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'Tart Two of the TSlgtable <LArt Collection
BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE
JOSEPH BRUMMER
Public Auaion Sale May II, 12, 13 and 14 at 2 p. m.
PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES • INC
30 East 57th Street • New York
1949
SALE NUMBER 1 069
FREE PUBLIC EXHIBITION
From Saturday, May f, to Date of Sale Weekdays from 9:30 to 5 ^ Closed Sunday
PUBLIC AUCTION SALE
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday Afternoons May II; 12, 13 and 14, at 2p. m.
EXHIBITION & SALE AT THE
PARKE - BERNET GALLERIES • INC
30 EAST 57 STREET • NEW YORK 22
plaza 3-7573
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Sales Conducted by H. H. Parke
L. J. Marion A. N. Bade H. E. Russell, Jr, and A. Nisbet
1949
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PART II OF THE
Notable Art Collection
BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE
JOSEPH BRUMMER
ROMANESQUE, GOTHIC & RENAISSANCE SCULPTURES ^ IVORY CARVINGS BRONZES ^ SILVER AND TEXTILES GOTHIC TAPESTRIES MOSAN AND LIMOGES ENAMELS GOTHIC & RENAISSANCE EURNITURE ROCK CRYSTAL AND OTHER OBJETS DE VERTU
EGYPTIAN / GREEK / ROMAN / EARLY CHRISTIAN BYZANTINE AND EARLY PERSIAN OBJECTS
PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
By Order of the Executors Public Auction Sale May II, 12, 13 and 14 at 2 p. m.
PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES • INC
New York ' 1949
The Parke-Bernet Galleries
Will Execute Your Bids [mail • TELEPHONE OR TELEGRAPH] Without Charge If You Are Unable to Attend the Sale in Person
NOTICE
Items in this catalogue subject to the twenty per cent Federal Excise Tax are designated by an asterisk (*). Where all the items in a specific category are subject to the twenty per cent Federal Excise Tax, a note to this effect appears below the category heading.
PRICED CATALOGUES
A priced copy of this catalogue may be obtained for one dollar for each session of the sale plus the cost of the catalogue
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
FOREWORD TO PART TWO
The present catalogue describes the second and final major sale of the Drummer collection. There will be, in addition, a sale in mid-June on the premises at no East 58th Street, com¬ prising a session of antique statuary and ornaments suitable for garden and patio, together with a modest amount of residual furniture and decorative objects, in the main of Renaissance art.
An appreciation of the late Joseph Drummer appeared in the catalogue of Part One of the sale, and the two volumes together constitute a tribute to his remarkable taste and the scope of his energy as collector and connoisseur.
Leslie A. Hyam
NOTICE
All lots in this catalogue, which consists almost entirely of antiquities and medieval and Renaissance art, will be sold strictly as exhibited, and some imperfections or necessary restora¬ tion must be assumed in respect to many of these early objects. No mention of any such restoration or imperfections will appear in the individual catalogue descriptions with respect to any items whatever.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
The property listed in this catalogue will be offered and sold subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. The word "Galleries,” wherever used in these Conditions of Sale, means the Parke- Bernet Galleries, Inc.
2. The Galleries has exercised reasonable care to catalogue and describe correctly the property to be sold, but it does not warrant the correctness of description, genuineness, authenticity or condition of said property.
3. Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer at the time of sale, all bids are to be for a single article even though more than one article is included under a numbered item in the catalogue. If, however, the articles under any one numbered item are desig¬ nated as a "Lot,” then bids are to be for the lot irrespective of the number of articles described in such item.
4. The highest bidder accepted by the auctioneer shall be the buyer. In the event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer may, in his discretion, determine who is the successful bidder, and his decision shall be final; or the auctioneer may reoffer and resell the article in dispute.
5. Any bid which is not commensurate with the value of the article offered, or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance over the previous bid, may be rejected by the auctioneer, in his discretion, if in his judgment such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously.
6. The name and address of the buyer of each article, or lot, shall be given to the Gal¬ leries immediately following the sale thereof, and payment of the whole purchase price, or such part thereof as the Galleries may require, shall be immediately made by the purchaser thereof. If the foregoing condition, or any other applicable condition herein, is not complied with, the sale may, at the option of the Galleries, be cancelled, and the article, or lot, reoffered for sale.
7. Unless the sale is advertised and announced as an unrestricted sale, or a sale without reserve, consignors reserve the right to bid.
8. Except as herein otherwise provided, title will pass to the highest bidder upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and thereafter the property is at the purchaser’s sole risk and responsibility.
9. Articles sold and not paid for in full and not taken by noon of the day following the sale may be turned over by the Galleries to a carrier to be delivered to a storehouse for the account and risk of the purchaser, and at his cost. If the purchase price has not been so paid in full, the Galleries may either cancel the sale, and any partial payment already made shall thereupon be forfeited as liquidated damages, or it may resell the same, without notice to the buyer and for his account and risk, and hold him respon¬ sible for any deficiency.
CONDITIONS OF SALE — concluded
10. If for any cause whatsoever any article sold cannot be delivered, or cannot be delivered in as good condition as the same may have been at the time of sale, the sale will be can¬ celled, and any amount that may have been paid on account of the sale will be returned to the purchaser.
11. Unless purchased for resale, the buyer will be required to pay the Federal Excise Tax equivalent to 20 per centum of the price for which sold on jewelry, clocks, silver, gold, furs, etc. However, articles of these categories sold for certain classes of consignors are exempt from this tax. Items in this catalogue subject to the Federal Excise Tax are designated by an asterisk (*).
12. Unless exempt from the payment thereof, the buyer will also be required to pay the New York City sales tax of 2 per centum of the price for which all articles are sold.
13. The Galleries, subject to these Conditions of Sale and to such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, but without charge for its services, will undertake to make bids for respon¬ sible parties approved by it. Requests for such bidding must be given with such clearness as to leave no room for misunderstanding as to the amount to be mid and must state the catalogue number of the item and the name or title of the article to be bid on. If bids are to be made on several articles listed as one item in the catalogue, the request should state the amount to be bid on each article, unless the item contains the notation "Lot”, in which case the request should state the amount to be bid "For the Lot”. The Galleries reserves the right to decline to undertake to make such bids.
14. The Galleries will facilitate the employment of carriers and packers by purchasers but will not be responsible for the acts of such carriers or packers in any respect whatsoever.
15. These Conditions of Sale cannot be altered except in writing by the Galleries or by public announcement by the auctioneer at the time of sale.
Sales Conducted by
H. H. PARKE
L. J. MARION • A. N. BADE H. E. RUSSELL, Jr. and A. NISBET
PARKE-BERNET GALLERIES- INC
30 EAST 57 STREET • NEW YORK 22 Telephone PLaza 3-7573 Cable Parkgal
Hiram H. Parke • President
Arthur Swann and Leslie A. Hyam • Vice-Presidents LOUIS J. MARION • Assistant Vice-President MAX BARTHOLET • Secretary & Treasurer
ORDER OF SALE
FIRST SESSION
Wednesday Afternoon, May Eleventh
Egyptian Antiquities i- 8o
Assyrian, Babylonian, Chaldean and Other Early
Middle Eastern Objects of Art 8i- 94
Early Persian and Arabic Objects of Art 95-142
Greek and Roman Jewelry and Objects of Art 143-188
Cypriote, Greek and Roman Stone Sculptures 189-216
SECOND SESSION
Thursday Afternoon, May Twelfth Graeco-Roman, Roman and Other Cameos, Intaglios, Seals
and Rings 217-245
Celtic, Early Christian and Byzantine Jewelry and Objects of Art 246-341 Early Christian and Byzantine Stone Sculptures 342-349
Romanesque and Gothic Bronzes, Dinanderie and Renaissance
Objects of Art 350-405
Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Wood Sculptures 406-432
THIRD SESSION
Friday Afternoon, May Thirteenth
Mexican, Peruvian and Other Pre-Columbian Art 433-484
Italian Renaissance Bronzes 485-503
Gothic and Renaissance Silver 504-529
Gothic and Renaissance Velvets, Moquettes, Damasks and
Embroideries 530-572
Romanesque and Gothic Stone Sculptures 573-597
Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Stained Glass 598-611
French and Italian Gothic and Renaissance Furniture and
Decorations 612-661
FOURTH AND LAST SESSION
Saturday Afternoon, May Fourteenth Old Master Drawings and Illuminated Miniatures Gothic and Renaissance Ivory Carvings Limoges, Mosan and Other Champleve and Painted Enamels Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance Rock Crystal and Other Objects de Vertu Romanesque and Gothic Stone Sculptures Tapestries and Oriental Rugs
French and Italian Gothic and Renaissance Furniture and Ironwork
Architectural Stone and Woodwork Vitrines and Other Gallery Equipment
662-669
670-700
701-745
746-764
765-792
793-796
797-850
851-860
861-888
FIRST SESSION
Wednesday, May ii, 1949, at 2 p. m.
CATALOGUE NUMBERS I TO 2l6 INCLUSIVE
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^ EGYmAN ANTIQUITIES
'T .'Three Carved Ivory and^^ne Ornaments
Ivory turtle-form box with swivel cover ; recumbent dog with broad collar ; and a bone spoon terminal in the form of a seated nude woman. [Lot.}
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Four Granite and Quartzite Jars Pre-dynastic gray and white veined marble bulbous jar; two second dynasty varie¬ gated gray marble granite ovoid jars; and a dark yellow quartzite coniform jar. [Lot] Heights 2^2 2^ inches
Collection of V. Everit Macy, New York, 1938
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,3. *Hematite Necklace and Two Small Carvings Middle Empire necklace of fifty ovoid beads with ram’s-head pendant; pre- dynastic small unguent jar; and an eighteenth dynasty miniature headdress.
‘q. ^Gold, Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise Scarab XU Dynasty
Of unusually fine workmanship, the bezel decorated with applied scrollwork in gold, the wings and head inlaid with lapis lazuli, the thorax with turquoise, divided by thin segments of gold.
ofjGarrett Chatfield Pier, New York, 1936
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''*'Five Silver and Gilded Silver Fragments of Vessels Ptolemaic Period '^Assorted small fragments, the silvered ground molded in relief with figural and other subjects embellished with gold onlays, one with a hieratic inscription trans¬ lated to read 1 make your house beautiful day and night. In case.
^ 6. Two Bronze Animal Statuettes Sait and Ptolemaic Periods
Staff finial crested by a recumbent jackal; and figure of a half-recumbent sheep with eold-inlaid cartouche and base engraved with hieroglyphs.
*Xwo Gold Rings 'with Engraved Inscriptions New Empire
^ One with oval top engraved with a royal cartouche, the other square, with two rows of hieroglyphs. [Lot.}
Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, New York, 1941
Lengths 2I4 and 3I4 inches
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'‘^;''*Electrum (Gold-Silver) Hawk Amulet XVIII-XIX Dynasty
Standing figure of the hawk, emblematic of Horus, with folded wings crossing over the tail feathers, and headdress surmounted by twin plantain leaves; pierced for suspension. Height iy^ inches
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1944
[See illustration}
9. *Gold and Emerald Matrix Necklack;:?^ XXI Dynasty
Chain of circular gold links, interrupted by three shaped emerald beads flanked by gold bobbin-form ornaments, the central round bead between tiny pearls; gold filigree clasp. Has stand.
Found in the Valley of the Kings, Upper Egypt Collection of Zakieh Pasha
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10. *Three Gold-Wrought Bronze Figurines New Empire
Silvered bronze figure of Osiris with flails; reclining nude youth with single¬ horned headdress; and a seated Nubian figure; inlaid with gold fillets. Together with a Ptolemaic bronze portrait ring. [Lot.} Height 2 to 3I/2 inches
[See illustration of one}
rOLD King wiTfi Glass Mosaic Scarab XVIII Dynasty
Gold ring, decorated with coils and a revolving scarab, the back enriched with green and blue glass pastes, the bezel with the tat of Osiris, emblematic of Stability.
Collection of Garrett Chatfield Pier, New York, 1936
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12'. *Carved Lapis Lazuli and Gold Figurine of Horus XXVI Dynasty Exquisite seated figure of the hawk-headed god, wearing a gold two-tiered crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, fronted by the uraeus; the underside en¬ graved as a seal. Height 2!/^ inches
Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1943
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i3r*GoLD Pectoral Inlaid with Lapis Lazuli XVIII Dynasty
Bird-form, the outstretched wings and tail inlaid with a delicate mosaic of lapis lazuli and turquoise, imbedded in tiny cells; the reverse wrought in gold as a human-headed bird. yjQ, Length 1% inches
Collection Tyskiewicz, 1898, pi. xxi,^ 171 Collection of Ercole Canessa, New York, 1930
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MAzoNiTE Head of a Priest
New Empire
Youthful shaven head carved with a faint smile, in diagonally streaked emerald green amazonite; on vert antique marble pedestal stand. Height 2 inches
Collection of Howard MacGregor, London, 1922
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/ Inlaid Glass Paste Fragments
Turquoise blue quadrangular bead; portion of a banded red and buff fish; tablet with bisected head of a maiden; and three fragments, one with inscription (translation) : Mut, Lady of Heaven, Mistress of the gods and Mut, Lady
of the Asheru, Lady of (^Heaven) . . ! [Lot.]
15. *Six Gold Ornaments
Twelfth dynasty string of thirteen beads, seven wrought as ducks; crane pend¬ ant; double bar clasp; amulet; and a pair of gold foil bangles. [Lot.]
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0 -16. * Carved Chalcedony Statuette of Sekhmet XV Ill Dynasty
Three-quarter-length statuette in purplish chalcedony, in case.
. Height 2^/2 inches
/ 17. *Two Silver and Electrum Figurines
Twenty-sixth dynasty figure of Isis, with moon disc headdress; and an electrum figure of a seated goddess with wig. Together with a silver utchat-tyt amulet. [Lot.] Heights 2I/2 and 3I/2 inches
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rs. Sculptured Granite Portrait Head XU Dynasty
Black granite head of a wistful youth with close-cropped hair. Has limestone pedestal. Height 3I/2 inches
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New Empire
Fragmentary eighteenth dynasty cup with relief decoration of herdsmen; and a steatite pectoral incised with a jackal, and coated with blue faience. [Lot.]
Heights 3 and 4 inches
^ 20. * Bronze Head Inlaid with Gold and Lapis Lazuli Ptolemaic Period
Handsomely modeled head of a sphinx, surmounted by a cobra crown; the eyes, eyebrows and ears inlaid with lapis lazuli and gold foil. Rich green patina.
