Openwork furniture plaque with a striding, ram-headed sphinx, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th–8th century BCE, Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). Ivory, 7.8 x 8 x 0.8 cm. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 64.37.7. A ram-headed sphinx, a fantastic...

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,...