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Lot 639
13th-14th century AD. A slender black glass vessel with marvered white glass trails, with rounded foot, square-section body, slanted shoulder, tubular neck and chamfered rim. 268 grams, 19.5cm (7 3/4"). Property of a North West London gentleman; formerly with a central London gallery in 1990. As the center of the Roman Empire shifted to Constantinople in the fifth and sixth centuries, cultural production also shifted east. Beginning in the seventh century, the new Islamic societies became heirs to the technological and artistic knowledge of the glass manufacturers of the former Roman Empire. But there was no immediate courtly patronage for glassmaking in the early Islamic societies, and thus production of traditional, that is, Roman, glass continued.In the eleventh to 14th centuries dark glass adorned with feathered trails of contrasting colors, worked into the hot glass in a technique called marvering, became very popular. With the glass object still on the pontil (the metal rod used to hold and twirl glass while it is being worked), the artist would roll it over thin trails of glass laid out on the marver, the flat polished stone or metal surface upon which glass is normally shaped. After these trails of glass are consolidated onto the surface of the object, they can be manipulated with a pointed tool into a wavy, arched or featherlike pattern. Fine condition, repaired.
Lot 2372
5th-1st century BC. A group of artefacts comprising: a ceramic child bust wearing a hat with animal ears(?); a black stone bead with incised decoration to one side; a pale green glass domed bead with ribbed decoration and central pellet; a transparent grey stone bead; a red and orange square mosaic glass bead. 23.15 grams total, 17-30mm (3/4 - 1 1/4"). Property of a North West London gentleman; formerly with a central London gallery in 1990. Fine condition. [5, No Reserve]
Lot 350
Neolithic, 6th-3rd millennium BC. A knapped greenstone spearhead or javelin tip with two-edged blade, short shoulder, thick tang. 61 grams, 17cm (7"). Property of a German gentleman; acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. Cf. Evans, J. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, London, 1897, item 302. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
Lot 2524
18th century AD. A D-section hoop with large foil-backed cell bezel holding a square cut rock crystal stone. 2.90 grams, 23.25mm overall, 16.49mm internal diameter (approximate size British L½, USA 6, Europe 11.75, Japan 11"). (1"). From an old North Country collection; formed between 1970-2000. Fine condition.
Lot 2000
1900-1700 BC. A green agate cylinder seal depicting a Lamma goddess and a god with a mace wearing a brimmed hat and short clothes, inscribed with name of the seal's owner, Ahi-shagish son of Ya'uzum, servant of Nin-shubur; accompanied by a typed scholarly note by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: Cylinder seal of green stone with black inclusions. The design shows two, facing standing gods: a Lamma goddess on the right, in horned tiara and long flounced robe, raising both hands. On the left is the god with mace, in hat and short clothes, holding his mace at the waist. A three-line cuneiform inscription names the ancient seal owner: Ahi-Shagish, son of Ya'uzum, servant of (the god). Nin-shubur. This is an Old Babylonian seal, c. 1900-1700 B.C. and is in good condition. Ahi-Shagish is a Babylonian name, Ya'uzum is an Amorite name. 11 grams, 28mm (1"). From an important collection of Classical and Near Eastern seals formed in the late 1970s and early 1980s; the property of a London gentleman, cat. no.26372/70. TimeLine Auctions, 19th June 2013. Lot No. 0821. Ninshubur was a Sumerian messenger goddess and a sukkal, or second-in-command, of the goddess Inanna. She played an important role in many myths about Inanna, most notably the one about her descent to the Underworld. Although she is usually described as an unmarried virgin, in a few accounts she is said to be one of Inanna's lovers and referred to as a male in Akkadian mythology. While Inanna was associated with the planet Venus, Ninshubur was associated with the planet Mercury. Her name can be translated as Queen of the East. Fine condition.