Height 4!/^ inches
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^ 0^ 21. Sculptured Black Basalt Head XXVI Dynasty
Bearded classic head, wearing a plain headdress of rounded contours. From Thebes. Height 4 inches
[See illustration]
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AT top: numbers 20 AND 21
below: numbers 22-23-24
22. Bronze Statuette New Empire
Crisply modeled youthful male figure in kneeling posture wearing a flanged and striated headdress with uraeus, his hands resting upon his thighs as if holding an offering. Has stand. Height 5I/2 inches
Exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1946
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23. Carved Wood Cosmetic Box in the Form of a Deer New Empire Realistically carved as a captured deer with legs bound; originally fitted with swivel cover, now lacking. Has stand. Length 61^ inches
[See illustration]
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Twelfth dynasty brown marble head with smiling Negroid features; and a New Empire white limestone head of a youth wearing a headdress with broad flanges. Have stands. [Lot.} Heights 3I4
illustration of one on the preceding page}
S^LI ^TURED Marble Mask New Empire
Face of a youthful bearded dignitary wearing a plain headdress; in mellowed buff ribbon calcite. Has stand. Height 4 inches
^^5^26. Two Black and Green Basalt Jars Pre-Dynastic Era
Ovoid jar in green basalt; and a small-mouthed spherical jar of exceptional sym¬ metry. [Lot.}’ Heights 3^ and inches
27. Sculptured Black Basalt Portrait Head Roman Period
Depicting a youth with short hair and prognathous jaw, the eyes closely spaced. Has black marble stand. Height 4y^ inches
Collection of Henry Wallis, F.R.W.S, London, 1937
Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Art in Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1941 C A
j Q 28. Two Gray Granite and Black Basalt Jars
Pre-dynastic black basalt ovoid jar with two loop handles; and a second dynasty granite jar of related design. [Lot.} Heights 5!/^ and 5% inches
k, 1938
Basalt Fragment of a Portrait Head
XXVI Dynasty
Head of a young maiden, the delicate features exquisitely carved with a smiling expression; in greenish black basalt. Has stand. Height 4!/^ inches
From-^ikrap-Kglekian, New York
/ D —r Sculptured Black Granite Portrait Head XVIII Dynasty
Realistically modeled male head with short beard, framed in long wavy hair. Has griotte marble stand. Height 5 inches
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Collection of V. Everit i-iNELY Sculptured
Black and White Marble Bowl Pre-Dynastic Era
/ ^ Coniform small-mouthed bowl with broad flat inturned rim, in white marble with^ld black yei^gs. Diameter 6 inches
/ 3r2. SCULPTURED^IBBON Calcite ANIMALISTIC BowL Pre-Dynastic Era
/ ^/(y Designed as a compactly posed recumbent bull, in vertically banded ribbon cal¬ cite. Length 7!/^ inches
[See illustration}
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AT top: number 34 below: numbers 33-32-33
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33. Two Porphyry Jars 1-11 Dynasty
Second dynasty ovoid jar with tubular handles, in boldly crystalline gray and flesh pink stone; and a somewhat larger ovoid jar from Abydos. [Lot.]
Heights and 6^ inches
[See illustration]
34. Green and White Porphyry Jar
Squat round jar with two cylindrical handles and
and white porphyry.
[See illustration]
1-11 Dynasty broad flat rim, in deep green Length 10 inches
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35. Three Porphyry and Other Stone Jars 1-11 Dynasty
Squat two-handled jars; two in porphyry and black diorite with flat rims; the third bulbous, in gray marble. [Lot.] Lengths 4I/2 to -jy-, inches
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WO Ribbon Calcite Vases XII and XVIII Dynasty
Ovoid jar with flanged rim, and a globular ewer with strap handles; in banded buff calcite. [Lot.} ‘ Heights 6 and 6I4 inches
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Five ovid jars in granite, quartzite and marble, and a shallow ribbon calcite dish. [Lot.]
Collection of V. Everit Macy, New York, 1938
38.^Gold-Inlaid Bronze Figural Hair Ornament XXVI Dynasty
Shaped spatulate ornament inlaid with gold figures and a cartouche, and termi¬ nating in a crowned female head with fan-shaped necklace of concentric gold beads. Together with a small fragmentary bronze head of a man. [Lot.]
Length 6 inches
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39. Pale Turquoise Blue Faience Statuette of Bes XVIII Dynasty Vigorously modeled bare-bellied grotesque with hands on knees, and cartouche¬ shaped headdress. Height 6I4 inches
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-2^0. Three Sculptured Limestone Bas-Reliefs XXVI Dnyasty
Sculptor’s models in the form of two plaques carved with a duck and songbird, and a fragment depicting a bull. [Lot.] Lengths 4 to j inches
Sculptured Gray Granite Head XIX Dynasty
Strongly modeled head, the flat spreading coiffure hatched with rows of vertical lines, and arranged in ringlets across the forehead; an incised cartouche at rear.
Height 6 inches
0 ;. Finely Carded Woc5i3 Headrest XVIII Dynasty
In three sections; the detachable coi^ve oval top cupped in two exquisitely carved female hands, the slender incurvate stem and oval foot executed in deli¬
cate fluting and finished with a corded rim.
[See illustration]
Height 8I4 inches
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/O'" 4:3. Carved and Polychromed Wood Ushabti New Empire
Funerary statuette of Ken-amun, overseer of the cattle of Amun, with poly¬ chromed striped headdress and cartouche; on wood base carved with a lengthy inscription. Height 15!/^ inches
R. G. Gayer-Anderson Loan Collection, 1917, no, W42
[See illustration]
44. Sculptured W(^^ Torso Middle Kingdom
Armless torso of a priest with shaven head, depicted with deep eye sockets and unusually narrow waist. Has gray marble stand. Height 8l/^ inches
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Fayum Portrait Fresco / J IV Century A.D.
Oblong panel painted with a bust portrait of a wpman with short black hair (j\/ iX and rose pink gown. Framed. ii y 5!/^ inches ^ ^
Collection of Theodor Graf, Vienna
J- 46. Carved and Polychromed Wood Statuette of the Hawk Horus
" Ptolemaic Period
Deep brownish red hawk with yellow head, the plumage depicted with a dia¬ mond pattern; slab base. Height 15V2 ^^^ches
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-47. *Five Repousse Silver Ornaments Sait and Ptolemaic Periods
Large semicircular breast plate tooled with concentric bands of papyrus and geometric motives; scarab pectoral; tomb-shaped plaque with seated deities; and two narrow hieroglyphic panels. Together with a lead vasiform plaque. [Lot.] Lengths 4I4 14 inches
^ 2^8. Sculptured Black Basalt Portrait Bust Dynasty
Crisply carved portrait of a young man depicted at half length, with cloth head¬ dress and nude torso, the back incised with an adjuration on behalf of a courtier and the prince of Sais, chief of the domain of Neith. Height 13V2 laches Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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49. Three Prehistoric Chert Knives Large blade with slender handle, crescent- shaped scrapper; and a 'curved knife _ apparently broken in ancient times and repaired with gold foil and leather. ^ - [Lot.] Lengths 81/^ to 12!/^ inches
Collection of Howard MacGregor, London, 1922
^ ^ (Q Bronze and Carved Wood Implements
Bronze sistrum with figural handle and finial; eighteenth dynasty presentoir incised with lotus leaves; wood fan handle, spoon with hawk ornament, heart- shaped peg from a musical instrument; and a Syro-Egyptian carved and poly¬ chromed covered box, from Sakkara. [Lot.] Length 6 to i7[4 i^tches
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[number 52}
. — ^ 5tr: CTarved Alabaster Covered Jar with Cartouche of Thothmes III
/ " XVlll Dynasty
Pyriform jar with short flaring neck and wide flanged lip, in broadly banded creamy alabaster. Incised with a panel of hieroglyphs centring the cartouche of Thothmes III; disc cover etched with a circlet of hieratic inscriptions.
Height 9 inches
[See illustration]
Covered Jar with Cartouche of Thothmes III j ' XVIII Dynasty
Companion to the preceding, the inscription showing traces of blue pigment, the cover plain. Height 8I4 inches
[See illustration]
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53. Sculptured Marble Canopic Cover in the Form of a Head j New Empire
/ Head of a beardless dignitary wearing a hood-like headdress.
Height 1 8 14 inches
Note: Rare on account of its exceptional size; one of the few comparable known ex¬ amples is in the Cairo Museum.
From Paul Mallon, Paris
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54‘?K\iENCE Bas-Relief Portrait of Iuput XX/7 Dynasty
Full length portrait of a youthful monarch wearing helmet, necklace and tunic, and carrying an ankh in his right hand; at top, two cartouches, one translated to read Amen-mer-se-Bast , Input. Mounted on slate. ^ inches
Note: This rare plaque is believed to be the only extant representation of this king.
Collection of the Rev. W. Frankland Hood, London, 1924
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Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York, 1940 Described in Flinders Petrie, Ancient Egypt, 1925, pp. 1-2
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5 5. 'Po£^H^^^fej^^^'s^L^^fe^RAiT XVIII Dynasty
Oblong panel intaglio-carved with a female head in left profile, wearing a white hood over a coiffure dressed with red beads. Has stand. 13V2 inches
Note: The subject depicted here is apparently a princess of the family of Akhenaton.
[See illustration]
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6 ^5^;^i^ON 'Calcite Alabastron Ptolemaic Period
Attenuated oval vessel with two embryonic bracket handles, and cylindrical neck with flanged lip. Height 19 inches
5/ Sculptured Limestone Bas-Relief XVIII Dynasty
' "^Rectangular panel intaglio-carved with a half-length figure of Nefertiti in right profile, holding a lotus and staff before a male torso; at left, a panel of hiero¬ glyphs and the cartouche of Akhenaton. 9 x 2ol/^ inches
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^58/CARVEf) AND POLYCHROMED WooD UsHABTi XVIII Dynasty
Conventional mummy figure with crossed arms; tinted dark red, and showing traces of a black inscription and inlays of gold foil. Height 9!/^ inches
59. Sculptured and Polychromed Figural Bas-Relief Old Kingdom Roughly oval fragment depicting in low relief a male deity confronted by a youth holding a staff and whip, and a maiden with one hand resting upon his shoulder, a lotus in her other hand; polychromed terra cotta and umber, and incised with an upperjborder of hieroglyphs. Framed. ^iVl ^
66. "Sculptured and Polychromed Limestone Bas-Relief Middle Kingdom Upright rectangular panel carved in low relief with a youthful snake catcher in loin cloth, holding a forked staff and serpent-headed club; brown velvet mount.
22 X II inches
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61. Sculptured Brown Quartzite Figure New Empire
Fragmentary carving of a youth with hair dressed in horizontal ridges, seated with knees drawn up to support his crossed arms ; the back and sides incised with rows of hieroglyphs. On vert antique marble plinth. Height 23!/^ inches
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62. Two Papyrus Rolls from the Book of the Dead, with Illuminations
^ XXVI Dynasty
Large roll with four pages of demotic script rubricated in red, and an illuminated page in green, red, and white, depicting Khensu, the "Chief Lector of the Eter¬ nal Horizon”, placing an offering before Isis and Osiris; and a smaller roll in linear and hieratic characters, interrupted by a panel representing the Judgment of the Dead. Framed. [Lot.} 11% inches x 6 jeet 10 inches;
8 inches x 4 jeet 6 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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_r;5. i^APYRUS Roll from the Book of the Dead / I" Ptolemaic Period Executed in a cursive script in black with rubrication, interspersed with pictorial panels depicting numerous figures and deities including Osiris, Sekhmet, and others. Framed. 81/2 inches x lo jeet ii inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
.64. Sculptured and Polychromed Bas-Relief with Cartouche of Khufu
IV Dynasty
Rectangular portion of a tomb frieze depicting the deceased, a bearded male, seated before a table of offerings and three bands of hieroglyphics, centring the cartouche of Khufu. Framed. From the Tomb of Meruka at Gizeh.
13I/2 X 31 inches
From Parish -Watson & Co., Inc., New York
Described and illustrated in Junker’s Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschajten in Wien, 1926, p. 98
65.^Carved Wood Mummy Case ^""^^^if^^^olemaic Period .
Head of a woman with eyes inlaid with colored glass and/iarious finely knobbed 1 )
round headdress with long pendants terminating in friezes of cobras. Inscribed
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in black Horus, horn of Isis. Col^tion of Earl Amherst.
GiTPapyrus Roll from thj Colored Illuminations
Height 6 feet 10 inches
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Book of the Dead, with
XXVI Dynasty
Including portions of chapters dealing with the Fields of Aalu; water given by Nut; Adoration of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris; and Adoration of Mehurit; executed in bands of black and red hieroglyphs interspersed with numerous illustrations heightened in white, sky blue, green and gold foil. Framed.
12 inches X 8 feet ii inches
Collection of the Rev. W. Frankland Hood, Fondon, 1924 Collectipn of William RandolphT;J^rsL;New York
6/; Portion of the Hood Papyrus — Ptolemaic Period
Featuring an attenuated cartouche enclosmg figures of the protective deities of the larger Egyptian cities, continued as a border motive in alternation with bands of hieroglyphs. Framed. From Thebes. 8 feet 2 inches
Collection of the Rev. W. Frankland Hood, London, 1924 Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
Described in Pleijte, Over drie Handschriften op Papyrus Bekend Onder de Titals van Papyrus du Lac Moeris, du Fayoum, et du Labyrinth, Amster¬ dam, 1884
Described in Cope Whitehouse, Etudes Archeologiques . dediees d AI, le
Dr Leemanns
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[number 68]
RONZE Statuette of the Crowned Hawk Horus, of Important Size
XXVI Dynasty
O O yysJlnX^ representation of the falcon emblematic of Horus, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, fronted by the uraeus; the plumage delicately etched, the knees jointed. Nubian marble plinth. Height 15 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1921
[See illustration]
69. Sculptured Limestone Statuette of a Youth-^ XXVI Dynasty Erect figure with shaven head, straight arms with clenched hands, and right foot advanced; wearing a mask pendant, and loincloth; carved with hieroglyphs at back. Height 31 inches
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POLYCHROMED WOOD
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:oFFiN OF Priest An-Heru IV Dynastry Rectangular coffin and flat cover constructed of heavy slabs, and painted with band of sky blue hieroglyphics on a yellow ochre ground ; the interior elaborately decorated with polychromed bands of phonetic glyphs and ideographs, centring at base a blue stripe symbolizing the celestial Nile.
Height 2o1/4 inches; length 7 feet i inch
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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Small boat with five standing oarsmen, and a figure holding a cask.
Length 15 inches
Collection of Florence L. Rauh, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1940
■J2. Ribbon Calcite Table and Sculptured Limestone Capital Low table in two sections, with circular top and short conical support curving out at the base; and a Ptolemaic papyrus-carved limestone capital. [Lot.]
Diameter inches
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"73. Four Bronze Weapons
Crescent-shaped axe head or glaive ; pole axe with original wood shaft, and two daggers, one having shoulder wrought with two ducks’ heads. [Lot.}
/ . Lengths 11V2 to 21^ inches
^y.p^^^D'SLATE^^I^FORM PALETTE, AND STEATITE VaSE Pre-dynastic piscine palette in green slate; and a steatite vase of elliptical section, wi^Mt cpyj^r and^o j^eral vertical ridges. [Lot.} Height of vase 81/^ inches
75. Six Carved Flint And Other Small Ornaments
Fourth dynasty gray limestone tablet; eighteenth dynasty buff flint model of a writer’s palette, incised with the cartouche of Queen Hat-shep-sut; limestone hieratic pedestal; twenty-sixth dynasty green marble tablet with head of Bes, kaolinite crouching figure of the cat Bast; and a chalcedony ram’s head. [Lot.} ^ Lengths 1I4 to 5I4 inches
■jb. Eight Onyx Marble and Other Small Stone Vessels Pre-dynastic fluted cup, ovoid ewer, and three brown and green stone vases; twelfth dynasty blue alabaster unguent bottle; Ptolemaic amphora; and a banded grav ^gate alabastron^[L0;'} - . ' Heights to 5 inches
77. *Ten Semi-Precious Stone Miniature Carvings
Three frogs in emerald, smoky agate and carnelian; amazonite figurine, bead, and hawk amulet; smoky agate lion amulet; carnelian bull and duck; and a sard burnisher. Together with four Babylonian hematite animals. [Lot.}
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78. Five Faience Miniature Articles Plaquette with cartouches of Psammeticus and his son ; green faience group of Isis and Horus; deep turquoise blue figurine of Thouens; alabastrum-shaped pend^t; and a heart-shaped c^metjc^r.. [Lot.] Lengths to 2% inches
78A. *SixTEEN Egyptian and Babylonian Semi-Precious Stone Amulets Including a lapis lazuli seated figurine, diorite jackal’s head, carnelian lamb, and
bla^ basalt hor^. [Lot.]
