Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/578
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    176 177 178 Gris) 180 183 184 185 186 Three gold Bracelets, each set with seven scarabs in ornamental funda, with pendant attachments of scarab, plaque or amulet (3) Twelve Scarabs, steatite and glazed pottery, two of them with cartouche of Thothmes III A Babylonian cylindrical Seal, hematite, well cut with Gilga- mesh and EKa-bani fighting a lion ; a Conoid pottery Seal ; an oblong pottery Seal with handle; and nine other Pieces (12) A Persian Intaglio, sapphirine quartz, oval, cut as a stag with antlers, aud drilled as a pendant, set in its original gold funda with design of pyramids of dots Five Greek gold Earrings, three with ram’s-head terminals, one with a tiny Eros, and one with a plain bulla. (5) A pair of Greek gold Earrings, quadrangular, with three vertical rows of five bulle, divided by raised rope design, and surmounted by one larger bulla; and the centrepiece of a fibula of similar style (3) A VERY FINE GREEK GOLD FINGER RING, with intaglio cutting on an oval bezel, a Greek warrior with shield and spear killing another on the ground, possibly Hector killing Patroclus A GREEK GOLD FINGER RING, with intaglio cutting on an oval bezil, a woman wearing a very short skirt, one leg bare, standing holding a club and a shield, possibly Omphale, and in the air a small winged female holding a garland A Greco-Pheenician gold Finger Ring, pierced with chevron design, leaving three ovals, in the centre the shrine of Paphos, and on each side a palm branch ; and a smal] plain gold Ring, also with the shrine of Paphos on the centre (2) A Greek gold Pendant for a necklace, mask of a satyr’s head, with a horizontal band loop for suspension Two pairs of Roman gold Earrings, one with pear] pendants, the other with pearl pendants and set with pastes; and a pair, silver, of later date, with enamel centres and three green paste drops (6)
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