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Lot 141
A selection of brass wares to include two pairs of candlesticks, brass coal helmet, bells, etc, together with a late 19th Century Asonia Clock co porcelain bodied clock with Roman numerals to the enamel dial, floral spray decorated body in the French taste, together with a selection of china and glassware to include glass match striker, etc
Lot 12
Kings of Macedon, Alexander III, the Great (336-323 BC), gold stater, uncertain eastern mint, c. 325-300 BC, head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet, the bowl decorated with coiled serpent, rev., ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ[ΟΥ] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, Nike standing left holding wreath and ship’s stylis, 8.60g, die axis 9.00, a few minor marks but good extremely fine and with an exceptional head of Athena. This coin published: Price p. 500, 3993A; de Sartiges 199; Gerald Hoberman, The Art of Coins and their Photography, London, 1982, pp. 63 and 78-9. Provenance: Vicomte de Sartiges Collection, Paris; Kunstfreund sale (Charles Gillet Collection), Bank Leu/Münzen und Medaillen, Zurich, 28 May 1974, lot 234; Gerald Hoberman Collection; DNW, London, 27 September 2011, lot 2004. Note: In recording this coin Price suggested that there was a “branch (?)” positioned below the truncation of Athena but it is much more likely to represent a continuation of the elaborate crest emerging from behind her lower strands of hair. Nevertheless the exquisite style of Athena’s head on the present coin is without parallel within the recorded coinage of Alexander the Great and in this regard it appears to be unique. In the 1974 Kunstfreund auction it realised 36,000 CHF, almost three times its estimate.
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Lot 29
Lesbos, Methymna, silver stater, c. 480-450 BC, [Μ]ΑΘΥΜΝΑΙΟΣ, boar walking right with head lowered, scratching its snout with its left foreleg, rev., head of Athena right wearing helmet adorned with projecting spike and volute pattern on the bowl; within dotted frame set in incuse square, 8.36g, die axis 7.00, toned, good very fine and very rare. This coin published: SNG Lockett 2776. Other references: BMC 1, same dies; Gulbenkian 717, same dies; Boston 1658, same dies; Jameson 1466, same dies. Franke, P.R., Zur Münzprägung von Methymna, in Buchholz, H.G., Methymna (Mainz 1975), 1. Provenance: Madame Valette Collection; Feuardent, Paris, 16 June 1924, lot 118; R.C. Lockett Collection; Glendining, 21 February 1961, lot 2247; Prospero Collection; The New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012, lot 489.
Lot 9
Sicily, Syracuse, silver decadrachm, c. 405 BC, by Kimon, fast quadriga driven left by charioteer who reaches forward with goad and is crowned with wreath by Nike flying above; on exergual line, traces of artist’s signature ΚΙΜΩΝ and in exergual area below, cuirass between two greaves flanked by a shield and crested helmet arranged on two steps, rev., ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ, head of Arethusa left, wearing single-drop earring, pearl necklace and ampyx inscribed with artist’s initial K, her hair held at the back in a net; four dolphins around, the lower one inscribed ΚΙΜΩΝ, 43.09g, die axis 6.00, a few marks, about extremely fine, the Kimon decadrachm signed three times by the artist. This coin published: Gerald Hoberman, The Art of Coins and their Photography, London, 1982, pp. 78-9. References: Jongkees 3; AMB 479; Rizzo pl. 52, 3; Gulbenkian 303; SNG Lockett 998; Dewing 869; Kraay/Hirmer 118, same dies. Provenance: Münzen und Medaillen 54, Basel, 26 October 1978, lot 122 (“superbe”, erroneously described as Jongkees 7); Gerald Hoberman Collection; DNW, London, 22 June 2011, lot 1005. Note: Despite being “perhaps the most famous of all ancient coins” (Jenkins, 1972), ancient sources have been silent on the historical setting in which the Syracusan decadrachms were struck. Until the 1960s they were seen as a victory coinage to mark the defeat of the great Athenian fleet in 413 BC but this theory was abandoned by Kraay (“Greek Coins”, 1966) who saw the Kimonian decadrachms as “probably to be dated c. 405 BC and may be connected with Dionysius’s victory over the Carthaginians in that year”. Kimon was one of the greatest artists of the Syracusan mint and his decadrachm coinage was much smaller than that of his compatriot Euainetos whose decadrachms follow on slightly later and are more plentiful. The present coin is struck from Kimon’s first obverse die which shows traces of his signature along the exergual line below the galloping horses, and from the reverse die that bears his signature twice – on Arethusa’s ampyx as an initial and on the lower dolphin beneath her truncation. It has been struck from an early state of the reverse die showing only a hint of the flaw across Arethusa’s eye.