COLLECTION OF STEATITE AND OTHER SCARABS AND SEALS Chiefly in steatite, carved as scarabs and scaraboids, though including a few in carnelian, amethystine quartz and faience. Together with a Coptic bronze seal ring, ^fty-eighlr pieces in all. [Lot.]
"wenty-Three Faience and Ivory Gaming Pieces ^
Comprising conical and mushroom-shaped pieces, chiefly in turquoise blue faience, and including several in the form of the heads of deities, and a pair of.
ivory knuckle bones. [Lot.]
Collection of the Rev. Frankland Hood, London, 1924
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ASSYRIAN, BABYLONIAN, CHALDEAN AND OTHER EARLY ^ MIDDLE EASTERN OBJECTS OF ART
81. Seven Small Babylonian, Chaldean and Hittite Figurines Babylonian lead statuette of a man, miniature stone bust, and amulet in the form of a sleeping swan; Chaldean miniature bronze head with long neck; two small Hittite carved ivory amulets of Bes and Ashtoreth, pierced; and a Scythian bron^ figurine with exten^^ aim^[I^^ ’ Heights 1V2 3 inches
82'^Proto-Caucasian a joijre Bronze Animalistic Plaque Beautifully wrought in relief and pierced with a stag having scrolled horns, and birds perched on its chest and underfoot ; set within a square frame chased with a herringbone pattern and molded bosses at the corners. Green patina. Circa 1000 B.C. Length 4 inches
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 415
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83. Proto-Caucasian Bronze Animalistic Applique
Highly stylized figure of a horse in stretched gallop. Brilliant green and reddish patina. Length 61/4 inches
From Vignier, Paris
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 416
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AT top: number 84 BELOW: NUMBER 85
4.‘’t;HALDEAN SCULPTURED DiORITE HeAD Bald head of a man, probably a scribe, with smiling countenance.
Height 6 inches
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85. Two Assyria!^ WROUGH'T^R'tiNZE Bas-R^Itef Plaquettes 0 Frieze plaquettes, one depicting a processioii 6f figures to the left carrying bur¬ dens, with cuneiform inscription above; the other a file of soldiers with pointed hats and swords, carrying logs, over a knoll to the left, with three priests at the right walking in the opposite direction. Framed. [Lot.]
Lengths ii and 14 inches
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Ienician Engraved Gilded Bronze Bowl Shallow rounded bowl bossed at centre with a chrysanthemum with engraved petals, surrounded by a finely engraved border of four walking sphinxes, sepa¬ rated by anthemion motives. Diameter 5^ inches
Collection of Arthur Upham Pope, New, York
I7'. Proto-Caucasian Bronze Pectoral and Girdle Ornament Pectoral in the form of a ring hung with numerous short chains of bell-like orna¬ ments, green patina; and a belt ornament in the shape of a double axe head rudely engraved with pairs of birds’ wings, green and red patina. [Lot.]
Lengths 6I4 and 5I4 inches
CollectioQ'of Dr Alfred Salmom
Gollecti^ot L;r Altred t^aJ
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88. Babylonian ScuLPTURrii5 Stone Animal Head and Small Relief Head of a ram in white argillaceous pipe clay, hollow; and fragment of a marble relief with figure^pf-^ bull. [Lot.] Lengths 5^ and 4!/^ inches
‘^8^?Hm'iTE Bronze Sphinx Applique Animal-headed figure with spread wings engraved with scale pattern and hatch¬ ing, and with scale-pattern corselet; the skirted legs standing on a shaped half- round pedestal; red and green patina. Height 8^ inches
From Tabbagh Freres, Paris
Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum, Cleveland, O., 1944
b.'' Assyrian Stucco Bas-Relief Portrait Head Modeled in right profile, the head of a bearded dignitary wearing a red-tinted headdress resembling a tasseled fez. Mounted on ebony panel.
Height lol/^ inches
Collection of 1. N. Phelps Stokes, New York
5ABAEAN ( PARTHIAN ) BRONZE VESSEL WITH RAM HANDLE Cylindrical vessel on high and wide flaring foot, terminating at the rear in a tall back plate into which is fitted a standing figure of a ram or ibex, forming the handle. Mottled red and malachite green patina. Circa I Century B.C.
Height II inches
Collection of N. Muncherjee, Aden
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 300
[See illustration]
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<2y'CHiNESE Engraved Pewter Wine Ewer T’ang
"Pear-shaped jug with spouted lip and recurved loop handle, on tray foot; en¬ graved with two cartouches, one enclosing a plumage bird amid foliations, the other a mounted archer aiming his bow at a flying crane. Earth brown patina. Rare. Height 13^ inches
Collection of Yamanaka and Co., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1944 Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 427
[See illustration]
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9^. “Babylonian (or Chaldean) Black Basalt Bowl Almond-shaped bowl, hollowed from a heavy piece of basalt.
/Id//)/) Length 111/4^ inches
.-=94.'jrfiTTiTE Sculptured Marble Bas-Relief
Oblong fragment carved in low relief with a waist-length archer in left profile, wearing a pointed hat and carrying a shield and sword. Mounted on ebony panel. 17I4 9 inches
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;EA^Y PERSIAN AND ARABIC OBJECTS OF ART
>5. iwo^A^HiAN Repousse Gold and Silver Buttons MI Century Composed of nve cupolas patterned with chased rosettes interspersed with bosses, on plain bulbous^dies. [Lot.}
' . *Seljuk Gold Ring and Earring XII-XIII Century
The ring with rectangular bezel wrought with an engraved stellate cartouche en¬ closing two confronted birds, and flanked by interlaced bosses ; the earring chased with a filigree band of beading and having twdn bulbous pendants. [Lot.} Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1941
97. *Fatimid Carved Rock Crystal Locust Figurine Xll Century
Carved insect with folded wings, in clear rock crystal. Length 1I/2 inches
Colleton of Charles N. Edge, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1946
98. *Two Fatimid carved Rock Crystal Bibelots XI-XII Century
One in the form of a fish; the other a floriform tear bottle. [Lot.}
Lengths and i inches
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-99. *Fatimid Carved Rock Crystal Ornament and Tear Bottle
XI-XII Century
Bulbous ornament with carved stellate mushroom finial ; and a cylindrical bottle carved with foliated volutes. Together with a circular smoky agate amulet carved with a five-armed moline cross. [Lot.} Lengths 1I4 2I4 inches
^oa^FATfMib Gold-Mounted Rock Crystal Tear Bottle XII Century Small ovocylindrical jar with gold filigree chrysanthemum cover and serpent- form neck mount. Height lYg inches
Collection of Sir Francis Cook, Bart., Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey Collection of Wyndham Cook, Esq., London, 1925 Collection of Charles N. Edge, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1946
'Post-Sassanid Repous^ Gilded Silver Plaquette IX-X Century Fragmental coffer molding, representing a mounted falconer.
Length inches
From Stora, New York
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 324
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102. THI^^ARTHIAN and OTjagTCbRONZE ANIMA^fSflC ORNAMENTS Parcel-gilded figure of a running stag; stylized bM figurine; and an animalistic ornament representing two goats standing on a^am’s head.
Lengths to 3^ inches
XII-XIII Century Diameter 2^/2 inches
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103. *SELjuk Wrought Silver Child’s Bracelet Rope-molded bracelet with knotted ends.
104. *Two Achaemenid SiLy^R Bracelets Wrought circlets, with dog ^d abstract snak
VI-IV Century B.C. ead terminals, respectively. Diameter zyg and 3 inches
105. *AeMA^EMENiD Gold-Inlaid Silver Figurine of a Man
V -IV Century B.C.
Standing figure of a bearded man in long robe and high-peaked cap, the left hand across the body, while the right holds a bow resting upon the ground. Rare.
Height 2y^ inches
International Exhibition of Persian Art, Burlington House, London, 1931 Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 319
106. Two "^Eatimid Bronze BMr^^AftiETTES Xl-XIl Century
Stylized figures of spread eagles, one with naturalisticMy engraved plumage, the other having brilliant green patination. [Lot.] Heights 2^/^ and 3!/^ inches
107. *Rhages Chased-Tarcel-Gilded Silver Coffret XII-XIII Century Small oblong casket incised with figures amid scrolling foliations, the corners and cover reinforced with parcel-gilded scrolled strappings and hinges with two heavy wrought bands in relief. The bottom with brilliant green patination. Rare. Length 3!/^ inches
From Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York
International Exhibition of Persian Art, Burlington House, London, 1931
Exhibited at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 1938
Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1944
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108/ Pre-^c^em:^id Bronze Statuette of a Goat Standing :^gure with vigorously modeled features, beard and two large horns, green patina. Marble base. Length 3I/2 inches
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 302
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Bronze Candle Holder with Figures of Saints X///-X7K Century
Double-banded tubular form; damascened in silver and gold, the lower collar with five standing figures of saints within arched niches, the upper portion with three inscriptions. Together with a Seljuk cannon-form tube wrought with a gazelle. [Lot.] Height 3^ inches
From H. K. Monif, New York
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o.’^iELjuK Engraved Bronze Statuette of a Cat XU Century
Recumbent figure of a cat, her head turned to the left facing the observer; the body engraved with an allover pattern of imbrications; hollow cast.
Length 6 inches
[See illustration]
atimid/Bronze Statuette of a Bird Xll Century
Standing figure of a hollow-cast bird, the back and neck pierced with panels of guilloches, the wings fronted with a roundel and the tips and tail feathers en¬ graved with lappets. Height 7I4 inches
[See illustration]
ii:^'Sassanid Bronze Applique of a Sphinx V-Vl Century
Striding half-figure with a leonine body and female head; the back with remov¬ able wing. Fine variegated patina. Length 7I4 inches
[See illustration]
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d^-ci^.'XcHAEMENiD Bronze Chariot ORNAMENT VI-IV Century B.C.
Finely modeled head of a young ram with wool in relief across the forehead decoratively conventionalized; reddish brown patina. Length 4!/^ inches
From Sangiorgi, Rome^^^
Exhibitiom^^^fsjmTArt, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 320 A illustration]
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AT top: numbers 1 14 AND 1 10 AT centre: NUMB5R-II2 BELOW: NUMBERS II3 AND III
1 14. Sass^a^et'^onze Elephant’s Mask Circa VI Century
Finely modeled head with large ears and angular trappings; said to have been the end of a balance. Brilliant emerald green patina. Height 6 inches
From Demotte, Inc., New York
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 329
[See illustration]
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f^'^Two ?re-Achaemenid Bronze Animal Statuettes Highly stylized figures of a horse wearing a collar about the arched neck, and with short staff emerging from a cincture; and the recumbent figure of a lion, showing traces of green patination. Lengths 4I/8 arid 4I/2 inches
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. pp. 303 and
305
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'10. Sel^uk Engraved Bronze Shallow Bowl XII-XIII Century
Engraved with a quasi-Sassanid design of a central figure of a king on a divan within a rim band of inscriptions. Diameter 4!^ inches
Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1944
' 117. *Persian Engraved and Silver-Damascened Bronze Box
Xlll Century
Cylindrical vessel with pierced dome cover having figural triple sphinx finial; finely engraved with figural panels and floral medallions, the cover with a band of masks and bird roundels; and damascened in silver with inscriptions.
Height 4I/8 inches
Illustrated in the Bulletin of the Iranian Institute, New York, December, 1946
0 1 18. *Sassanid Wrought Silver Armlet V -VI Century
Thick circlet repousse with human and animal figures and various leaf and floral motives. Diameter 4^ inches
From Fahim Kouchakji, New York
-Tip. *Post-Sassanid Engraved Silver Bowl IX-X Century
circular bowl engraved and repousse with a hunting scene centring the ^ equestrian figure of Bahram Gur turning about in the saddle to aim his bow at
a ram; and surrounded by a lion, eagle, ibex and other animals.
Diameter inches
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p.
Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1944
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[numbers 120 AND (ABOVE) II9]
120. *AcIl^^E]^NID Repousse Gold-^nd VII-VI Century B.C.
Oblong flat hammered gold band repousse with floral rosettes interspersed with double anthemion motives, within beaded borders. Found in Ramadan.
Length lo inches
Collection of Dr Ernst Herzfeld, Princeton, N. J.
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P2I. URE-ACHAEMENID 1 ERRA COTTA HEAD OF A LlON Stylized mask of a snarling animal, hollow-cast; in brown pottery with traces of reddish color. Has stand. Together with a green steatite bowl relief-decorated with crude figures and a bull’s mask. [Lot.} Height 5 inches
Collection of Mrs Christian R. Holmes, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1942 Exhibited at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., no. 53 Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940 Described and illustrated in Pope and Ackerman, A Survey of Persian Art, 1938, vol. I, p. 307, fig. 73
^122. *Seljuk Repousse Silver Fluted Bowl /' XII-XIII Century
Deep circular bulbous bowl repousse with a central lotus rosette, a ring of lap¬ pets and radial flutings, the border with demi-rosettes. Brown patina.
Diameter 6 inches
123. *Seljuk Silver-Damascened Bronze Perfume Burner Xlll Century
Cylindrical, with domed cover having knob finial; on three human legs. The body elaborately damascened in silver with floral arabesques, the cover similarly ajoure; below the finial is an inlaid collar of inscriptions, and signature of the artist Hurain ibu Abi-Bakr. - Height 7^ inches
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1944
124. *Seljuk Engraved and Silver-Daj^scened Bronze Porte-Lampe
XII-XIII Century
Circular skeleton frame composed of seven large openwork roundels joined by circlets, and having pairs of stylized birds inscribed and damascened in silver and copper. Diameter 20 inches
Exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O., 1931 and 1944 Exhibited at the. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1943
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125. Sel'juk Engraved Bronze Bowl XIII Century
Bulbous vessel with ajoure circular foot; engraved with six roundels enclosing harpies between bands of inscriptions. Height 6y^ inches
Collection of Arthm: Upham Pope-dM^ York ^
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AT top: numbers 126 AND 125 below: number 124
126. *Seljuk Silver- and Gold-Damascened Bronze Candlestick
Xll Century
Short columnar shaft with bobbin-form bobhhe, on bell-shaped base; elabo¬ rately damascened in silver and gold with vignettes of mounted huntsmen in¬ cluding falconers, spearmen and bowmen, amid trailing floral branches, and interspersed with gold-inlaid roundels; fragmented at rear. Height 8l/g inches
[See illustration]
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/^7:''*'Achaemenid Repousse Silver Phiale ‘ VI-V Century B.C.
Shallow circular bowl repousse with a rosette ol fourteen lotus stamens with magnified seeds; the exterior with incised petal decoration. Found in Mazan- deran. Diameter 12 inches
Collection of T. L. Jacks, London Exhibited at the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 1906 Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 317
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128. *AcHAEME^^ID RepouSs^Smlver Phiam- — Vl-V Century B.C.
