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Lot 221
§ Breon O'Casey (British 1928-2011) Study for Éan Mór, circa 2006 III/V, initialled and numbered (to underside of base), patinated bronze, marble baseDimensions:20cm high, 20cm wide (7 7/8in high, 7 7/8in wide) excluding baseProvenance:When originally purchased from the artist, O'Casey sent a note explaining 'I enclose a token of thanks for all your trouble...It's a maquette of the big one...Breon'.Note: The large scale Éan Mór is situated at Phoenix Park, Dublin. "It’s odd, but although my paintings are almost always abstract, my sculptures arealmost always of some animal, bird or person. I don’t know why this is; but maybepainting is a language - a language writ on hardboard, paper or canvas. The languageof colour and form - as John Wells says: “whereas sculpture is objects”. And an object,unless it be a stone, must be of something." (Breon O'Casey)
Lot 282
§ Denis Mitchell (British 1912-1993) Untitled, 1969 unique, initialled and dated (to underside of base), brassDimensions:26cm x 2.5cm (10 1/4in x 1in) excluding baseProvenance:Provenance: Commissioned by the artist George Dannatt and thence by family descent;Askew Art, London, where acquired by the present owner.Note: Exhibited: Maltby Contemporary Art, Winchester; Rosenberg & Co., New York.Literature: George Dannatt and Friends, exhibition catalogue, Osborne Samuel, London, 2015, p.50, illustrated p.62; Modern British Masters, Rosenberg & Co., New York,2017.Note: This unique sculpture, dating from 1969, was a commission from Denis Mitchell’s friend, the art connoisseur turned painter George Dannatt. Initially Mitchell’s sculptural work was characterised by direct carving of wood and stone, skills developed in his war service work in the Geevor tin mine, before he spent ten years as assistant to Barbara Hepworth. Mitchell explained; ‘we carved side by side . . . I was her hands.’ By the late 1960s he had developed an assured approach in the casting of both brass and bronze to create polished and dynamic sculpture. His love of pure form shines through in this deceptively simple work; the jagged edges, pierced holes and shining warm surface divide, reflect and reveal the light and space around and behind the slim form, conjuring a potent presence much greater than its stature.
Lot 31
A miscellaneous group of bronze, silver, pottery and stone objectsVarious Periods, 8th Century B.C. - ModernIncluding an Italic bow brooch, circa 8th-7th Century B.C., 4.7cm long; two Medusa head appliques, 2.3cm; three bronze rings; a silver ring with punched decoration; a spiral ring; an openwork attachment, 4.2cm diam; a buckle; a bronze quadruped, 9.9cm high; a bronze figure standing on an integral plinth holding a simian featured head in each hand, 9.5cm high; a recumbent stone animal; a rectangular stone palette, 9.8cm long, and three other items (a lot)Provenance:Recumbent stone animal: Pennsylvania private collection, formed in the 1980s-1990sStone palette: French private collection, acquired from Galerie Pignatelli, Paris,December 1965.Small pottery vessel: American private collection, Massachusetts, formed in the 1960s-1970s.All other items: American private collection, Illinois, acquired in the 1970s-90s.Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 33
Three miscellaneous antiquitiesVarious PeriodsIncluding an Egyptian Middle Kingdom amethyst scarab, 19mm long; a Neo-Assyrian cream stone scaraboid, inscribed with a deity in profile, circa 7th Century B.C., and an Egyptian Late Period green glazed faience scarab, with delineated wing-case, pierced for attachment, 4.5cm long; and seven rings, tie-pins and cufflinks, including two cufflinks formed out of recumbent jackels, a modern scarab mounted in a tie-pin, a modern scarab mounted in a ring; a translucent stone ring with cursory inscription on the bar-shaped bezel and two other items (10)Provenance:The first three items, stone ring & carnelian bead: American private collection, Illinois, acquired in the 1970s-90s.All other items: English collection 1970s-1990s.Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 397