Lot 37
Uncertain Levantine Mint, silver half shekel or didrachm, late 5th to 4th centuries BC, in imitation of Athenian coinage, head of Athena right wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with spiral palmette, three olive leaves and a pattern effect below the crest, rev., Α – Θ – Ε, owl standing facing with spread wings; olive sprig in upper left field, 6.83g, die axis 4.00, slight encrustation, very fine, apparently unpublished and possibly unique. Provenance: Manhattan Sale II, New York, 4 January 211, lot 72. Note: This unusual coin of eastern style imitates the designs found on the famous decadrachms struck at Athens in the 460s BC. Athenian tetradrachms found their way to the eastern Mediterranean lands and Egypt in trade and were extensively copied locally. This coin however stands apart from these and could perhaps be compared to the drachms of the so-called Philisto-Arabian series depicting a female head on the obverse and a facing owl on the reverse much as is found here (cf. BMC p. 177, 8-11; cf. SNG ANS 32). These drachms however bear Aramaic inscriptions (apparently denoting the mint of Ascalon in Palestine) instead of the Greek letters found on the present coin.
Lot 508
A CARVED POLYCHROME WOOD ARMORIAL BEARING, CONTINENTAL, LATE 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY the shaped shield later painted with the arms of Comte de la Lanne below a crowned helmet and scrolling mantling 64cm high, damage, losses and restoration Provenance: Robin Ian Evelyn Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees (Grinnell-Milne), Comte de la Lanne-Mirrlees, titular Prince of Incoronata, Scottish Feudal Baron of Inchdrewer and Laird of Bernera (1925-2012) Count Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees was described in his Telegraph obituary as "a Ruritanian figure whose career encompassed soldiering, serving as a Herald in the College of Arms and helping Ian Fleming to write a James Bond novel in which Mirrlees himself appeared as a character." (The Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2012)
Lot 352
UNA CAFFETTIERA ED UNA ZUCCHERIERA IN ARGENTO, CAPELLO Torino, XX secolo - A SILVER COFFEE POT TOGETHER WITH A SILVER SUGAR BOWL, CAPELLO Turin, 20th Century Diverse, la caffettiera liscia, con manico in legno ebanizzato, la zuccheriera ad elmo con cucchiaino ad incastro. 804 g compreso il manico della caffettiera La caffettiera altezza 19 cm - Different, the smooth coffee pot with handle in ebonized wood, the helmet-shaped sugar bowl with fitted spoon. 804 g including the handle of the coffee pot Coffee pot height 7.48 in. € 250
Lot 354
BROCCA IN ARGENTO, VAVASSORI Milano, XX secolo - A SILVER EWER, VAVASSORI Milan, 20th Century Ed un paio di bicchieri in argento Capello, Torino. La brocca ad elmo con decoro a cordoncino, i bicchieri lisci. Argento 925 1012 g La brocca altezza 23,5 cm - Together with a pair of silver glasses by Capello, Turin. The ewer is helmet-shaped with corded decoration, the glasses smooth. Silver 925 1012 g Pitcher height 9.25 in. € 250
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