Shallow circular bowl repousse with a^^sette of fourteen lotus stamens, the stems radiating from a central roundeg the exterior with incised decoration, and brown patination. Diameter 12 inches
Collection of Arthur Upham Pope, New York
Exhibited at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1940, cat. no. 49c Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 317 Mentioned in Parnassus, Feb. 1940, p. 34
[See illustration]
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[NUMBffL 129}
129. Pre-Achabi^j^iI) Bronze Statuette of a Bull
Vigorously modeled horned animal with humped shoulder and wrinkled throat, and with pierced flanges emerging from the ribs. Found in Dabul, on the Cas¬ pian Sea. Length 12I/2 inches
[See illustration]
130. Achaemenid Repousse Bronze Wine Bowl V-IV Century B.C.
Shallow circular bowl with flaring rim; repousse with a rosette of seven lotus stamens. Shows traces of brilliant green patination. Diameter 6I/2 inches
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 320 (as pre-i^haemenid )
1 31. Syro- Arabic Polychromed Iridescent Blue Glass Pitcher
IX-XI Century
Ovoglobular vessel with cylindrical neck flaring to the ringed mouth, and plain loop handle with knuckle billet; showing traces of brilliant rainbow iridescence and mustard yellow polychromy, and decorated in shades of blue, green and iron red with stylized floral rosettes and leaf motives. Height 9^ inches
From Fahim Kouchakji, New York
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Y^NlS^iXKjR'GRAY^TEATITE COVERED BOWL WITH KUFIC INSCRIPTIONS Cylindirical bowl with two flange handles and flat cover with pierced handgrip; carved in flat relief with panels of Kufic inscriptions, between trellised rim bands. Diameter 8^ inches
Note: Dr Ernst Herzfeld of Princeton, N. J. states that this bowl is apparently unique, and believes it to have been excavated in Khorassan (Eastern Persia) in the neighborhood of Nishapur.
[See illustration]
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I ^,;I%rsian Pre -Historic Sculptured Gray Limestone Statuette Of a Bull
Primitively sculptured virile figure of a recumbent bull, with small head and large scrolled horns. Length ii inches
Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
[See illustration}
Achaemenid Bronze Oviform Vase with Handle Vl-lV Century B.C. Ovoid vessel with small mouth and flaring rim, the strap handle composed of three serpents terminating in a demilune rosette; and with median-banded shoulder. Height 14 inches
Collection of Prof. V. G. Simkhovitch, New York
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f 135. *Seljuk Engra^d and Damascened Gilded £^^ze Jug O O^By Mu’Allam Qasim y XIII Century
Fluted pear-shaped body with ringed cylindrical flaring neck, round foot, and S-scrolled handle; engraved with bands of foliage scrolls and inscriptions, and inlaid in silver with tiny cartouches. Signed inside the lip. Height 7 inches Collection of Paul Gamier, Paris
Exhibition of Persian Art, Iranian Institute, New York, 1940, cat. p. 411
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Tripod cylindrical vessel in the form of a mosque, the semi-dome fronted with a pierced mihrab flanked by two scrolled bird heads and with bird finial ; the whole engraved with guilloche and scroll motives. Height lo}/^ inches
Collection of Dr Richard Bernheimer, New York
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137. Fatimid (.^) Wrought Copper Statuette of an Owl
Erect figure of an owl with sharply hooked bill and curling talons, resting upon
his tail; chased with bands of vertical plumage. Height 19I/2 inches
Note: An extraordinary object, the provenience of which has been much debated and remains undetermined.
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138. Achaemenid Finely Sculptured Limestone Bas-Relief
Circa V Century B.C.
Rectangular fragment depicting at three-quarters length a helmeted male figure ascending steps, and carrying a bowl in each hand. Mounted on walnut panel. From Persepolis. 23 x ii inches
Collection of Prof. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Mass.
Exhibited at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, O., 1947
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' (^6>.X39. Achaemenid Finely Sculptured Limestone Bas-Relief
Circa V Century B.C.
Profile head to left of a warrior with headdress of stiff erect plumes, and tightly curled hair and beard, a bow and quiver slung on his shoulder. From Persepolis.
21 a: 22 inches
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140 *Seljuk Silver-Damascened Bronze Circular Dish XII-XIII Century Shallow round bowl centring an engraved arabesqued roundel, the flaring rim engraved with interlaced scrollings enclosing petals damascened in silver.
Diameter 13 inches
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E41. Seljuk Wrought Bronze Lamp and Tripod Stand Xll Ceyitury Boat-shaped spouted lamp surmounted by two bird figures continuing to an arched handle; and a burner stand with three leonine supports, interrupted by figures of eagles. [Lot.] Length 61/^ inches
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lAaTCbELECTION'lDF (^HER Chessmen
ERSiAN, Alexandrian, Arabic and
Beehive- shaped pieces as follows: Three in manganese violet and two in lemon yellow glass ; six in fluted turquoise blue or gray faience ; five in carnelian with engraved hatching, four in bloodstone similar; three in agate; seven in ivory, fluted or engraved; and four in calcined ivory. Together with two carved ivory elephant pieces and twenty-four carved ivory pieces of various types, mainly cap¬ stan-form pawns. In all, 6o pieces. [Lot.}
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)MAN JEWELRY AND OBJECTS OF ART [edallion of the Emperor Gallienus
IRE^ AND * Roman GpLi>
Four aurei {equiv. wt.), obverse, bust of Gallienus to right with inscription, re¬ verse, standing Hercules with inscription; reeded loop suspension, also original.
Diameter 1I/3 inches
Note: An identical piece was in the Prussian State coin collection in Berlin and is recorded in Gnecchi I, 7, i6. A very rare example.
From Charles L. Morlpy, ^Slew York
14. *Roman Gold Medallion of the Emperor Magnentius Two solid! of Magnentius (350-353), struck at Treves; obverse, bust to right with inscription, reverse, seated figure of Rome on a shield holding a lance and a tiny Victory. Diameter il/g inches
Note: This medallion is believed to be unique. It comes from a find at Morenhoven, near Bonn, and was published by L. Strauss in the Frankfurter Minzzeitung, 1932, p. 384, pi. 6. There are said to be only six other gold medallions of Magnentius known, all of different types and struck at Aquilea. See also Jocelyn Toynbee, Numismatic Studies, No. 5, Roman Medallions.
From Charles L. Morley, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947
145. Collection of Eight Roman and Byzantine Gold Coins Solidus of Valentinianus I (364-375), Cohen no. 43; aureus of Maximianus Herculius (286-310), from the Arras treasure, not in Cohen, rare; solidus of Constans (327-350), Cohen no. 140, rare; solidus of Valentinianus I (364-375), struck in Antioch, Cohen no. 28; solidus of Constantinus III (407-411), Cohen no. 5; solidus of Magnentius (350-353), Cohen no. 46; solidus of the Byzan¬ tine Emperor Theodosius II (408-450), Sabatier no. 14; solidus of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (525-565). Together with a Gallic bronze denarius of the Aedui and a Byzantine bronze coin of Michael II and Theophilus. [Lot.}
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FIRST SESSION
146. *Four Greek and Roman Gold Rings
Three with almond-shaped bezels intaglio-cut with a head of Athene, an angel adjusting his sandal, and a figure seated astride a horse; the fourth boldly wrought in relief with a putto-head boss. [Lot.}
Collection of Henry Waltep, New York
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147. * Greek Wrou^t Gold Miniature Figurine of a Sparrow Hawk
Tiny bird figure with beautifully worked feathers; on miniature Belgian black marble pedestal. Circa 450 B.C. Height ^ inch
Collection of Lord Carmichael of Kirling, London, 1926 Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924
148. *Graeco-Roman Jeweled Gold Terminal Bust of a Vestal
P 0^ Head with hollow eyes and hair piled in a topknot and dressed with a diadem inset with cabochons, seed pearls hung from the ears. Height 1 inch
Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1943
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Pairs Etruscan Filigree Gold Earrings One pair with crescent-shaped bands paneled with filigree rosettes ; the other in the form of rosetted and perforated bosses hung with small pyramid devices.
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150. *Pair Etruscan Wrought Gilded Silver Plaquettes
Narrow bands divided into three panels, each wrought in bas-relief with a pair
of affrontes figures clasping hands. Length inches
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151. *Pair Levanto-Roman Gold Ornaments
In the form of a turn of spiraled wire applied with three floral rosettes, and re- serhbling a species of hanging candelabrum. Height 2% inches
152. *Greek Rock Crystal Amphora with Gold Foot c5^L^^^vocylindrical vase, the shoulder joined to the lip by two L-shaped handles; mounted on gold foot. Height 3^ inches
Collection of J. P. Haseltine, Esq., London Collection of R. W. M. Walker, Esq., London, 1945
[See illustration on the following page]
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[numbers 152 AND 153]
153. *Archaic Greek Gold Torque Penannular ring terminating in cylindrical pieces supporting globose lion masks of archaic type, supporting between them an ornament in the form of a double- faceted bead; applied in gold upon a matrix of bronze. Diameter 8 inches Collection Guilhou, Paris, 1905 Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
[See illustration}
154. "^Seven Greek Graeco-Roman Gold Rings Four Greek rings, wrought with conventional motives, a warrior’s head in pro¬ file, and an inscription; and three Graeco-Roman, with lozenge medallion, dotted crescent and an engraved lancer. [Lot.}
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY IlTH
.OT OF Small Roman and Other Gold Ornaments Pair of spiraled loop earrings terminating in lion heads, and a tiny gold bee, from a tomb in Samsum (Amissus) ; four necklace beads; pair of gold stellate earrings; Greek beaten gold fragment; unguent spoon; and spirally twisted elec- trum (gold-silver) ear spoon, probably Mycenean. [Lot.]
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^6. ^Two*" Small Roman Rock Crystal Tear Bottles Pyriform bottle with ring-molded neck; and an octagonal bottle with round neck and two small loop handles for suspension, from the Sir Francis Cook collection. [Lot.] Height inches
157. *Roman Silver Statuette of ^^outh IV Century
Standing figure wearing short tunic,Miolding a bowl in his right hand and a cornucopia in his left arm. Height 3% inches
Collection of Prof. V. G. Simkovitch, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 356
"^58. Four Alexandrian and Roman Bronze Figurines Three knife handles, one representing a dog licking its puppies, copper red pa¬ tina; another chiseled with lioness attacking an ox, red patina with green incrus¬ tations; the third a head of a horse; and small figure of an eagle perched on the head of a ram. [Lot.] Heights 2% to 4I4 inches
T^.Tour Small Greek and Other Bronze Ornaments Forearm and hand, finely modeled, from a statue; handle depicting a satyr with upraised left arm, green patina; small statuette of a deer, probably Cretan; and Etruscan nude figure of a prizefighter wrapped in a loincloth. [Lot.]
Heights 3 /o 5I/4 hiches
:6o. Roman Carved Bone Plaquette and Knife Handle Rectangular plaquette carved in bas-relief with figure of Apollo holding a lyre; and knife-handle in the form of a crouching ibex. [Lot.]
Heights 3 [4 3V2 itiches
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* Graeco-Roman Bronze Portrait Head, Inlaid with Silver Q I Century B.C.
Hollow-cast head of an elderly man with finely modeled features, the bald head covered with a meandering floral vine; some of the leaves and the eyes are ap¬ plied in silver. Length 2^ inches
[See illustration]
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162. Two Graeco-Levantine Bronze Animal Statuettes Reclining figure of a lion with crossed forepaws, found in Anana; and a crouch¬ ing mouse with heavily encrusted green patina. [Lot.]
Lengths 4 and 2I4 inches
[See illustration of one]
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163. Two Etruscan Bronze Balsamaria, in the Form of O Women’s Heads III Century B.C.
Head with coiffed wavy hair, on round base, the skull pierced with an orifice and hung by chains from loops; green patina. Heights 4 and 4^ inches
Note; Bronzes of this type are in the Bibliotheque Nationale; see the catalogue by Babelon and Blanchet, p. in, nos. 255-6.
Collection of Sir Francis Cook, Bart., Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey Collection of Wyndham Francis Cook, Esq.
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
Described and illustrated in C. H. Smith and C. A. Hutton, Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Collection of the Late Wyndham Francis Cook, Esqre., 1908, nos. 44 and 45, pi. xxxiv
[See illustration of one]
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164. Roman Bronze Statuette of a Bear Hollow-cast sitting figure with one paw raised, the head hinged. Green patina.
Height 4I4 inches
165. Etruscan Bronze Spearhead and Engraved Mirror
Tapering pointed spear blade upon a hollow fluted tube; and a polished round mirror engraved with a nude dancing figure between two birds. [Lot.]
Diameter of mirror 5^ inches
l-ll Century
[See illustration of mirror]
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY IlTH
AT TOP: NUMBERS 1 62 AND 161 AT CENTRE: NUMBERS 165 AND 163
below: numbers i66 and 164
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166. Roman Bronze Statuette of a Dog^^ l-ll Century
Hollow-cast crouching figure of a large shaggy shepherd dog, sleeping with his head on his forepaws. Dark greenish patina. Found in Syria.
Length 61/^ inches
From Demotte, Inc., New York
' [See illustration]
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167. Levanto-Roman Bronze Statuette of a Man III -IV Century
Small standing bearded figure wearing a long coat and high pointed hat, prob¬ ably the continuation of a handle; on Belgian black marble pedestal.
Height 4yg inches
Fr^a Fahfi^l^uchakjh Nej5i>¥Q^ y
168. *Graeco-K6man Sila^r Wine Stralj^T^r and Miniature Dish
Mammiform strainer pierced with a cent^ rosette and three formal borders in pinhole work, the two flat lugs with dependent loop handles ; from the Hearst collection. Oval miniature platter wrought with frieze of animals in bas-relief; fromjhe Henrf'w alters collection. [Lot.} Lengths 5!/^ and 31/g inches
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p Gallo-Roman Gilded Bronze Figure of a Triton III Century
Hollow-cast fragment in the half-round, with male body sheathed in a serpentine tail. Together with a small applique bronze bust of Bacchus with gold eyes. [Lot.] Heights 4^^ and 4I4 inches
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170. Graeco-Levantine Bronze Lamp, in the Form of a Foot ~ Human foot shod with a draped sandal, the big toe resting against the spout; hinged cover in the form of a horse’s head. Inscribed underfoot with owner’s name Ahmhtpioy. Copper red patina. Length 5I4 inches
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- 1 71. Roman Bronze Model of a Chariot ' Circa II Century
Small rectangular cart with railed sides and two wheels; greenish patina.
Length 6I/2 inches
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172. Greek Red-Figured Terra Cotta Hydria V Century B.C.
Ovoid vase with incurvate neck and three loop handles, reserved in red on a black ground with figure of a nude winged youth offering a mantle to a seated pri^ess._ ^ ' Height 9^ inches
/ // Gkl'EK’B'L'AcK-Fi^RED Terra Cotta Alabastron and Two Lekythoi
/ O r- ^ VI Century B .C.
Lekythoi decorated in black on a buff ground, one with a hoplite battling a cen¬ taur with spears, the other with two maidens riding accompanied by dogs; the alabastron depicting a procession of dancers and musicians. [Lot.]
/> CA Aj/L * Heights 71/2 to 8I/2 inches
/ Corinthian Black and Purple-Figured Terra Cotta
' Alabastron-Form Jug VII Century B.C.
Ovoid with small orifice, flat rim and tiny loop handle; decorated on a buff ground in black and purple with a kneeling winged male figure and a bird amid rosettes. Height 8% inches
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY I ITH
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[NUMBER 175}
175. Graeco-Roman Three-Cc^lor Pottery Spouted Lamp Boat-shaped, with long flaring spout and interesting rustic carrying handle with faceted horizontal grip. The lamp is glazed an ochre yellow, reserved only with four groups of tiny aubergine blossoms and green leaves modeled in relief upon the sides and the flat upper portion of the spout. Very rare. Length 9 inches Collection of Emile Tabbagh, New York From Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., New York
[See illustration]
176. Greek Black-Figured Terra Cotta Two-Handled Bowl
VI Century B.C.
