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Lot 389
Small Chinese bronze Ju vessel, oriental brass pot with handle and similar stemmed pot. Chinese Export tea caddy, octagonal with rounded corners (A/F) no lid, a Chinese plate with 9 character mark, an unusual Oriental Studio pottery pot and a Chinese blue and white dragon plate with four character mark, hairline crack
Lot 110
AFTER KARL AUGUST WILLHELM SOMMER (1839-1921) "Hermes seated upon a rock", patinated bronze study, based on the figure of Hermes found at the Villa of Papyri at Herculaneum CONDITION REPORTS Has surface scratches throughout, appears to have had something broken from his hand. General wear and tear, surface scratches etc - see images for more details. Approx 28 cm high
Lot 115
QARAKHANID, NASR B. ‘ALI (c. 383-403h). Obverse die for a dirham of Uzkand 400h. OBVERSE: Incuse legends as Kochnev 212DIMENSIONS: 35 mm diameter; 43mm long. CONDITION: Modern test-mark (confirming metal as brass or bronze), otherwise very fine and extremely rare. Surviving mediaval Islamic coin dies are excessively rare, and the high quality of the calligraphy suggests that this is an official die rather than one made by a contemporary counterfeiter.
Lot 25
UMAYYAD, TEMP. AL-HAJJAJ B. YUSUF. Bronze weight, uniface, for three-and-a-half dinars. LEGEND: bismillah amr | al-amir al-Hajjaj | ibn Yusuf bi’l-wa- | fa hadha mizan | thalatha wa nisf. DIMENSIONS: 20mm square. WEIGHT: 14.50g. REFERENCE: cf Morton & Eden auction 69, 10 April 2014, lot 27 for a similar three-dinar weight. CONDITION: Edges chamfered (probably to facilitate removal from a box), fine and extremely rare
Lot 26
UMAYYAD, TEMP. AL-HAJJAJ B. YUSUF. Bronze weight, uniface, for 7/10ths of a dinar. LEGEND: bismillah | amr al-amir | al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf | bi’l-wa fa hadha | mizan saba‘t. WEIGHT: 2.74g. CONDITION: Fine, and extremely rare. The term mizan saba‘t on this piece identifies it as a dirham weight, this being defined as 7/10ths of the canonical dinar.
Lot 357
British East India Company: A bronze seal matrix naming Edward Stephenson, dated 1126h, year 3, 18.5 x 14mm, extremely fine. Edward Stephenson (c. 1691 – 7 September 1768) was an English EIC administrator and ambassador who served as President of Bengal for one day from 17-18 September 1728. He was originally from Keswick where he returned after his EIC service, to a modest land holding. In January 1714 Stephenson was chosen, together with John Surman, to form a two-man embassy from the Governor of Fort Marlborough to the Court of Farrukhsiyar, with the objective of securing favourable trading rights with the new emperor. (The Early Annals of the British in Bengal, Vol II, Part I p 154). While there however they witnessed and reported the horrific mass execution of Banda Singh Bahadur and so many other Sikhs - arguably the greatest display of commitment to faith in Sikh history: ‘It is not a little remarkable, with patience they undergo their fate, and to the last it has not been found that one apostatized from this new formed religion.’ (Letter from Edward Stephenson to Robert Hedges, President and Governor of Fort William, Bengal, dated 10 March 1716: The Early Annals of the British in Bengal, Vol II, Part II, “The Surman Embassy”, Letter XII (I), 119. This is the first EIC report of these events. The seal is written in Persian and dated 1126h, year 3 which equates to AD 1715-16. The inclusion of an Islamic date and regnal year implies that it was provided by the Mughal court for Stephenson’s use presumably in ratifying contracts and agreements drawn up during his visit.
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