Lot 121
New Kingdom, Reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BC. A stone scarab with detailed carapace and legs; to the underside a cartouche with Neb Maat Ra, the prenomen of Amenhotep III, and series of hieroglyphs; pierced through body for suspension. 41.37 grams, 45mm (1 3/4"). Ex Gustave Mustaki collection, some of the Mustaki collection is in the British Museum, the collection was exported to the UK with export permits in 1948. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
Lot 364
Neolithic, 4th-3rd millennium BC. A mixed group of stone tools comprising: a small axehead with rounded edge and flat butt, D-shaped in section; a leaf-shaped bifacial scraper; a crescentic scraper; a D-section tool with notch to the rounded end. (2 1/4 - 3"). Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1950s. Fine condition, some chipping and usage wear. [4, No Reserve]
Lot 1165
Published 1988 and 1996 AD. Group comprising: Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, III, Roman Provincial Lamps, British Museum, 1988 and A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum, IV, Lamps of Metal and Stone and Lampstands,British Museum, 1996. 4.51 kg, 28 x 23cm (11 x 9"). Property of a Hertfordshire, UK collector. Very fine condition; standard references. [2, No Reserve]
Lot 1347
Song Dynasty, 10th-11th century AD. A carved stone statue of Milarepa in prone pose with hands holding a quadrant (harp?), legs bent and robe extended; mounted on a custom-made stand. 27.5 kg, 60cm including stand (23 1/2"). Acquired on the London art market before 2000. Fine condition; repaired.
Lot 2308
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A group of carved stone cylinder seal comprising: small black with two seated figures at a small table, possibly playing a game, surrounded by trees; yellow with a seated goddess(?"). and two attendants at her throne, sun symbol above one attendant; brown with two lines, upper line with leaf-shape decoration, lower line with seven-armed star; black with a 'tree of life' and two antelopes; large black with a cuneiform inscription, seated figure of a god holding a sceptre facing standing attendant and a small knee-bent naked figure; dark grey with a line of cuneiform inscription and geometric decoration. 41.36 grams total, 17-35mm (3/4 - 1 1/2"). From the collection of a North West London gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. Fine condition. [6]
Lot 2395
2nd-1st millennium BC. A stone stamp seal with barrel-shaped suspension ring, decorated with square bands with lozenge shapes; globular body with underside engraved with border of dots enclosing a walking animal, possibly a monkey. 40 grams, 33mm (1 1/4"). From an old German collection; acquired before 1990. Fine condition.
Lot 678
1st-3rd century AD. A stone or glass intaglio engraved with an eagle standing on the thunderbolt of Jupiter and with Greek inscription below; further Greek inscription to the reverse of intaglio; set into a sympathetic modern gold ring. 9 grams, 20.77mm overall, 18.46mm internal diameter (approximate ring size British Q, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18, Japan 17"). (3/4"). Extremely fine condition. Property of a West Yorkshire lady; previously in the Brian Riley collection, Yorkshire, UK, 2007.
Lot 2006
22nd-21st century BC. A black limestone cylinder seal with two pairs of heroes fighting animal opponents, accompanied by a museum-quality impression and a copy of an old scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: Cylinder Seal of Black Stone, 29 (hand over written"). x 13.5 mm. The design consists of two symmetrically arranged pairs of contestants: on the right a flat-capped hero is grappling with a buffalo, on the left a bull-man with a lion. As a terminal a star on the standard is placed below a linear device. This is an Akkadian seal, c. 2300-2200 B.C., from Mesopotamia or a nearby area. It is in the best Akkadian style, though two of the figures are a little damaged. What remains is well preserved. The metal peg on which it was originally held partly remains in the hole. 8.43 grams, 29mm with peg (1"). From an important North London collection formed before 1980. This lot is part of a single collection of cylinder seals which were examined in the 1980s by Professor Lambert and most are accompanied by his own detailed notes; the collection has recently been reviewed by Dr. Ronald Bonewitz. Fine condition.
Lot 348
Neolithic, 5th-3rd millennium BC. A fully polished bifacial macehead, biconvex in profile with gusset to the rim; fossilised wood of an extinct species of palm tree. 622 grams, 10.5cm (4"). From a South West London collection; formed 1990-2000. The fine polished finish and the unusual choice of stone - a fossilised wood - suggest that the implement may have been intended for ceremonial use. Very fine condition.
Lot 1147
1st-3rd century AD. A group of stone intaglios consisting of one with the figure of Fortune standing and holding a cornucopia and rudder, one with the goddess Salus standing and holding a snake, one with Victory holding a wreath and standing on an orb, two captives to either side. 1.79 grams total, 9-16mm (1/4 - 1/2"). Private collection, North London; acquired in the early 1990s. Very fine condition. [3]
Lot 241
4th-2nd century BC. A mixed group of female heads comprising: one ceramic with long loose hair and crown, one bone with tall triangular headdress or crown, one hardstone with carved face, one amber with face from profile, one amber with bust; one ceramic with triangular cap or hat, one anthropomorphic stone figure. 15.3 grams total, 18-27mm (1/2 - 1"). Property of a German gentleman; acquired before 1989. Fair condition. [7, No Reserve]
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