Slightly rounded cylindrical bowl with two loop handles, decorated in black on a red ground with a frieze band of two racing chariots, enclosed between anthemia.
Length 10^ inches
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177. ^EEK Black an
hite-F^ured Terra Cotta Skyphos-Form Bowl
VI Century B.C.
Deep rounded coniform bowl with two loop handles, decorated in black and buff on a pale reddish ground with a frieze of youths, women, priests and seated harpies, between formal borders. Length inches
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Greek Red-Figured Terra Cotta Amphora V Century B.C.
Wide-mouthed pyriform jar with two loop handles, reserved in red on a black ground, the obverse with a maiden presenting shield and helmet to a robed youth, the reverse with a figure of a sage wrapped in a mantle.
Height 9^ inches
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179. Roman Wrought Bronze Door Handle / Century
Unusually large handle, with grip in the form of conjoined leaves and two an- themion plates. Together with a smaller Italiote bronze handle terminating in a palmette, with two adosses lions. [Lot.} Length 15!/^ inches
Collection of the architect Prospero Sarti From Stora, New York
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180. Four Greek Bronze Daggers Circa VI Century B.C.
Two leaf-shaped, with channeled handles to contain hilts ; one with ridged taper¬ ing blade, round wavy grip, and voluted pommel; and one with wavy tapered blade, bossed crescent-form guard, oval grip strung with a series of loose rings, and oval disc pommel. [Lot.} Length to 15^ inches
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^ 181. Greek (or Etruscan) Bronze Helmet VI Century B.C.
Shoulder-length domical headpiece with spatulate nasal fronting the ocularia and mouth aperture; tooled with minutely beaded S-scroll and petal-banded borders. Malachite and cuprite patina. Height 9 inches
Collection of 1. Chaffee, Le Mans
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182. Roman Gilded Bronze Legionnaire’s Casque IV-V Century
^Plain rounded headpiece with a socketed heavy ridge plate over the temples; --miolded with ridges around the back of the neck and flaring into a wide seg¬ mental neck defense at the rear; surmounted by a small plume holder. Found near Nijmegen. Height 10 inches
Note: Similar helmets with golden patina are in the British Museum. Helmets from the time of the later Roman emperors are rare.
Collection Burg, Haarlem From Stora, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 349 and illustrated pi. XLVii of the catalogue
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY IlTH
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183. Greek Repc^sse BRo5izE Greave VI-V Century B.C. Sleeve-shaped leg defense repousse wit^dong trailing voluted scrolls ascending towards a mask at the knee cap, edges with fine perforations ; dark patina with greenish incrustations. Together with a bronze equine muzzle. [Lot.]
Length 16I4 inches
184. ^MAN Bronze 5TAT/DETTE of Minerva l-ll Century
Erect figure of the goddess wearing a scallloped and imbricated cape of chain mail over a draped chiton, her right arm upraised, her extended left arm support¬ ing a Medusa-headed shield. Has gray marble plinth. Height i5[4 inches
/ 185. G^^ Bronze Hydria-Kalpis V Century B.C.
/ ^ Tlat sni^ldered ovoid vessel with two lateral bracket handles, and a third handle
with harpyi^nd palmette terminal rising to the incurvate neck ; beaded and petal- molded rim and foot. Patches of rich green patina. A fine example.
Height 16I4 inches
Collection of John Edward Taylor, London, 1912 Collection of Henry Oppenheimer, London, 1926 Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York, 1940
186. Etruscan Wrought Bronze Lamp Tripod V Century B.C.
Slender reeded column cupped in a collar of lappets, on scrolled tripod orna¬ mented with three anthemia and ending in scrolled and winged female termes with claw feet. Green patina. Height 48% inches
Collection of Alphonse Kann, New York, 1027
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
1 87. Roman Bronze Chair (or TABomET) Leg 1 Century
Cabriole leg with dual palmette cresting, the knee bound with acanthus leafage, and terminating in a four-clawed paw foot. Sporadic green patina.
Height 2ol^ inches
: xrii' XV
fSS'. Two Roman Bronze Tripod Candlesticks and an Ornament Small rustic candlesticks, one supporting a medallion grease tray, on low rustic tripod; and a small segmental bronze stand chiseled in relief with a dolphin be¬ tween C-scrolled supports. [Lot.] Heights iil/^ and 3!^ inches
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^ CYPRIOTE, GREEK AND ROMAN STONE SCULPTURES
/rs9^^C^PRiOTE Sculptured Limestone Miniature Head Vl-V Century B.C. Male head framed by luxuriant hair tied with a fillet and bordered with three rows of tight curls; some red pigment; has stand. From the temple of Golgoi.
Height 3 inches
Collection of Luigi di Cesnola, New York
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1928 Described and illustrated in the Cesnola Atlas, vol. i, fig. 715
19a Greek Terra Cotta Ogre Mask VI Century B.C.
Grinning half-human mask with wrinkled face and simian ears. Has stand.
Height 4^ inches
Collection of Prof. V. G. Simkhovitch, New York
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191. Gallo-Roman Sculptured Marble Portrait Head ll-lll Century Depicting the head of a young girl with wavy hair tied in a braided Grecian knot at the back. From Montpellier. Height 8l/^ inches
Collection of Prof. Paul Soubeiran de Pierres, Montpellier
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'192. Graeco-Roman Sculptured Marble Head of a Youth
Circa I Century B.C.
Finely modeled head of a young athlete wearing a palm chaplet. Has vert antique marble pedestal. Height 8I/2 inches
193. Cypriote Sculptured Limestone Head VII-VI Century B.C.
Depicting a youthful dignitary and carved in the Egyptian manner with tes¬ sellated headdress and stylized sideburns. Has stand. Height 8l/^ inches
Collection of Luigi di Cesnola, New York
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1928 Illustrate^ in the (Cesnola Atlas, vol. i, fig. 240
1^4. Hellenistic Sculptured Marble Portrait Head 777-/7 Century B.C. Firmly modeled head of a smiling young girl, her hair swept back over her ears. Has marble columnar stand. Height 9!/^ inches
195. Cypriote Sculptured Limestone Votive Head Vl-V Century B.C. Afouthful male votary, the hair dressed in the Greek fashion, secured by a front- let. Has stand. Height 9 inches
Collection of Luigi di Cesnola, New York Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1928
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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY IITH
[number 196}
196. Greek Sculptured ~
Portrait Head of a Maiden
IV Century B.C.
Serene face of oval contour, inclined slightly to the left, and framed in low wayy hair drawn into a double knot at rear and bound with a fillet. Has ebonized socle. Height 10I/2 inches
Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
[See illustration]
197. Roman Sotlptured Mar^^eIHIead of Aphrodite I-II Century
Finely modeled youthful head,^e wavy hair bound with four fillets; has stand. Replica of a Greek original of the fourth century, B.C. Height 10I/2 'inches
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:98. ^^aeco-Roman Sc^^^^^ured Marble Head of a Maiden
ll Century B.C
Wistful head, tilted slightly to the left, with wavy hair falling upon her forehead and forming curls behind her ears; fragmentary tenon at rear. Has stand.
Height 9!/^ inches
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9. utRAeco-IROman Sculptured Marble Torso 11-1 Century B.C.
Three-quarter-length headless nude male, his right hand holding a palm spray. Vert mtique marMe plinth. Height 12 inches
lLenistic Sculp^red Marble Head of an Ephebus
^ 111 Century B.C.
Beautifully modeled head of a youth with Phrygian cap exposing a band of short wavy hair. Traces of red pigment. Marble columnar stand. Height 10I/2 inches
200.
'raeco-Ro^^An ocuLPTUR^ Marble Torso 11-1 Century B.C.
Headless male figure, the lowef Dortion enveloped in draperies gathered over the left h^d. Has roa^ble plinth. Height 10 inches
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202. Rg^«?n Sculptured Marble Portrait Head of a Senator 11 Century Sensiftv^y modeled head with close-cropped wavy hair and short beard. Has ebonized stand. Height 1 1 inches
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>03. UtRaeco-Roman Sculptured Marble Term 11 Century B.C.
Stately head of a maiden with wavy hair dressed in a coronet, draped with a rib¬ bon falling to her shoulders. Height 11% inches
Roman Sculptured Marble Portrait Head, Said to be of Seneca
1 Century
Vigorously carved head of the philosopher with tousled hair. On round socle.
Height 13I/2 inches
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^ 0— 205. Greek Sculptured Pentelic Marble Head IV Century B.C.
Firmly modeled head of a maiden in right profile, carved virtually in the full round; and standing upon a faceted buff limestone plinth before an , arched tablet. Height 18 inches
Collection of Edgar Speyer, New York
206. Hellenistic Sculptured Marble Torso Fragmentary nude male torso with graceful curve.
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111 Century B.C. Height 14 inches
FIRST SESSION
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY IlTH
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[number 207]
201. Cypriote Sculotur^ Eimestone Votive Head Vl-V Century B.C. Smiling head of a female votary, the hair depicted in transverse braids held by a fillet, and cresting the forehead with small curls ; the back of the head reconsti¬ tuted in plaster. Found near the Temple of Golgoi. Has ebonized socle.
Height i2l/^ inches
Collection of Luigi di Cesnola, New York
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1928
Illustrated in the Cesnola Atlas, vol. i, fig. 221
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[See illustration]
208. Gr^e^ Sculptured Limestone Bas-Relief of Athene IV Century B.C. Demi-oval plaque, carved with the head of Athene in right profile, a fringe of wavy hair showing under the mask-like helmet. Has stand. Height 15I/2 inches Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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jREEK Sculptured Pentelic Marble Statuette of a Sphinx
IV Century B.C.
Finely sculptured fragmentary figure of a sejant sphinx with a truncated cylindri¬ cal i^c^lufhn-i^ising b$!fwe^ its wings. On marble plinth. Height inches
210. Pair Gre
LPTURED Marble Heads
Delicately chisefed head carved with an expression of deep serenity, the lips slightly parted, the wavy hair bound in a broad fillet and drawn into a chignon; on marble socles. Height 19I/2 ii^ches
Collection of Mrs Brandegee, Boston, Mass.
Described by Richard Norton, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Oct. '.ate V Century B.C.)
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AECO- Alexandrian Sculptured Marble Heroic Head
11 Century B.C.
Head executed with subtle oval contours, and inclined slightly to the left; the wavy hair drawn into a knot at rear and tied with a narrow fillet.
Height 15!/^ inches
Collection of Emil Pares, Paris
212. Roman Sculptured Marble Portrait Bust of a Child I Century With round back and closely cropped wavy brown hair, the shoulders draped in a toe^; on rouncHocle. Height 15!/^ inches
3. Archaistic Roman Sculptured Marble Head of Hercules 11 Century Bearded head with a fringe of wavy hair showing beneath a lion-mask headdress falli^ovemth€ears. Has vert antique marble stand. Height 10 inches
fdRoMAN Sculptured Marble Capital 1-11 Century
Finely carved Corinthian column sheathed in acanthus leaves, and crested with volutes; tenon at rear. Height ii inches
Collection of Lord F. P. C. Hope, London, 1917 Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York, 1940
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215. Archaistic Roman Sculptured Marble Head of a Warrior
Circa 1 Century
Smiling head of a youth with pointed prominent chin, a band of ringlets showing undy his visored helmet. Height 9 inches
216. Roman Sculptured Marble Head of a Bacchante 1-11 Century
Subtly carved female head with grapevine chaplet, parted lips; on vert antique marble columnar stand. Height 6 inches
[end of first session]
SECOND SESSION Thursday, May 12, 1949, at 2 p. m.
CATALOGUE NUMBERS 217 TO 432 INCLUSIVE
*GRAECO-ROMAN, ROMAN AND OTHER CAMEOS, INTAGLIOS, SEALS AND RINGS
jyjANY of the finer examples in this category come from the famous collection formed by Sir Francis Cook, Bart., which was dispersed at Christie’s, London, in July, 1925. For the convenience of collectors these are designated by their sales catalogue numbers, which pre¬ cede each description. Further descriptions may be found in C. H. Smith and C. Amy Hutton, Catalogue of Antiquities in the Collection of the late W yndham Francis Cook, Esq., London, 1908. Wyndham Francis Cook was the son of the original owner.
ll Object§TfrThis Category Subject to the 20 per cent Federal Excise Tax
'217. Three Graeco-Roman and Roman Carnelian Intaglios Engraved with a battle scene, the head of Mercury, and the seated Venus; two with gold mounts. Together with a silver-mounted green porphyry pendant with intaglio head of_a senator. [Lot.} Lengths 1I4 to il/} inches
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•I 8. "Six GiTaeco-Roman Sardonyx and Other Cameos and Intaglios C. 292, 293, 364, 366. Onyx cameo engraved with Silenus in a chariot drawn by putti; two sardonyx cameos with Trajan, and Cupid in a lion-drawn chariot; plasma intaglio of a goddess, and two carnelian figural intaglios. Mounted in gold, five as rings. [Lot.] ’
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/fip. Six Graeco-Roman and Roman Semi-Precious Stone Intaglios C. 293, 300, 397. Onyx intaglios engraved with Theseus and the Minotaur, and a seated woman; two figural groups in chalcedony and plasma; carnelian head of a philosopher; and a nymph and putto in lapis lazuli. Mounted in gold, as rings.
[Lot.]
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220. Roman Gold Ring with Sardonyx Intaglio
Heavy gold ring with scutiform motives flanking an oval female cameo head in left profile.
Collection Guilhou, pi. xn, no. 344
C2I. Six Graeco-Roman and Roman Semi-Precious Stone Intaglios X- 272, 291, 292, 293. Onyx portrait head of Matidia, niece of Trajan; sard female portrait head; carnelian figures of a nymph, and priest offering a sacri¬ fice; sard representing a walking man and his dog; and an onyx intaglio of smiling man in toga. Mounted in gold, ^ rings. [Lot.]
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Six jGraeco-Koman and Roman Cameos and Intaglios C. 217, 292, 300, 330. Two sardonyx cameos depicting the head of Alexander and a Roman mask with inscription ; and four carnelian intaglios engraved with portrait heads, an audience scene, and the death of Kapaneus. Mounted in gold, as rings. [Lot.}
>3. Graeco-Roman Sardonyx Cameo, and Three Intaglios Cameo depicting a rider and three horses; sard intaglio with faun and dancing putto; jasper figural intaglio; and a turquoise seal with Arabic inscriptions, mounted as a ring. Three with gold mounts. [Lot.}
_ 224. Greek Emerald Intaglio: Head of Zeus
" Masterfully carved intaglio head facing the observer, in brilliant green emerald. Mounted in gold, as ring.
Note: This fine emerald is of a mineralogical type found in Russia, and presumably came to Greece from one of the Greek colonies on the shores of the Euxine (Black Sea), which were settled by emigration from Miletus before the middle of the seventh century B.C.
Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, New York
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225. Graeco-Roman Sardonyx Cameo: Olivia as Ceres No. 339. Bust-length portrait carved in a white stratum in high relief, depicting Olivia in the character of Ceres, her head draped in a diaphanous veil; brown ground. Mounted in gold, as a pendant. Oval: height 1% inches
Collection of George, Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Castle, Oxon.
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
[See illustration}
226. Graeco-Roman Jade Medallion: Caracalla
Oval bas-relief representing the youthful statesman astride a prancing horse, preparing to spear a lion; in brilliant green jade streaked with dark brown. Mounted in gold, as a pendant.
Collection of Sir J. C. Robinson, C.B.
