Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
07-08 July 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/601
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    74 76 17 78 ia 80 81 83 84 A bronze Terminal of a Chariot Pole, Roman, with head of Zeus on frontal disk, the flattening of the nose and lips shows that the chariot had been used in actual warfare, 34 in. high; and a smaller bronze Terminal in the form of a well-modelled boar’s head, 1% in. long 2 A Roman bronze Vase, with spherical body and trumpet-shaped neck, 6 in. high 1 A Spear Head, in bronze, lanceolate, 9 7m. long; nine bronze Arrow Heads and a leaden Sling Bolt, all from the site of ancient Marathon; a bronze Dipilatory; a bronze Cake Stamp, with letters in high relief; andaquantity of Roman First Brass a lot Eighteen bronze Arrow Heads, from Marathon; five Flint Implements, from Hgypt ; a bronze socketed Celt, found at Dinan, 5 in. long; and a four-pronged Roman Fork, in silver-gilt, found at London Wallin Dec., 1&&6 25 Twenty-one bronze Arrow Heads, from Marathon; six stone Adzes, found at Toome, Antrim, Mullingar and Lough Gur; and AN ANTIQUE BRONZE PIPE TOMAHAWK, found in Strawberry Creek, near Atlantic City, Wyoming 28 Two BONE MEDICINE Spoons, Roman, I cent. A.D., well-finished examples in perfect condition, 5 in. long, mounted on velvet stand l A bronze Figure of Aphrodite, Homan, about 12 in. high, mounted on square Siena marble plinth, 54 zn. high, Ptolemaic period, found at Alexandria, there is a fine dark patina on this important bronze [PI. 1] l A Gallo-Roman bronze Statuette of Mercury, with bird in right hand and purse and caduceus in left, 84 7n. Azgh, on marble socle 1 A bronze Aphrodite, standing nude, 94 in. high, across the breast of the goddess has been engraved an inscription of the early Byzantine period, but the statue is mueh older 1 A silvered Statuette of Zeus, with fulmen in right hand, cloak over left arm, and wearing wreath, minute and beautiful work, 24 in. high ( full) 1 A bronze Roman Head of a Cupid, with floral wreath in hair, forming the top of a column, fine work, 34 in. high; from the Heseltine collection, on Siena marble socle 1
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