3 juillet 2017

Lot 100. A Greek silver bowl, Archaic period, Circa 6th Century B.C. Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 (€5,700 - 8,000). Photo: Bonhams. The globular bowl decorated with a rosette with twenty-six petals around a shallow central boss, with wide flaring rim, 6.7cm high Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland, early 1990s. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 16 June 2006, lot 99.Private collection, Europe, acquired at the above sale. Bonhams. ANTIQUITIES, 6 Jul 2017, 10:30 BST, LONDON,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 194. A Marlik silver beaker, Iran, circa late 2nd Millennium B.C. Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 (€2,300 - 3,400). Photo: Bonhams. With a spool-shaped body, flat base and rim, bands of guilloche above the base and below the rim, the body decorated with multiple diagonal impressed bands with incised chevrons, crossing to form diamonds, each diamond with an impressed swastika with incised chevron detail, the underside of the base with raised concentric ridges and a central cruciform motif with multiple chevrons... [Lire la suite]

Lot 183. A Neo-Assyrian bronze bowl, circa 9th-7th Century B.C. Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€11,000 - 17,000). Photo: Bonhams. The lobed, shallow bowl with concentric rings around the tondo, two groups of incised encircling bands beneath the flaring rim, 16.7cm diam. Provenance: Private collection, Europe, acquired 1960s.Property from a Princely collection; Christie's, London, 30 April 2008, lot 16. Bonhams. ANTIQUITIES, 6 Jul 2017, 10:30 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET

Lot 186. A Roman cobalt blue glass chalice, circa 4th Century A.D. Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€11,000 - 17,000). Photo: Bonhams. The large, deep ovoid body mould-blown with an irregular honeycomb pattern, a band of vertical fluting beneath the everted cut-off rim, on a disc foot with knobbed stem, 18.3cm high Provenance: with Sheppard and Cooper Ltd, London, 1995 (Glass of the Dark Ages, 1995, p.5, no.4).Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 8 June 2001, lot 220. Note: W. Haberey suggests that... [Lire la suite]

Lot 168. A Roman amber glass ribbed bowl, Late 1st Century B.C. - early 1st Century A.D. Estimate £1,800 - 2,200 (€2,100 - 2,500). Photo: Bonhams. With twenty-nine tooled vertical ribs on the exterior, decorated on the interior with a wheel-cut groove below the rim, on a flattened base, 11.7cm diam. Provenance: with J. Zadok & Sons, Jerusalem, Israel.Dr Stanley I. Batkin (1914 - 2015) collection, Scarsdale, New York, acquired from the above on 6 January 1976.Private collection, USA, acquired from the... [Lire la suite]

Lot 183. A Greek pale green glass skyphos, Hellenistic period, circa 2nd-mid 1st Century B.C. Estimate £7,000 - 10 000 (€8,000 - 11,000). Photo: Bonhams. The thick cast glass forming a deep, rounded bowl, standing on a ring foot, the ring handles with horizontal upper and curved lower plates, the upper plates merging with the rim, 16.5cm diam. inc. handles Provenance: D. S. collection, London, since 1970s. Note: For a similar example see N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage... [Lire la suite]

Lot 190. An Iranian pottery spouted vessel, circa early-mid 1st Millennium B.C. Estimate £2,000 - 3 000 (€2,300 - 3,400). Photo: Bonhams. The globular body with a carinated design, a flat base and short flaring cylindrical neck, an animal head joining the beaked spout to the rim of the neck, a small wide ridged handle on the opposite side, 22.5cm high Provenance: Paul (1912-1986) and Helen (b. 1914) Zuckerman collection, Detroit, acquired 1960s-1970s.Property from the Paul and Helen Zuckerman Collection;... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 201. An Iranian buff pottery spouted vessel, Circa 1st Millennium B.C. Estimate £1,000 - 1,500 (€1,100 - 1,700). Photo: Bonhams. Of ovoid form with long open spout, the handle in the form of a stylised horse with trumpet-shaped snout, 15.4cm high Provenance: Sam Dubiner (1914-1993) collection, Israel, and thence by descent to the present owner. Note: This lot was featured in the short film 'Britain and Amlash', part of the series made in the 1970s called The Amlash Connection,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 200. An Amlash pottery anthropomorphic vessel, Circa 1st Millennium B.C. Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 (€1,700 - 2,900). Photo: Bonhams. With swollen pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck, slightly pinched-in at the mouth with impressed 'eyes' on either side, two arms delineated with fingers applied to either side of the shoulder, a loop handle behind the neck, 23cm high Provenance: Sam Dubiner (1914-1993) collection, Israel, and thence by descent to the present owner. Note: This lot was featured in the... [Lire la suite]

An enamel and gem-set Neo-Egyptian brooch by Gustave Baugrand. Wartski, Stand C1 © 2017 MASTERPIECE LONDON LTD centred with an oval rock crystal panel applied with an enamelled portrait of the Egyptian goddess Isis, her head-dress and twin necklaces lavishly set with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, the border similarly decorated and set with three carved emerald scarabs. René Lalique. A gold, enamel and glass necklace in the Egyptian taste. Paris, c.1905. Wartski, Stand C1 © 2017 MASTERPIECE LONDON LTD ... [Lire la suite]