Collection of Wyndham Francis Cook, Esq., London, 1908, no. 295
[See illustration}
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SECOND SESSION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY I2TH
AT top: number 224 below: numbers 225-227-226
227. RomaisT^Sardonyx Cameo: Dispute Between Athene and Poseidon Executed in three layers of brown and white with a central olive tree flanked on the left by standing figures of Poseidon and Apollo, and on the right by Athene and Dionysos. Oval: length 2% inches
Collection of Prince Nicolas Gagarine
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947
Described in Comptes-Rendues de la Commission Imperiale d’ Archeologie, Paris, 1872, pp. 222-224
Described in Ernest Babelon, Catalogue des Camees de la Bihliotheque Nation- ale, Paris, 1897, P- 19
Described by E. Pottier and S. Reinach, Revue Archeologique, Paris, 1931
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228. Six G^eco-Roman and Roman Cameos and Intaglios Four sardonyx and agate cameos carved with a flower girl, a female head, a bull and an inscription; onyx intaglio of a youth with spear; and carnelian intaglio of a winged boar. Mounted in gold and silver, as rings. [Lot.]
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r29rcjRAECo-KOMAN Carnelian Medallion of Jupiter Virile carving in high relief of the shaggy head of Jupiter wearing a winged crown; in vertkally banded amber red carnelian.
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30. MX Graeco-Roman Carnelian and Other Intaglios Carnelian intaglio engraved with a warrior, pilgrim, centaur, and dancer; onyx intaglio with lancer; and one in amethyst with a head of a maiden. Mounted in gold, as rings^.^Q^ot.} •
231. Roman Agate Cameo: Jupiter
Head in right profile, carved in high relief on a mottled gray and rose ground.
Oval: height 2 inches
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232. Six Graeco-Roman and Other Ca^os and Intaglios Roman agate cameo depicting Cupid riding on a dolphin; jacynth head of a maiden; three carnelian and bloodstone figural intaglios; and a medieval garnet bead c^ved with a saint and inscriptioijsr [Lot.}
Eight Graeco-Roman and Roman Cameos and Intaglios
Sard cameo depicting Andromache leaning upon a pedestal; chalcedony cameo with head of an infant; and six intaglios including one in blue and green glass engraved with a^iouth. Mounted in gold, as rings. [Lot.]
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Eight Graeco-Roman and Roman Cameos and Intaglios Sard cameo head of a youth, and seven intaglios with figural subjects, in agate, carnelian, amethyst and paste. Mounted in gold, as rings. [Lot.}
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235. Sixteen Gnostic Hematite and Other Intaglios Four hematite intaglios engraved with warriors and other figures and inscrip¬ tions; the balance in carnelian, glass, etc., almost all with mystic symbols. Eight moused in gold. [Lot}
<i?_236. Ten GreeR and Graeco-Roman Gold Rings
Including a Greek ring set with a carnelian intaglio of Athene, and one with green glass cabochon; the remainder with carnelian and plasma figural intaglios. [Lot;
Q FOURTEEN GnOSTIC HeMATITE AND OTHER INTAGLIOS
Four in hematite, the remainder in carnelian, bloodstone, agate and glass; en¬ graved with figural subjects, animals and mystic symbols. Twelve mounted in gold. [Lot.}
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238. Roman Onyx Cameo: Emi^eror Claudius I, in Renaissance Jeweled Gold Mount
Three-layer cameo representing the Emperor Claudius I as Jupiter, with thunder¬ bolt, staff and eagle, exquisitely -carved in white on a black ground, with brown and white border. Mounted as a pendant in Italian sixteenth century enamel gold frame studded with baroque pearls. Oval : height 2 inches
Collection of the Earl of Arundel
Collection of George, Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Castle, Oxon.
Collection of Dr Jacob Hirsch, New York
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239. Collection of Graeco-Roman and Other Gold Jewels String of gold beads interspersed with three semi-precious stone intaglios and two coins of Heraclea Pontica; three Byzantine rings; crescent earring, Baby¬ lonian dog pendant; and a Achaemenid chalcedony gold-mounted intaglio, set in silver bracelet. [Eot.]
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240. Collection of Babylonian and Other Semi-Precious Stone Seals Babylonian, Sassanian and Hittite seals in hematite, rock crystal, carnelian, and other materials; engraved with a variety of figural subjects, some with inscrip¬ tions. Sixty-two in all. A few mounted in gold. [Eot.]
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Collection of Babylonian and Other Semi-Precious Stone Seals Type of the preceding. Sixty-two in all. A few mounted in gold. [Lot.]
r. Twenty-One Egyptian, Byzantine and Other Silver Rings Including three Egyptian rings engraved with hieroglyphs, and thirteen assorted rings mounted with agate and other semi-precious stones. [Lot.]
143. Collection of Graeco-Roman Carnelian and Other Intaglios Chiefly carnelian, including a few in lapis lazuli and chalcedony; engraved with animal motives. Fourteen mounted in gold. Fifty-five pieces in all. [Lot.]
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244. Collection of Graeco-Roman Carnelian and Other Intaglios Type of the preceding, including a few in amethystine quartz. Sixteen mounted in gold. Fifty pieces in all. [Lot.]
245. Thirty-Five Graeco-Roman Iron, Bronze and Other Rings Eighteen bronze, nine iron, the remainder in alloys resembling silver ; about half set with carnelian and other intaglios depicting figural subjects, one displaying seven tiny cameos. [Lot.]
CELTIC, EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE
246. *OsTROGOTHic AjouiTe Gold Buo^lb- ORNAMENT V-Vl Century
In the form of a polygonal boss pierc^ with fretwork enclosing fragments of colored glass pastes. ‘ Width 3^^ inch
From Adolph Loewi, Venice
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 848
24/ * Early Christian Gold Ring Circa VH Century
Octagonal, engraved with the sacred monogram and Latin inscription.
From Ars Antiqua, Inc., New York
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/*Four Viking Wrought Silver Pendants IX-X Century
Pair of oval buttons chased in relief with crouching animals within border of blossoms; and two ajoure circular medallions beautifully wrought with formal patterns of voluted scrollings. [Lot.] Diameters 1/01% inches
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49. * Three Byzantine Wro^ht Gold Rings Circa V Century
In heavy gold; one with flat circular bezel ornamented with six loops, the other with small oval bezel with seal enclosed by Greek inscriptions, the third with hexagonal bezel engraved with inscriptions. [Lot.]
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md.^ 1947
249A. *Byzanti]^3^ Gold Necklace and Ring, and a Greek Bracelet Necklace of plaited rope design with five green felspar tubular beads; ring with oval bezel engraved with a cross with sacred monograms; and a plain Greek bracelet with spiraled gold wire catches. [Lot.]
250. *GermaniC'Filigree Gold Earring^;;^^ Vll-Vlll Century
Loop inset with spirally twisted wire fla^mg into an open filigree capital at one ^-end; supporting a small cylindrical agate, with a link hooked by a loop to the other end of the ring. Diameter inches
Collection of Baron van Haersolte
Byzantine Exhibition, Volkerkunde Museum, Berlin, no. 85 Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 889
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Thin flat plates beaten into figures of fantastic animals.
Lengths 1^/2 and 1% inches
Collection Rosenberg Collection of Dr Edgar S. Apolant Described in Fettich, Archaeologia Hungarica, 1926, p. 6
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md.^IQ47
2.'^Three Levantine Gold and Seed Pearl Earrings 1 r-H^air in the form of crescents enclosing seed pearls, with scrolled bars supporting 'j -^“finy hanging baroque pearls and garnets; and a single filigree earring with yel- j low quartz cabochon hung with wire spirals and clusters of baroque pearls.
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\ 253. *Byzantine Filigree Gold Earring-/!^ VLVII Century
‘Jj-AyTgQ loop composed of three open filigree{spherules joined by small loops.
Diameter inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 485
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254. *BYZAN'fiNE AjourteGold Ring^et WITH Cameos lU-IV Century Ring of openwork, pierced with inscj^tion Dvlcis Vivas, with lappet-shaped pendant in ajoure scrollwork; set with two small cameos, one depicting a ship, the other inscribed eytyxi (Be happy).
Collection of Castellani, Rome, 1888, no. 924 Collection of E. Guilhou, London, 1937 Collection of Dr Jacob Hirsch
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 498
See Corpus Inscript. Latinarum, vol. xiii, 3, p. 631, no. 10024,3
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255. * Byzantine Wrought Gold Animalistic Ring Circa IV Century Heavy ring wrought in the form of two leopards springing up to the square bezel, which is set with a pyramidal light blue stone.
Collection of Friedrich von Gans, Frankfurt-am-Main From the Bachstitz Gallery, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 500.
Described and illustrated in R. Zahn, Die Sammlung der Galerie Bachstitz, vol. II, no. 66, p. 20, pi. 16
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)LiNGiAN Gold Ring, Set with Pearl IX Century
0 — Hoop catved in the form of two birds’ heads supporting a tall open calyx-form bezel with flat hexagonal head set with a baroque pearl.
Collection of E. Guilhou, London, 1937, no. 545 Collection of Dr Jacob Hirsch
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 511
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* Germanic Wrought Gold Buckle Circa VI Century
Heavy looped buckle with crossbar ending in the head of an animal. An excep¬ tionally massive example. Length 1% inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 888
[See illustration]
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258. *^TZANTINE AjOURE GoLD AND GREEN FeLSPAR NeCKLACE
Vl-Vll Century
Consisting of one circular and ten lozenge-shaped gold links pierced with open scrollwork enclosing nine barrel-shaped green felspar beads.
Length 11I/9 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 431
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Lings, Set with Stones VIII-IX Century The smaller hoop with open'V -shaped shoulders supporting an open bezel with a pyramidal stone ; the larger set with two pear-shaped garnets and pairs of seed pearls at the shoulder, the hexagonal tiered bezel also set with a cabochon garnet ; the ring can be opened.
From^^s Antiqua, Inc., York
260. *Two Byzantine (AjouRE Gold and Agate Brooches X-X/ Century Oval, centred with large and small oval striped agates respectively, the former with border of open gold wedge-shaped motives, the latter with open border of of pairs of conjoined crooks. Heights iy^ and inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947
"Small Byzantine and Other Gold Ornaments Ring with green cloisonne enamel bezel with bird figure; tiny gold and enamel miniature buckle; gold cartouche-form miniature pendant; silver ring with gold bezel engraved with a cross; and a beaten gold penannular bracelet terminating in serpent heads. [Lot.]
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262. *Byzantine Gold and Enamel Medallion Circa VUl Century
Heavy round medallion, inlaid with colored enamels, depicting the Christ at bust length with sacred emblems on one side, the other with two bust-length saints; raised rims, a rosetted loop at top with bossed sides. Together with two Byzantine filigree gold earrings, circa VI century. [Lot.]
Diameter of medallion 1I4 inches
Exhibited at the Louvre, Paris, 1931
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore,
263. Nine Small Byzantine and Merovingian Bronze Ornaments
Circa VI-VIIl Century
Five buckle plates chased with voluted scrollings, a portrait medallion, and pairs of animals; small lappet-shaped buckle with adosses birds; and three arched buckle-type fibulae with gold decoration. [Lot.]
264 *Lot of Merovingian and Other Gold Ornaments Plain gold ring; pair of gold spirals; two beaten gold leaf-shaped ornaments; earring with numerous tiny fish pendants; two interlinked hairpins; ring with filigree bezel set with a cabochon garnet; and two other fragments. [Lot.]
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V-VII Century
Tiny silvered bronze bird figure; triangular bronze and enamel plaquette with medallions of a cross and endless knot; circular bronze and enamel fibula button; bronze miniature goose inlaid with touches of enamel ; and a bronze and enamel rectangular fibula. [Lot.]
, 266. *Celtic Gold Penannular Bracelet i''^'^lain hoop slightly broadening out into flat ends. Weight about 330 gr. Found in Co. Antrim. Width 2I/2 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York Exhibition of Gold, Clevelapi^Museum of Art, Cleveland, O., 1947
'iG-j. *Vi^oTHic Wrought Silver Bracelet with Movable Clasp
Circa VII Century
Plain ring with clasp in the shape of two conjoined cones set with rude cabo- chon&r tl^ clasp rotating around the braj;ef^. Diameter 2!/^ inches
26^. *Merovingian G<5ld Brooch, Set with Semi-Precious Stones
VII Century
Bronze plate with central umbril, applied with small filigree scroll and loop ornaments, surrounded by small carnelians and other semi-precious stones in variously shaped settings. Found near Vienna. Diameter 1I/2 inches
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269^ *MEROviNGiAN'tjOL*bCBit65cH,"SET wj?ff<}ARNETS VII Century
^ Circular plate set with three endless kn^ts in innumerable tiny loops of gold "wire, with a central boss; enclosing eight small wedge-shaped garnets around the peripheries of the disc and boss. Diameter inches
I Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 864 ‘
Tne^old^jd^namel Buckle, Set with Seed Pearls
VI-VII Century
y ^^^']]Circular, with filigree rope-work border around a medallion in blue, green and white enamel centring a quatrefoil ornament enclosed by small baroque pearls.
Collection Stroganoff From Adolph Loewi, Venice
Diameter 1% inches
[See illustration]
Illustration of numbers 268 and 270 appears on the following page
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2-]i. *Byzantine Gilded Silver VoiI^Plaquette XI Century
Square plaquette with nulled edge, rmousse with bust-length figure of the Vir¬ gin, with sacred monograms at upper corners. Height 2!/^ inches
Collection of Prof. Stanley Casson, Oxford From the Blumka Gallery, New York Described in T. Rice, Byzantine Art, pp. 165-6
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.ELTic Gold Bracelet
Half-round tubular ornament terminating in hollow coniform cups, lightly en¬ graved with parallel lines of herringbone ornament on the rim and base of the cups. Length 3I/4 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York Exhibition of Gold, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O., 1947
[See illustration]
\ ^ —273. *Byzanto-Egyptian Wrought Silver Bracelet Circa VI Century In the form of an open spiral of silver, terminating at both ends in the head of a lamb ornamented with filigree work; one head furnished with two small rings.
Width 3^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1947, no. 451
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74. *Byzantine Gold Marriage Ring Circa V Century
Exceptionally massive plain gold ring with square seal bezel intaglio-cut with affrontes portrait busts of a man and woman surrounded by inscription with their names — Aristophanes and Vigilantia.
Collection of E. Guilhou, London, 1937, no. 457 Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., 1^47^0. 502
275. Three Merovingian WiCought Bronze Buckles VI-VII Century Hinged lappet-form buckle finely wrought with interlaced strapwork; plain oval buckle with clasp applied with tiny gold wire ornament; and a toga holder with two round plates chiseled with geometric devices. [Lot.]
' // * Lengths 2^/^ to 3 inches
2-f6. *Merovingian Bron^ Collar and Pin and Three Celtic Silver Pins Narrow penannular bronze loop, green patina; long bronze pin with spiraled loop handle; two rare Irish Celtic silver pins, one with attached chain; and a Celtic (or Merovingian) pin with engraved feather-type handle. [Lot.]
