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Sale 38
Manuscript and Collectibles Auction
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Lot 1282 |
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Fine Jar with Trailed Glass Threading. Roman Syria, c. 4th to 5th century AD. Jar in light green glass, with wide mouth and folded collar beneath rim. The neck broad and body sharply ovoid. A continuous thread of deep blue-green trailed glass forms two encircling rings and a thicker zigzag pattern below. Jar is intact and perfect, with small scattered patches of brilliant violet iridescence. Height: 3-1/2". A fine example of this class.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,250.
Cf. G.A.E. Vol 11, fig. 177 b & c; Newark, fig. 180.
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Lot 1283 |
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Massive Socketed Axe Head, in Copper or Bronze. Levant or Syria, 2nd millennium BC. Profile similar to some Egyptian types, but socketed rather than flat. Blade cast and wrought, with rows of pecked grooving along the back and down part of the sides. Intact and very fine, with a little chipping and roughness to blade's edge. Mottled green and coppery patina. Length: 6-1/4". A hefty weapon!
Estimated Value $500 - 600.
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Lot 1284 |
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Socketed Spearhead in Bronze. Iran, c. 1000-700 BC. Well crafted, with lengthy tapered socket, and slim lanceolate blade. The junction between the blade and socket strengthened and somewhat squared by hammering. Notable is the herringbone pattern incised there, creating a lozenge-shaped protective eye. Preservation especially fine, with pleasing even green patina. Length: 16-5/8".
Estimated Value $400 - 500.
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$575 |
Lot 1285 |
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Remarkably Large Terra Cotta of a Goddess or Votive. Phoenicia, c. late 4th-2nd century BC. Image of a young woman with neat features, standing on a high base, with hands held up. She wears pleated chiton and veil over her long hair. Perhaps Kathirat, goddesses of marriage and pregnancy, since the figure has a bit of a "tummy," suggesting that condition. Also of note, the little well at the base, to receive offerings. Piece repaired above the knees, and with scattered marine encrustations. Some losses to the fingers, but these are ancient and have smoothed due to sea wear. Also, visible traces of pink coloring about the head. Height: 22". Very Rare in this size and quality!
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
A very comparable terra cotta of this size, but of a male, and well perhaps contemporary to our goddess, was seen at H.J. Berk sale no. 151, lot 568. It too a sea retrieval, and restored, was priced at $8,500.
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Lot 1286 |
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Lot of Three Mold-made Ceramic Pieces. Judaea, 1st-5th century AD. Earliest, a Southern Jewish type lamp, in gray ware, with neat geometric ornament; c. 1st century AD. Perhaps Samaritan, a cute bull vessel, with sharply molded decoration, red-glazed; c. 4th-5th century AD. Last, a pleasant spouted vessel, perhaps Sabaean or Byzantine, also red-glazed. Inspection suggested. All show minor to moderate chipping; the bull vessel repaired. Length of lamp: 4-1/2". Appealing Holy Land material. Lot of 3 documents.
Estimated Value $200 - 350.
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Lot 1287 |
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Small Antiquity Lot. Near East, c. 200-1250 AD. Oldest a Palestinian type lamp, used, found at Petra, and purchased there in 1979. Next the incised bronze front sheet from a reliquary cross; Byzantine, c. 10th century. With saint or apostle in orant pose. Purchased in Urgup, Turkey in 1979. Last, a Seljuk belt fitting with rosette/starburst ornament. Purchased Harcut, Turkey, in 1979. Items intact, in very good or better condition. Height of cross: 4-5/8". Lot of 3 items.
Estimated Value $75 - 100.
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Lot 1288 |
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Stylized Funerary Bust in Limestone. Southern Arabia, Sabaean, c. 1st-2nd century AD. The man's features boldly and starkly rendered with a short beard on an oval face, protruding mouth, wedge-shaped nose, recessed eyes, and sharply ridged eyebrows, on a rectangular slab. Beneath head, an inscription across - - likely the man's name. Height: 17-1/4". This is the type of large artifact that would easily compliment a decor of modern art, as well as other antiquities or traditional art.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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$1,725 |
Lot 1289 |
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Intriguing Janiform Head out of Africa. Ghana, likely Akan, c. 19th-20th century. The vessel-like sculpture in coarse reddish clay, fairly high-fired. The twin heads perhaps that of a woman, with small chin and delicate features. With two rows of scarification high up on the head. Intact with cleanable dirt. Height: 10-3/4". A good display piece, with each face just enough different from the other, that the portraits could be changed to suit one's mood.
Estimated Value $250 - 550.
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$230 |
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