A Mughal floral silk cut velvet, late Jahangir or early Shah Jahan period, 1620-1630, polychrome silk cut velvet on twill ground, 89cm. long x 16 cm. highProvenance:Private collection, ParisThe fluidity of movement, particularly in the treatment of leaves, is reminiscent of late Jahangiri style decoration, as seen for example in the coloured stone inlay of the tomb of I'timad al-Daula in Agra (1622-28).These velvets, usually consisting of four borders woven as one piece, were woven as yardage which would then have been cut into strips, along the grooves, to be used as borders to velvet floor spreads or blinds.Another similar velvet, drawn with less fluidity of design, is in the Musee Guimet in Paris (gift of Krishna Riboud A.E.D.T.A. no 1692).BibliographyWalker, D., Flowers Underfoot - Indian Carpets of the Mugahl Era, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, fig. 19ed. Riboud, K., In Quest of Themes and Skills - Asian Textiles, Marg 1989, Smart, E.S. & Gluckman, D. 'Cloth of Luxury: Velvet in Mughal India' no. 4, p. 39Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 78
A restrung Western Asiatic necklace composed of agate and carnelian beads with two blue-green cylindrical beads pendant in an openwork gold pendant setting, with gold spacer beads including multiple filigree disc beads, a filigree spherical bead and others with a larger single openwork squat spherical bead., late 2nd Millennium B.C. and later with some modern gold additions; A western Asiatic or Mesopotamian hollow sheet gold double bull amulet, with two opposing recumbent bulls, the outline of their legs visible, around a bitumen, possibly a seal, circa 1st Millennium B.C., 3.2cm. long; A Sumerian calcite “bull man” amulet with human face and animal ears and horns, deeply recessed eyes, with two further recesses above the eyebrows, circa 2500 B.C.; Two Western Asiatic gold hoop earrings with slightly swollen hoops and slender terminals, circa mid 1st Millennium B.C. (2); An Early Dynastic limestone cylinder seal, carved with crossed lions and a hero, circa 2500-2200 B.C.; a button-shaped black stone seal, the face engraved with a cross, each quadrant filled with symbols and seven other carved cylinder seals, some worn and not ancient and two bronze coins; and A Western Asiatic lapis lazuli and gold restrung necklace with lozenge-shaped and oval beads of various sizes with gold spacer beads, hanging pendant below are a gold and garnet bead, a thin oval bead formed of conjoined sheet gold and a v-shaped earring with wire bindings, granulation and a hinged catch with lapis lazuli beads and a pendant garnet, circa late 2nd – 1st Millennium B.C. and later (24)Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 83
A Ghaznavid steatite stone horse, Persia, 11th-12th century, carved with angular single block rear and fore legs, bowed head, with etched design of circles, on wood stand, 11cm. diam x 6.8cm. highProvenance: The Estate of costume designer Anthony Powell (1935-2021)Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 10
A group of Antiquities comprising four small Egyptian alabaster vesselsMiddle 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 base, 5cm high, Middle Kingdom; a jar with ovoid body, the shoulders sloping towards the cylindrical neck, the disc rim with slightly raised lip, Late Period, 8.5cm high, an ink inscribed collection label on one side; a pear-shaped bottle with disc rim, Ptolemaic Period, 6.9cm high; a small alabaster alabastron, with disc rim and vestigial lug handles, Cyprus, circa 5th-4th Century B.C., 8.7cm high, with worn collection label on the side, and an alabaster chalice, 7.5cm high, and three hardstone Egyptian vessels, including a limestone ovoid jar, with pierced lug handles, 7.5cm high; a mottled grey-stone ovoid jar with rounded rim, 6cm high, and a thin-walled calcite jar tapering to a flat base, Possibly Early Dynastic - New Kingdom (9)Provenance:Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021).Five vessels: acquired from Thomson Roddick & Medcalf Auctioneers, Edinburgh, on the 3 April 2004, lot 855.Late Period alabaster bottle; acquired from Thomson Roddick & Medcalf Auctioneers, Edinburgh on the 7 March 2013, lot 254.Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 17
A large group of mainly Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean beads and amulets Late 5th Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium A.D. and LaterIncluding fourteen shell, calcite and white stone amulets: a standing horned bull with concentric circle designs engraved, 3.8cm x 4.9cm; a smaller standing bull, 3cm x 2cm; two recumbent bulls, 4cm max length; two small twin-headed bird pendants, 2.4cm max width; a cockerel, 2.3cm high; a miniature standing bull, 10mm long; a miniature mouse pendant, 13mm long; the foreparts of a bull pendant; 26mm long; two pomegranate-shaped pendants, 15mm high; a disc pendant with incised detail; 2.7cm high, loop damaged; a bell-shaped pendant with concentric circle designs incised on one side, 17mm high, and a Byzantine alabaster cross pendant with concentric circle designs, 3.2cm high; a banded agate ‘eye’ bead, 