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277. Two Celtic Bronze Fibulae O’ — Penannular brooch, the ends expanding into spatulate plates chased with scroll¬ work, long revolving pin; and a very fine smaller example with annular loop beautifully chased with panels of delicate tracery and having four settings for cabochons. [Lot.] Lengths 4^ and 3^ inches
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^ 278. Three MfiRoviNGiATsf^RONZE Buckles
^ Double buckle of disc type engraved/^ith concentric circles of ornaments, centr¬ ing heads; open hinged and scrolled Duckle with tiny animal-head cusps; and an oblong buckle pierced with figure of an animal drinking from a cup, with a bird perched on its back. Green patina. [Lot.] Lengths and 7 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Mc^i947, no. 859
VI-VII Century
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^79. *Two Merovingian Engraved Silver and Bronze Buckles
Vll Century
One spatular form, the detached buckle with triangular pendant, in bronze over¬ laid with silver richly engraved with strapwork; the other in bronze, wrought with a complex lappet engraved with hatching. Lengths 4 to 5I/2 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 871
Q 280. *Merovin61an Engra:\^d SILVER AN0^RONZE BucKLE Vll Century ' Broad rectangular plate, the edges studgl^ with eight bosses; and oval buckle with spatulate bar; overlaid with silver delicately engraved with a maze of strapwork. Length 7 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 15147, no. 871
0 ^y'^^r^C^LTic Engraved Gold Collar
Flat-hammered sheet in the form of a crescent, lightly engraved with delicate zigzag borders and clusters of hatched triangles near the ends, which are turned at right angles and expand into small discs. Found near Enniskillen, Ireland.
W idth 7 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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'j _ 281A. * Italo-Byzantine Gold and Cloisonne Enamel Medallion
O-- Xl-Xll Century
Inlaid in colored enamels with haloed bust of S. Peter, holding a key.
Diameter inches
Note: Authenticated by Dr. Fritz Volbach, director of the Vatican Museum. This and the following lot (no. 281B) are companions to the medallions in Part One of the sale (nos.
218 and 219).
From Adolph Loewi, Venice
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 529
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NE Enamel Medallion
XI-XII Century
Type of the preceding, depicting the bust of a saint. Diameter inches
See note to the preceding.
From Adolph Loewi, Venice
Exhibition of Early Christie and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti- ore, Md^ 19^, mo/529
^YZANTiNE Gold BJ^klace with Medallions XI Century
Fine double chain with cruciform clasp and supporting three flat-hammered lun¬ ettes ornamented with scrolled wire filigree and hung with tiny baroque pearls.
Length 18I/2 inches
Exposition dc I’Art Byzantin, Paris, 1931, no. 503 Exhibition of Byzantine Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1931 Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti- more^k^ 1947, no. 437 ^7 -
’^/283. imEETdALLO-ROMAN BRONZE AND EnAMEL BUCKLE ORNAMENTS
V-VII Century
Variously shaped and inlaid with colored enarnels. [Lot.}
/y/y Lengths 2. to 2^/2 inches
^sf/CELTic Wrought Bronze Armlet Penannular ring chased in relief with voluted scrollings and terminating in two ( oppos^^^ip-sl;aped ornaments. Rich dark green patina. Diameter 61/^ inches
7^"'285^^erovingian Massive Bronze Bracelet V-VI Century
'Broad heavy circlet incised with groups of concentric circles and molded in relief with clusters of ridges. Green patina. Found near Le Mans. Width 5 inches
From M. & R. Stora, Paris
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:) Celtic Bronze Fibulae
Penannular, the ends flattened into ovoid forms suggesting animal heads, one with open mouths inset with cabochons of enamel mosaic; straight hinged pins. The enameled fibula exhibits a rich dark green patina. Found in Co. Tipperary and Co. Armagh, Ireland, respectively. Lengths 2^ and 2 inches
ction of Wil^m Randolph Hearst, New York
Jen Small Early Christian and Byzantine Ornaments Four semicircular fragments of silver ornamented with gadrooned knops, parts of a jeweled ornament; tiny bronze cross embossed with figure of a king and heads of evangelists ; bronze button with running animal in enamel ; green stea¬ tite Maltese cross engraved on both sides; tiny bronze couchant lion ornament; bone fibula; and a silvered bronze ornament. [Lot.}
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HRiSTikf^ Bronze Other Ornaments Tiny rectangular silver plaquette embossei’^^h figure of Christ blessing; bronze miniature crucifix; bronze talisman in tme form of a cross, consisting of four loose links which can be dropped to conceal its nature; bronze rooster fibula inlaid with enamel; round wheel fibula inlaid with enamel; and a bone arei tick^ inscribed xpictoy. [Lot.]
289. *Gallo-Roman Wrought Silver Miniature 'Portrait Bust
IV Century
Bust of a bearded man, with short curly hair and bare breast. Height 2!/^ inches Collection of Prof. V. G. Simkhovitch, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Mj^., 1947, no. 35.
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_?9o. kom/nesque Car^ '
XII Century
Tiny seated robed and crowned figure of the Virgin holding the robed Child on her left knee, Elis right hand against her ^breast. Height 2I4 inches
291. Byzantine Bronze A^jimalistic O^^ment IV -V Century
Hollow demi-figure of a panther leapin^orward, the two forepaws supporting a short bar; a loop fastened into the neck. Found in northern Syria.
Length 4^ inches
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xzE StatBette of Silenus Circa V Century
Fragmentary nude figure lacking the right forearm and lower legs, with long pendants of vines in his hair and holding a branch in his left hand.
Height 6y^ inches
Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 209
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93. t>YRO-RoMAN Bronze Lamp V Century
Spouted lamp with reservoir shaped as a woman’s head lying on its back and upcurving into a species of crested griffin. Dull green patina.
Length 6^/2 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 241
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iARLY Christian
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AT top: numbers 294 AND 293 flow: nummr&^2. and 291
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, vigorous. Remains of green patina. From Egypt. Length 63^ inches
' Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1941
■ Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 267
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295. Ehree Small Byzantine Bronze Crosses IX-XI Century
Greek crosses, two with bas-relief figures of the Savior, the third with engraved figure and hinged mount, a second cross applied on the back engraved with five roundels. [Lot.] Heights 2I/) to 5 inches
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fZANTiNE Bronze Low Pricket Candlestick V -VI Century
Flat grease tray with vertical rim scalloped in the form of a square intersecting a quatrefoil, the angles furnished with tiny knobs; on four ball feet. Together with a small ajoure tower-shaped bronze ornament, probably a foot of a piece of furniture. [Lot.} Height 2}/g inches
Collection Andronicus Collection of Dr Hugo Weissmann
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 262
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297. Four Small Early Christian Ornaments
Tubular bronze Greek cross from Athens, green patina; bone trefoil pendant carved with portraits of SS. Peter and Paul, with their names inscribed on the reverse; Byzantine bronze medal chased with the Nativity, surrounded by tiny medallions of the twelve apostles; and a carved wood skeleton in a miniature oak coffin. [Lot.}
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298. Collection of Six Coptic and Arabic Carved Wood and
Bronze Combs VU-X Century
Large double comb with centre ajoure with curious figures of a man, three ani¬ mals and a ladder; smaller double comb, the ajoure plaquette depicting a fawn, with a sun disc on its back, nibbling at a tree ; single bronze comb with scalloped cresting; two fragmentary examples; and a double comb with central band carved with inscriptions and roundels. Together with a carved fragment. [Lot.}
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299. Byzantii^ Fvory Fragment X-Xl Century
Fragment of i^anel, carved in sunk relief with a standing robed figure of a saint holding a missal. Height 4I/2 inches
From Demotte, Inc., New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 149
3do. Byzantine BronzL Lamp ^ V Century
Globose reservoir wrought with foliar of leafage and elongated into a spout, the tiny cover with Greek cross finial; looped handle with foliated ornament. Dull greenish patina. Found near Athens. Length 61^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no.' 244 X
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361. Two Coptic and Hispano-Arab Carved Bone Plaquettes
The former carved with scrolling vines and pierced with seven holes ; the latter
with two animal figures and a bird amid foliations; in flat relief.
Lengths 6I/3 and 4!/^ inches
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Flat moline cross, the edges with engrav< Orontes, near Hamah.
VI-VII Century outline. Found on the banks of the Height 61y^ inches
^03. Byzanto-Roman Bronze Plaquette with Animalistic Decoration
IV Century
Oblong, wrought in bas-relief with a column flanked by two affrontes seated grif¬ fins beneath a frieze garland. Reddish patina. Length 5^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 229
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Round domed box engraved with a cross with radial sunrays; fragment of an a]oure bronze incense burner, wrought with foliated scrollings; and a spatulate plaquette wrought with a]oure scrollwork and surmounted by a pair of bird fig¬ ures. [Lot.]
305. Two Coptic Engraved Bone Plaquettes IV-V Century
Depicting figure of a cup bearer walking to the right, and the standing robed figure of a youth holding a pennon ; engraved and intaglio-cut.
Heights ':yy2and 4 inches
_ 306. Two (&)PTic Carved Bone Plaquettes V-Vl Century
One carved with nude figure of a woman dancing, her foot upon an animal ; the other with stiff standing figure of S. Menas, holding a spear and discus.
Heights 5 14 6^2 inches
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^ 307. Early
HRiSTiAN Gr^n Earthenware Bowl Circa VI Century
Deep round bowl in cucumber green faience with russet incrustations, the exter¬ ior bossed with four seals stamped with the sacred monogram, the cavetto with a medallion with seated figures of SS. Peter and Paul with sacred monogram and caption with their names; the rim fragmented. Diameter 5% inches
Exhibited at the Louvre, Pari^ i93I- /f — /)
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308. Early Christian Bronze Statuet^?^ 3f a Man IV Century
Walking figure of a youth draped with a short skirt around the loins and a nar¬ row mantle twisted over the left shoulder, his hands outstretched; wearing a peaked cap with a reef and streamers. Dark, faintly green patina.
Height 8^ inches
Collection Ferroni, Rome, 1909, no. 324 From Ercole Canessa, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 202
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3(59. uyzanto^Koman Bronze Statuette of a Woman IV-V Century Standing figure in long flowing robes and mantle draped around her waist, with left hand extended and right hand raised, wearing a diadem in her hair; hollow cast. Rich copper brown patina. Height 8 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 206 and illustrated pi xxxv of the catalogue
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310. *Byzantine S^tlver AND'BRON:fE Bowl ’ VI Century
Inverted bell-shaped bronze bowl on ringed fo^ the interior overlaid with sil¬ ver, the rim punched with nulling. From Syria. Diameter 5% inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 374
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31 1. *Early Christian Fluted Silver Cavetto OF A Dish V Century
The centre rudely incised with swimming fish surrounding a central six-petal 7 0 ^rosette with inner chrysanthemum fluting; surrounded by the remains of a broadly fluted marli. Diameter 7I4 inches
' Collection of Borelli Bey
Exhibition of Byzantine Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1931 Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
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I Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 372
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312. Early Christian Bronze Censer with Chain V-Vl Century
Pentagonal stellate bowl, the sides decorated with plain roundels, on three pad feet; suspended by bar chains from a moline cross with Greek inscription.
Width 5!/^ inches
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313. Romanesque Carved Ivory Bas-Relief Plaque
French or Rhenish, Early XII Century Carved with two standing robed figures of saints, one holding a cross, within round-arched niches, the arches embellished with perforations.
Height 5 14 inches
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S punish, XII Century
Seated robed figure of the Christ holding an orb in His raised right hand and a missal in the left, resting on His knee ; upon a throne before a mandorla carved with an imbricated scale pattern. Height ^]/g inches
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315. *Byzant:1ne Gol-dXross, Set with Rock Crystal and Emeralds
XI-XII Century
Heavy flat cross with round ends, each ornamented with two tiny cusps ; inset at the centre with a circular cabochon of rock crystal and upon the end of each arm with four large oblong emeralds, all with plain massive setting. Found in the Bosphorus. ^ Height inches
Collection of the Comtesse Berne, Paris From Brimo, Paris
Collection of Friedrich von Cans, Frankfurt-am-Main From the Bachstitz Gallery, New York Exhibited at the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 472
Compare Dalton, Byzantine Art and Archaeology, 1911, p. 559, fig. 343
Described and illustrated in R. Zahn, Die Sammlung der Galerie Bachstitz, c. 1921, vol. II, no. 104, p. 46, pi. 39
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IV -V Century
Bulbous jar with high ring-molded necl^on three splayed ball feet; engraved around the shoulder with an undulatii^ grapevine. In copper-colored bronze with patches of brilliant malachite green patina. Height inches
Exhibition of Byzantine Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1931 Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1941
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 228
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317. -^^arolingian-Type Gold and Gilded Silver Cross, Set with Emeralds, Rubies, Sapphires and Seed Pearls
Moline cross with sides of gilded silver and front and back plates of beaten gold set with large and small cabochon emeralds, rubies, sapphires, rock crystal and other stones, and strung with borders of seed pearls. Contains some original elements, notably the silver gilt edges of the cross. Height Y/z hiches
318. *GALLO-Ro2«fAN SILVER BowL /U-U Century
Shallow round bowl, the cavetto ornamet^^ with three concentric lightly bossed circles. Diameter 6% inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947
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^^^19. *Merovingian Engraved Silver and Bronze Belt Ornament
3 Vo-- , , Century
Consisting of a central oval loop with curved bar and two broad flat spatulate plaquettes each ornamented with five rude gold-covered bosses. The whole in bronze, overlaid with thin sheets of beaten silver engraved with strapwork and other formal devices. Total length 131/2 inches
Collection de Lorey
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 861
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320. *Byzantine Silver Cro^with Niello Inscription VI-VII Century Greek cross with slightly flaring arms, hammered flat and with Greek inscription in niello (translation) : Mercy on us, Son of God — Thou tv ho hast been crucified for us. Together with a fragmentary silver spoon engraved with a cross. Both found on the banks of the Orontes, near Hamah. [Lot.] Height 6I/2 inches Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 381
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zanto-Roman Bronze Twin-Spouted Lamp
IV Century
Tall-stemmed lamp with octagonal reservoir having two lateral spouts and disc cover; on round flaring foot. Height 8 inches
From Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York
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^22. Coptic Bronze Bowl Vl-Vll Century
Deep round bowl, the interior incised with two swimming fish, roundels and central rosette, the exterior punched with a collar of ornamental hexagons, be¬ tween borders of nailhead pattern and bands of engraved hatching.
Diameter 9 inches
Exhibited at the Louvre, Paris, 1931
3. -^iwzANTiNE Bronze Cross, Inlaid with Silver Vlll Century
Flat moline cross engraved and inlaid with silver, on the obverse with rude fig¬ ure of Christ surrounded by four pairs of saints, the reverse with the Virgin between four pairs of saints; profusely captioned in Greek. From Athens.
Height -jl/^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 290
ARLY Christian Ajoure Bronze Wheel-Form Polycandelon
V -VI Century
Open wheel pierced to hold seven candles, and with sawtooth rim; suspended by three chains from a hook. Diameter 9 inches
5. Coptic Pentelic Marble Sarcophagus-Form Reliquary
IV -V Century
Rectangular casket with detachable gabled cover pierced with a central orifice, the cover carved on each face with a Greek cross. Length 7 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 36
j26r. Coptic Wrought Bronze Situla VI Century
y Q „M)eep pail with flaring rim, wrought with a frieze band of voluted scrolls termi¬ nating in arrowheads and enclosing four small mask bosses, over sloping sides wrought with a species of arcade, each narrow arch terminating in a bossed pin¬ nacle. Red and green patination. Diameter 81/^ inches
Exhibition of Byzantine Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1931
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327. Byzantine Wrought Bronze Pricket Candlestick V-Vl Century Baluster-form shaft supporting a wide circular dish-form grease tray and revolv¬ ing pricket; on undulating trilateral leaf-form base outlined with spiral cornu¬ copia motives and embossed with triads of leaves; on claw-and-ball feet seated on discs. Height 14!/^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 261 and illustrated pi. XLii of the catalogue
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328. Syrian Etched Glass Bottle III-IV Cetitury
Cylindrical with narrow neck, wide flat lip and angular strap handle; in light greenish glass etched with rows of ornament, probably representing perspectives of houses or churches. Height 8 inches
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329. Coptic Engraved Bronze Bowl V-Vll Century
Mammiform smooth bowl engraved in interior with a rosette and border of un¬ dulating and scrolling vine leaves. Diameter 7I/3 inches
Collection of Prof. V. G. Simkhovitch, New York
Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1941
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 224
fo Byzantine Bronze Crosses V-Vl Century
Cross path with sockets to accommodate cabochon stones; and a somewhat smaller cross ponimee, the angles with pronounced knobs, green patina. Found at Constantinople. Heights 8I/2 and 7 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 2^
p ^331- Siculo-By^wtwe Painted Fresco Panel IX Century
Head and shoulders of a lightly bearded saint with brown hair and sky blue robe, outlined against an ochre and red halo. Framed. From the Cathedral of Messina. 10V2 ^^^(thes square
Note: An extract from a letter of Dr. Raimond von Marie to the former owner, dated May 21, 1927, reads as follows: "I like your, fresco fragment very much; it certainly dates from the 9th century. As you have my books you might compare it to fig. 51 of Vol. I, the fresco of Martino di Monti, Rome, of the year 844-847, especially with the figure most to the right.”
