4th Jun, 2025 11:00
Indian, Islamic, Himalayan and South-East Asian Art and Greek and Roman Antiquities
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A GROUP OF ROMAN AND CYPRIOT TERRACOTTA OBJECTS
comprising a Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware spindle flask, Cyprus, circa 1550-1050 B.C., 37.7cm high; a Roman Pottery Unguentarium, with conical body and cylindrical neck, circa 1st Century B.C./ A.D., 15.4cm high and Four Roman Pottery Oil Lamps, one in the form of a comic actor’s mask, 6.6cm long; another moulded with the goddess Fortuna holding a cornucopia and a ship’s rudder, a wreath encircling, 8cm long; another with a vine wreath and grape clusters moulded on the shoulder, an amphora above the nozzle flanked by volutes, 9.6cm long, ink inscribed with the number 10 on the underside, the fourth a Byzantine lamp, the shoulder decorated with medallions containing birds, 9.7cm long, circa 1st-6th Century A.D. (6)
Provenance: Private collection, England
Christie’s London, Antiquities, Works of Art and Important Renaissance Bronzes, Plaquettes and Limoges Enamels, 8 July 1981, 172 (part, spindle flask) and 126 (part).
Ex Collection of Mr W. A. Stewart, Director of School of Arts and Crafts, Cairo, 1919-1929. Christie’s London, Antiquities, Works of Art and Important Renaissance Bronzes, Plaquettes and Limoges Enamels, 8 July 1981, 126 (part, oil lamps).
For a closely related spindle flask in the British Museum, see 1876,0909.51
comprising a Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware spindle flask, Cyprus, circa 1550-1050 B.C., 37.7cm high; a Roman Pottery Unguentarium, with conical body and cylindrical neck, circa 1st Century B.C./ A.D., 15.4cm high and Four Roman Pottery Oil Lamps, one in the form of a comic actor’s mask, 6.6cm long; another moulded with the goddess Fortuna holding a cornucopia and a ship’s rudder, a wreath encircling, 8cm long; another with a vine wreath and grape clusters moulded on the shoulder, an amphora above the nozzle flanked by volutes, 9.6cm long, ink inscribed with the number 10 on the underside, the fourth a Byzantine lamp, the shoulder decorated with medallions containing birds, 9.7cm long, circa 1st-6th Century A.D. (6)
Provenance: Private collection, England
Christie’s London, Antiquities, Works of Art and Important Renaissance Bronzes, Plaquettes and Limoges Enamels, 8 July 1981, 172 (part, spindle flask) and 126 (part).
Ex Collection of Mr W. A. Stewart, Director of School of Arts and Crafts, Cairo, 1919-1929. Christie’s London, Antiquities, Works of Art and Important Renaissance Bronzes, Plaquettes and Limoges Enamels, 8 July 1981, 126 (part, oil lamps).
For a closely related spindle flask in the British Museum, see 1876,0909.51
Auction: Indian, Islamic, Himalayan and South-East Asian Art and Greek and Roman Antiquities, 4th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The sales include sculpture, bronzes, metalwork, textiles and paintings representative of the richly varied styles seen across the Indian subcontinent, from early Buddhist and Jain art to Mughal and European-influenced works of art of the colonial era.
Works of art from all parts of the Islamic world, from Morocco in the west, through the Middle East, Persia and Central Asia to muslim China and South East Asia in the East are included in the sale. Objects range in date from the early centuries of Islam to the early 20th century at a wide range of price levels.
The sales also include Khmer, Thai and Javanese sculpture and bronzes, textiles from the Indonesian islands, Thai ceramics, Burmese lacquer and Buddhist manuscripts. Works of art range from the early Indian-influenced styles from 9th century Java to the elaborate carved and lacquered woodwork from Colonial Burma.
For full details of bibliographic references, see pages 192-193 of the page turning and printed versions of the catalogue.
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