4.4cm diam; an obsidian discoid bead, with incised feather pattern, 23mm long; seventeen mainly mosaic glass beads, including four barrel-shaped glass beads with suspension hoops, 2.7cm – 4.8cm long; five barrel-shaped beads, including a red and yellow ribbon bead set into a green matrix, a red feathered bead in a black matrix, 2.5cm - 4cm; a small cylindrical bead with red, blue and white feathering, 2.7cm long, and a millefiori glass bead with yellow terminals, 3cm long, one end chipped; a spherical bead with mosaic chequerboard design, 11mm diam, five other cylindrical, spherical and barrel-shaped beads; fifteen stone or bone spindle whorls or beads, mainly with incised concentric decoration on the sloping surface, 10mm-36mm diam; a group of glass pendants, amulets and tokens, including a blue and yellow miniature handled vessel, 2cm high; a bird, 2cm long; two moulded pendants with a lion, another with a head, another with a frog, and three other glass pendants; four translucent glass ‘fly’ pendants, 16mm - 20mm; sixteen glass pendants, beads, inlays and artefacts including a twin spiral bead, 14mm long; and a collection of earrings, including two similar shell hooped earrings, 2.1cm diam, and twelve bronze hopped earrings, mainly with beads of either glass or stone pendant below, and a gold hooped earring with an iridescent glass bead pendant below, and two recumbent amuletic bulls, 4cm long, Not Ancient (a lot) Provenance:Collection of Lady Gloria Dale (1922-2013), London, acquired during the 1960s-1972.Christie's London Antiquities, 30 April 2008, lot 68.UK private collection acquired from the above auction.Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 18
A large group of Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean beads and amulets Late 5th Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium A.D. and LaterIncluding four Western Asiatic mainly shell disc rings with circle designs, once inlaid, 7.4cm max diam, one damaged; a glazed frit disc with concentric circle designs, 4.9cm diam; a large grey stone pendant carved on one side with a stylised coiled snake, 8.5cm diam; a group of thirteen miniature shell and white hardstone amulets including recumbent bulls, double-headed birds, figures, a human head and a stamp seal, 30mm max; a green stone amuletic figure of a ‘hermaphrodite’ lower torso, 22mm; five black stone heads, busts and figures, 12mm-27mm; a black stone bull’s head pendant and a black stone amuletic bull, 18mm and 20mm, a red stone pendant bird, 27mm; a miniature lapis lazuli bead of a female bust, 11mm; a bone tooth-shaped pendant, 4.4cm; two bone human busts, 20mm max; two hardstone clenched fist pendants, 24mm max and a frit example, 13mm; three hardstone feet pendants, 10mm-25mm; a hardstone bird amulet and an obsidian ‘fly’ amulet, 11mm max; five banded agate beads and pendants, including an amphora-shaped pendant, 19mm high; a lapis lazuli coffee-bean shaped bead and an obsidian coffee-bean shaped bead, 14mm and 22mm; three semi-translucent green stone ‘butterfly’ beads, 29mm max diam; another one attached to its original bronze shaft, 34mm diam of bead, 11.2cm max length; a scallop-shaped pendant, 17mm high, and four other hardstone beads, pendants and seals; a large hardstone pear-shaped pendant with incised cross-hatched design, 4cm high; three fruit-shaped pendants, one in the form of a pomegranate, 20mm, and a green stone pendant with cross-hatched design, 19mm high; eight phallic amulets in hardstone, glass and frit, 10mm – 27mm; an Egyptian blue glazed faience udjat eye, 3cm long; an Egyptian gold bead in the form of an udjat eye, 12mm; four frit and faience amulets of birds and fruit, 18mm max; a group of Roman glass objects including: four Roman glass spindle whorls; six miniature glass aryballoi or jugs; a janiform glass bearded male face bead, 20mm; a dark aubergine glass head pendant of an African, 18mm; three moulded pendants, two with a frog, one with a lion, 23mm max diam and two crescentic glass pendants, 15mm max (a lot)Provenance:Collection of Lady Gloria Dale (1922-2013) London, acquired during the 1960s-1972.Christie's London Antiquities, 30 April 2008, lot 67.UK private collection acquired from the above auction.Exhibited:Some items at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1978.Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 233
