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Hellenistic pottery grotesque head
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Pre AD 1000 item# 624944 (stock# Sold - 14-)
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UK Pounds - £160
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A very fine quality red glazed pottery head in the form of a male with grotesque and exaggerated features wearing a foliate wreath or garland.
During the late Hellenistic era craftsmen in Alexandria in Egypt became fascinated with realism and began to produce art reflecting the day-to-day life around them. Pottery figurines of old men and women, young children, the ill and the mal-formed were produced in large numbers.
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sold - Sept 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 574245 (stock# sold - Sep)
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sold - Sept 06
UK Pounds - £450
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A very attractive light green glass flask with rectangular sides and a round spout mounted with a single strap handle. The base is moulded with a series of concentric circles.
Rectangular flasks are considerably rarer than round-bodied examples and must have required a high level of skill in order to manufacture the shape successfully.
Roman, 1st or 2nd Century AD
Discreet repair on handle, otherwise intact. Some iridescence in places.
Size: 13 x 7.3 cms
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sold - Sept 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 565388 (stock# sold - Sep)
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sold - Sept 06
UK Pounds - £120
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A buff pottery drinking cup of pleasing shape which stands on a stemmed pedestal foot and is mounted on the body with two raised handles.
The vessel is decorated with broad dark grey painted bands encircling the foot, waist and rim. The inside centre of the bowl is painted with a single circle in imitation of an eye.
Cypriot Early Iron Age (Geometric Period) 1050 - 650BC
Small section of rim restored (triangular section with yellowish tone in photos), minor cracks, foot chipped.
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Sold - Aug 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 562640 (stock# Sold - Aug)
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Sold - Aug 06
UK Pounds - £50
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A moulded and glazed light blue faience amulet in the form of a head of the god Bes. The tall plumed head-dress and the eyes are highlighted with dark blue glaze.
Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, 1050 - 730 BC.
Intact
Size: 2.6 x 1.6 cms
Provenance: Ex. Private collection, Essex, UK. Acquired before c. 1970.
Similar example in the Petrie Collection, item UC37282
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Sold - Sept 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 562634 (stock# Sold - Sep)
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Sold - Sept 06
UK Pounds - £85
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A large bronze ring with a wide oval bezel set on a thick tapering shank.
The bezel is incised with a depiction of a hunter on a horse spearing a recumbent animal (possibly a deer).
Greek, late Classical Period, 5th or 4th Century BC
A section of the shank has cracked and moved a little, otherwise intact.
Size: 2.6 x 1.45 cms
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Sold - oct 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 562632 (stock# Sold - oct)
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Sold - oct 06
UK Pounds - £65
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A large amber glass bracelet extensively decorated with red, green and yellow inlays and mosaic cane lines.
Roman, possibly from Egypt, 2nd or 3rd Century AD.
Repaired from two pieces, extensive erosion.
Size: 9 cms diameter.
Ex. private collection, Northumbria, UK.
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Sold - Sept 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 562629 (stock# Sold - Sep)
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Sold - Sept 06
UK Pounds - £10
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A pale green glazed and moulded amulet in the form of a stylised standing figure of the god Bes.
Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 730-332 BC
Repaired and damaged, particularly to the back.
Size: 2.45 cms
Provenance: from a private collection in Essex, UK. Acquired before 1970.
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Sold - October 06
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Pre AD 1000 item# 561186 (stock# Sold - Oct)
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Sold - October 06
UK Pounds - £65
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An attractive and quite unusual bronze figure of a horse. The horse is wearing a full saddle, head collar and reins and he is depicted striding with his front right leg raised.
Northern Europe, c. 15th or 16th Century AD.
Eroded, lower parts of legs and tail lost. Possibly a child's toy? Presumably this would have been made with a separate and detachable rider figure.
Size: 4.5 x 2.7 cms
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