenance:With Jean-Phillipe Mariaud de Serres, Paris.Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above in March 2005.The Romans were very fond of making lamps in the shapes of other objects, and feet were one of the most popular. There are examples in museums, such as the British Museum, London, reg.no.1873,0820.159, Museo d'Antichità JJ Winckelmann, Trieste, and the Archaeological Museum of Bologna, though not as large. For further discussion on these types of lamp see S. Loeschcke, Lampen aus Vindonissa, Zurich, 1919, p.161F, pl. XXIII:1084-1085.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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