A page from an Arabic-Hebrew lexicon or reference book, India, Mughal, circa 1645, Arabic manuscript on paper, with 22ll. written in naskh with a lavishly illuminated chapter heading decorated with arabesques in gold and colours, verso with an illuminated shamsa, or sunburst medallion, containing the ink impression of the original owner's seal, inscribed: amir 'abd al-razzaq khan khanazad-i shah jahan 1055 (Amir 'Abd al-Razzaq Khan, born at the court of Shah Jahan, AH 1055/[1645-6 AD]'), with later scribal notations and another owner's stamp, mounted glazed and framed, 35cm. x 18 cm.Provenance: Spink & Sons, 1998Published: Paper, Parchment Steel & Stone, Calligraphy and the Arts of Islam from the 8th-19th century, exhibition catalogue 27 April - 15 May 1998, Spink, no. 11.According to Dr Ebba Koch, the text of this manuscript describes and analyses Hebrew words. It is a kind of dictionary. 'Abd al-Razzaq, the patron of this manuscript, was the son of Amir Khan, a high-ranking nobleman in the court of Shah Jahan, who served as governor of Thatta in Sindh. 'Abd al-Razzaq, his son, was styled ''khanazad'' because he was born of one already in service to the emperor. He was however less successful than his father. While Amir Khan attained the rank of 3000 zat/2000 sawar, 'Abd al-Razzaq attained the modest rank of 900 zat/3400 sawar. He died in the year AH 1063/1652-3 AD. Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 24
Seven strings of hardstone, glass, calcite and glazed faience beadsCirca 1st Millennium B.C. – Islamic, some modernIncluding a string of calcite and white stone beads of spherical, cylindrical and barrel beads; three strings with glass beads, including one with spherical beads of various sizes, some with marvered decoration, others with splashed or banded decoration and two pendant spherical beads, the other strings mainly with blue beads of varying shades, some spherical, some ‘melon’ beads and some cylindrical, one string interspersed with white hardstone beads, a turquoise barrel bead with suspension loop below; a string with blue glazed faience melon beads and tapering oval beads, a pendant hanging below, moulded with a female bust; a hardstone string with carnelian, banded agate and other hardstones(a lot) Provenance:UK private collection. Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 27
A group of Near Eastern jewellery and stamp seals2nd 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 rectangular stamp seal, engraved with a cross and geometric patterns, circa 4th-3rd Millennium B.C., 20mmx18mm; an agate seal with an incised worshipper before a crossed design, circa 7th-6th Century B.C., or earlier, 10mm x 10mm, a Phoenician carnelian scarab with incised wing-case, pierced longitudinally, circa 6th Century B.C., 17mm long; a Sasanian domed agate seal and a Sasanian carnelian ring, the bezel engraved with a raptor, 24mm diam, broken in two parts, circa 5th-7th Century A.D. (6)Provenance:With Gimpel Fils Gallery, London and previously The gold plated earrings acquired from Mrs Broukal, London, 1st April 1969; The agate seal acquired from Sotheby’s, London,1/8/68, Lot no. 60; The Sasanian domed agate seal acquired from Sotheby’s, London, 1/8/68, Lot no.61; the Sasanian carnelian ring acquired from Sotheby’s, London, 1/8/68, Lot no. 60Please refer to department for condition report
Lot 128
A heavy three stone diamond band ring, unmarked gold settings test as 18ct, set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.25ct, band width 5.7mm, size J, 8.4gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds bright white and fiery, settings very lightly abraded, unmarked but test as 18ct
Lot 136
An early 20th century 18ct gold graduated five stone diamond half hoop ring, set with old European-cut diamonds, hallmarks Chester 1917, setting height 5.7mm, size S, 3.3gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds relatively bright and white, settings slightly worn mainly on back of shank, hallmarks rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 141
An 18ct gold three stone diamond crossover ring, platinum-topped set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.25ct, setting height 7.5mm, size O, 2.9gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds relatively bright with a slight yellow tint, settings lightly abraded, mark clear, engraved 18ct and Plat
Lot 157
An 18ct gold three stone emerald and diamond ring, set with oval mixed-cut emerald and modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.25ct, setting height 6mm, size P, 3.2gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds slightly included with fractures, settings nicely polished, hallmarks clear, stamped 750
Lot 182
A 19th century 18ct gold graduated five stone diamond half hoop ring, set with Old European-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.45ct, hallmarks Birmingham 1886, setting height 5.5mm, size N, 3gNo damage, all stones present, diamonds bright white and fiery, settings slightly worn on high points with a join mark on back of shank, hallmarks slightly rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 208
An early 20th century 18ct gold five stone sapphire and diamond half hoop ring set with old European-cut diamonds, setting height 6.1mm, size R, 3.1gNo damage or repair, all stones present, sapphires are quite rubbed and central stone is completely pale, shank slightly off-round, hallmarks very rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 209
An early 20th century graduated five stone sapphire and diamond half hoop ring, unmarked gold settings with old European-cut diamonds, setting height 5.3mm, size N, 3.3gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, sapphires have slightly abraded table facet edges, settings slightly worn on high points, unmarked
Lot 212
An early 20th century 18ct gold three stone diamond gypsy ring, set with old-cut diamonds, setting height 7.1mm, size M, 3.6gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds bright and white, settings nicely polished and shank very slightly off-round, hallmarks extremely rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 214
An early 20th century 18ct gold three stone diamond ring, platinum-topped set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.35ct, size L, 2.6gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds bright and white, settings slightly worn on either side of bridge, marks clear, stamped 18ct and Pt
Lot 242
An 18ct white gold three stone diamond ring, set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.5ct, colour approx F/G, clarity approx SI1-SI3, size J, 4.3gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds very bright white and fiery with only a few very small internal inclusions, mark clear, engraved 750
Lot 259
An early 20th century 18ct gold five stone sapphire and diamond half hoop ring, set with rose-cut diamonds, hallmarks Birmingham 1907, setting height 6.2mm, size approx N, 2.8g (shank cut)Ring is quite heavily worn and shank has been cut and bent, all stones present, hallmarks very rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 273
An 18ct gold three stone diamond ring set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.15ct, setting height 4.78mm, size L, 2.6gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds bright white and fiery, settings are worn on both sides of bridge, mark clear, engraved 18ct
Lot 303
A platinum 0.35ct solitaire diamond ring, prong set with modern round brilliant-cut diamond, colour approx G/H, clarity approx VS2/SI1, size J, 3.2gNo damage or repair, stone is bright white and fiery with no obvious internal inclusions, settings lightly abraded, hallmarks rubbed, stamped 950
Lot 309
An Antique 18ct gold graduated five stone diamond half hoop ring, set with old-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.6ct, size T, 2.4gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds relatively bright with a slight yellow tint and multiple large internal fractures, settings slightly worn on high points, mark rubbed, stamped 18
Lot 317
An 18ct gold graduated five stone half hoop ring set with old-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.25ct, setting height 4.9mm, size M, 3.6gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, central stone has a slight yellow tint, diamonds either side have a minor pinkish brown tint, hallmarks clear, stamped 750
Lot 321
A platinum three stone diamond ring, prong set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.5ct, colour approx H/I, clarity approx SI3-I2, size P, 3.9gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, diamonds relatively bright and white with a few internal fractures, shank very slightly off-round, hallmarks clear, stamped 750
Lot 323
A late 20th century 18ct gold three stone blue zircon and diamond ring, set with modern round brilliant-cut diamonds, total diamond content approx 0.5ct, size H, 3gNo damage or repairs, all stones present, zircon has slightly rubbed facet edges, diamonds bright white and fiery, hallmarks clear, stamped 750
Lot 35
A large Victorian Goliath ball clock, white enamel dial with gilded lilac enamel Arabic hour markers, stone set bezel and double heavy domed glass, case diameter 115mm, not currently workingMovement – not currently working and needs some attention Dial - 1 faint hairline crack from 11 to centre columnGlass - front glass is loose with 1 edge chipHands - lacking minute and subsidiary handCase - lacking 3 bezel stonesCrown – none
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