Collection of Mrs Caroline R. Hill
\2. Coptic Tapestry Panel with Figural Motives V-Vll Century
^ Broad crimson border woven with black and white fret motives, above four frag¬ mentary figures with heads facing the observer, and enclosed by a cartouche chain motive. Framed. 38 x 53 inches
Exhibition of Pagan and Christian Egypt, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1941
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333.^t!^ly Christian Ribbon Alabaster Two-Handled Urn VI Century Ovoid urn with two scrolled looped handles joining the shoulder to the lip, and domed cover surmounted by a baluster-shaped finial; yellowish white alabaster with handsome striped figure and beautiful polish. Height 19!/^ inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti- . more, Md., 1947, no. 80
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334. Italo-Byzantine ^iNEi/^-CAkvED Ivory Casket XI-XII Century
Oblong casket with flat cov^ sliding in grooves and furnished with later gilded bronze hasps, lock and bail handle. Handsomely decorated upon the cover and all four sides with a series of applied square plaques carved in sunk relief with single figures of warriors in action with sword and shield, spear and bow, fight¬ ing with wild animals, etc., in Roman fashion; within borders formed of narrow plaquettes beautifully carved with repeated designs of rosettes alternating with tiny medallion heads of the same size. Length 1373 inches
Note: One of a notable series of caskets of which closely related examples are in the Walters Art Gallery and the Cleveland Museum of Art. See also Goldschmidt and Weitz- mann, Die Byzantinischen Eljenbeinskulpturen, 1930, vol. I, passim. The present casket is in remarkable preservation.
From Bacri Freres, Paris
Exhibition of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., 1940, no. 121
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more Md., 1947, no. 1 16
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335: Coptic (^Syro-Roman) Bronze Pricket Torchere VI-VlIl Century Cylindrical shaft with a central knop supporting a broad round pan, to which is attached a pricket raised on an open four-legged support; the whole resting on a round cushion-form base with claw feet seated upon pads. Height 54 inches
Note: A remarkable early object, the exact origin of which is difficult to determine; it definitely antedates the Romanesque, and is almost certainly a product of one of the trans- Mediterranean Christian colonies.
Collection Schevitch, Paris
From M. Gliickselig and Son, New York
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 258
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;36. Three Celtic Bronze Short Swords
One with slender tapering blade; the second with leaf -shaped blade and handle pierced with orifices for hilts ; the third a stabbing sword or dagger with notched handle plate. The first two from Co. Cork, the third from Athlone. [Lot.]
Lengths 12I/2 to 18I4 inches Collection of William Randolph Elearst, New York
337. Two Celtic Bronze Leaf-Shaped Swords
With flaring and tapered blades and swelling flat handles channeled and pierced with perforations for hilts. From Lough Erne, Enniskillen.
Lengths 23!/^ and 25I4 inches
338. Hungarian Bronze Sword with Hilt
With flaring and tapered blade of lozenge section engraved near the point with converging lines; to which is attached a hilt with handgrip engraved with spirals and having disc pommel surmounted by a knob, the attachment horseshoe shaped. Length 26^4 inches
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339. South Irish Bronze Celt
Heavy piece with crescent-shaped blade ornamented with parallel groovings be¬ low; above a plain sunk panel. Length 5I4 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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340. Five Hungarian Pre-Historic Bronze Artifacts Loop handle; spatulate tool; leaf-shaped spearhead, hollow-cast; axe head, hol¬ low-cast; and a wider axe head. Green patina. From Sopron, Hungary. [Lot.]
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^41. (collection Og:?^IGOTHIC BrONZE ORNAMENTS, FrOM CaSTILNUEVA Comprising fourteen chased bronze hbulae with segmental heads; seven belt buckles; seven small rings ornamented with bosses; four plaquettes, of which two are inlaid with colored glass paste; twelve penannular bracelets; and four¬ teen small buckles, beads and other fragments. [Lot.]
From the necropolis of Castilnueva, in Segovia, Spain
CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE STONE SCULPTURES
^ 342. Byzanto-Roman Sculptured Marble Head of a Faun IV Century
Vigorously carved head of a faun with full curling m.oustache and beard, a crown of leaves upon his head. Has marble socle. Height 8% inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947
-343. Bv^nto-Roman Sculptured Marble Torso Group IV-V Century Torsc/of a shepherd garbed in a short fur tunic, and carrying a lamb in a sling pendent from his right shoulder. Marble plinth. From Ravenna.
Height 1 7 1/2 inches
Exhibition of Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Walters Art Gallery, Balti¬ more, Md., 1947, no. 27
3^44. Italo-Byzantine ScmPTURED Mar^tS'Transenna Panel
Vlll Century
Rectangular panel, carved in low relief with a lozenge cartouche centring a cruciform foliage design, the spandrel pieces with foliage clusters.
24I/2 .V 2 81/2 inches
^~3.^G^^^^^YLi^^^^^^?^ruRED Marble Spiral Column XU Century Boldly carved with twin spiral grooves entwined by a secondary spiral; square base. Height 49 inches
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6?^ Molded rectangular panel with incurvate upper right corner, enclosing a stand¬ ing figure of a bishop with crozier, his right hand raised in benediction. From Aix-en-Provence. Height 33I/4 inches
Illustrated in the Bulletin de la Societe Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1882, p. 182
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347. Ital^Byzantine Sculptured Limestone Animalistic Transenna Panel VIII-IX Century
Carved in relief with two figures of a stag and unicorn facing each other, their forefeet resting upon the trunk of a flowering tree with long spreading branches.
Height 23 inches; length 48 inches
Sole: This fine plaque was found in an abbey, completely destroyed during the last war, at Benevento near Naples.
Exposition de I’Art Byzantin, the Louvre, Paris, 1931
Exhibition of the Dark Ages, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1937
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Oblong capital carved with symmetrical foliage clusters, some pendent from the lion-head terminals; on spirally twisted column. Total height 5 feet 1I/2 inches
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Deeply grooved spiral column with foliated cusps and capital, on molded square plinth fronted by the head of a youth. Total height 54I/2 inches
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'350. Eight Romai^S^ue and Gothic Bronze Seals
French, Xlll-XV Century
Three round seals with bull’s head, coat of arms, and a tailor’s trade emblem; and five mandorla-sha-^td seals intaglio-cut with figures of bishops, saints, and an eagle, two within Gothic niches, surrounded by inscriptions. [Lot.}
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351. Four Carved Stone and Boxwood Portrait Medals
German, XVI Century
Portrait bust of a Polish lady, inset with silver, oval; portrait of a man, age twenty-eight, probably by Philip von Wingarten, from the Castiglioni collec¬ tion ; portrait of the Emperor Maximilian, to left, mounted on wood, from the Spitzer and Figdor collections; and portrait of Jacob Fugger II, by Friedrich Hagenauer, in boxwood, from the Hess collection. [Lot.}
Diameters s to 2^/2 inches
//352.'*TwoCPendants XI I -XI 1 1 Century
Saracenic bronze stellate harness ornament with bas-relief medallion of affrontes bird grotesques; and a Romanesque silver stellate pendant with Greek inscrip¬ tion and inset with cabochons, baroque pearls and a Greek intaglio. [Lot.}
Heights 3^3 and 2!/^ inches
353. Gothic Gilded Bronze Gargoyle Figurine French, XIV Century In the form of a demon with spiraled serpentine tail, short wings and outspread hands. Height 2 14 inches
Collection of Henri Daguerre, Paris
^ 354. iHREE Gothic aNd Renaissance Bibelots XV -XV I Century
French Gothic bronze pyx in the form of a small round tower applied with a gilded escutcheon supported by angels; ajoure cage-type niche in gilded bronze, for a miniature statuette; and pair Venetian gold-damascened iron scissors. [Lot.} Heights 3% and 3^ inches; length of scissors 7I4 inches
^ * Gothic GildTd Bronze and Silver Niello Reliquary Box
^ XV Century
Small square box with glazed panel surrounded by sprays of chased blossoms, the reverse with a niello panel of an equestrian figure; velvet-lined interior with relic. Length 3I/3 inches
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356. *Romanesque Silver Virgin’s Crown, Set with Semi-Precious Stones Rhenish, XIII Century
Annular crown crested with four large and four small trefoils and applied with a maze of filigree scrollings enclosing large and small cabochons of rock crystal, semi-precious stones and glass paste. Diameter 61^ inches
From Ratzesdorfer, Vienna
Exhibition of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., 1940, no. 224 Illustrated in the Art News, Feb. 1940, p. ii
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5^^557 • Gothic Dinanderie Low Candlestick XV Century
^ Short and wide cylindrical stem pierced with a row of clustered orifices; on coni¬ form foot. Height 3^ inches
From the Blumka Gallery, New York
358!k.omanesque Bronze Statuette of a Dragon
German, Xll-XlII Century Coiled serpentine figure with four short legs and rearing head; dark green patina. Together with a rare early Gothic wrought bronze scissors-type nut¬ cracker with bird handles, found at Lille. [Lot.] Height 4I/2 inches
[59. Romanesque Gilded Copper Pyx French, XIII Century
Cylindrical, with coniform hinged cover surmounted by a cross and set with three small oval cabochons of colored stones. Height 4I/2 inches
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Collection of Mrs Herbert Shipman, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1940
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301. Romanesque GIlded Bronze Spice Box
French or Rhenish, XII Century Small paneled oblong box chased with borders of running foliated scroll mo¬ tives; on four tiny paw feet. Together with a gilded bronze colonnette from a chasse, and four fragments of a chasse cresting, all of the period. [Lot.]
Length 4I/2 inches
vjiJuuEjL. ajiConze Statu^^tc Mosan, XII Century
Standing robed and hooded figure of a female saint, her left hand carried to her cheek. A fine example. Height 4 inches
[62. Romanesque Gilded
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[ESQUE Bronze Reliquary Base and Phylactery
French, XIII Century
Domed base with four lunettes engraved with groups of three figures of the Savior and apostles, with ajoure spandrels; and a quatrefoil phylactery repousse with rosettes enclosing cabochons of semi-precious stones. [Lot.]
Diameters 4V? and h>y^ inches
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; — ^(34. KOMANESQUE Wjt6UGHT GiLDED BRONZE CRET DE ChASSE
French, XII Century
Straight crest beautifully wrought with an ajoure design of pairs of recurrent foliated S-scrolls enclosing elongated bunches of grapes resembling ears of maize. - y Length 7^ inches
§65. Romanesque Bronze Gargoyle Spout XIII Century
In the shape of an animal head with open jaws, being a terminal to a roof spout; dark...p^tina. Rare/^^^z;^;> Length 5!/^ inches
366. Gothic Ajoure Wrought Coffret French, XV Century
,L> “Oblong casket with sarcophagus-t^e cover, all wrought with panels of ajoure tracery mounted over the remains of wine red velours, and affixed to an iron plintlj^the edges with s'rsn^n to/sade. Length 6 inches
^ 3t)7. QrOTHic Engraved Lead Chasse Spanish, XV Century
“Chased with figures of saints and ecclesiastical crests above Latin inscriptions, the gabled cover with Biblical scenes; fitted interior. Length 6 inches
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French, XVI Century
'Rectangular domed box with long band hasps inlaid with running design of silver scrollings; the box applied on the gilded ground in silver with ajoure festooned and scrolled Renaissance ornament, enclosing small medallions of figures and portrait heads sihouetted against gold backgrounds.
Length 7I/2 inches
Collectipn of Henri Dafijierre, Paris
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; Pendant, Set with Rock Crystal Mosan, Late XII Century
Obverse embossed and repousse with running design of foliated volutes sur¬ rounding a lozenge set with a rock crystal cabochon ; the whole within a copper border with gilt spots. The edge is similarly repousse with running leaf scrolls; the reverse decorated in gold on a copper ground with border medallion and leaf scrolls. Length 6y^ inches
— ^ Note: Dr Otto von Falke att^butes this example to the atelier of Godefroy de Huy.
^■Collection Ruetschi, Lucerne
370{ Pair Dinanderie Small Pricket Candlesticks XVI Century
Slender double baluster shaft supporting a pricket and bell-shaped grease tray; on round molded foot. Scarce in this size. Height 8 inches
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Jronze and Eglomise Glass Reliquary Triptych
South German, XVI Century Arched centre panel depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the wings with figures of SS. Mark and Luke writing, the exterior with an escutcheon, all in gold and colored eglomise; surmounted by a finial Crucifixion and two tiny figures of saints; on a coffer-form base engraved with floral scrollings and sacred em¬ blems and containing a drawer; lion feet. Together with an Italian Gothic eglomise glass plaquette depicting two saints, framed. [Lot.}
Height of triptych 9 inches; length of plaquette 3 inches Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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IlNANDERIE BrONZE PrICKET CANDLESTICK
Flemish, Late XIV Century Plain pricket springing from a circular base, on three serpent-head feet. Light golden patina. Height 9I/2 inches
From Henri Gamier, Lille
373. Gothic Parcel-Gilded Copper Pyx French, circa 1400
In the form of an hexagonal rusticated tower with alternate panels engraved with figures of three saints in round- arched niches; hinged cover in the form of a crenelated roof and tiled hexagonal spire with rock crystal ball finial.
Height 7I/2 inches
From Demotte, Inc., New York
3f4fPAiR Small Bronze Candlesticks Venetian, XV Century
Ring-molded cylindrical candle holder with flat tray, on plain bell-form base engraved with three escutcheons. Height 5 inches
Collection of Luigi Grassi, New York, 1927
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375. Romanesoue pwbED Bronze CRUCIFIXION Figure Nude figure ^th araped loincloth, heavily gilded.
XII Century Height 5^ inches
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)MANESQUE GiLDED Bronze CRUCIFIXION FIGURE XII Century
Nude figure with draped loincloth, the head showing Semitic features; the physiognomy and treatment are of great interest. Height 6 inches
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377. Romanesque Dinanderie Crucifixion Figure German, XII Century Nude figure with knotted and draped loincloth, the head with closed eyes bent straight forward; hollow cast. Height 7 inches
Note: An interesting early rendition in dinanderie, attributable to the school of Rogerus of Helmarshausen.
Collection Sigmaringen
From the Goldschmidt Galleries, New York
Exhibition of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., 1940, no. 263
Mentioned by Dr Hans Swarzenski in the Art Bulletin (College Art Associa¬ tion), Sept. 1942, p. 303
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f8. PIv/ Renaissance Tooled Leather Articles XV-XVII Century
Small sarcophagus-form coffret, blind-tooled with floral cartouches; brush with gold-tooled leather handle ; two Rhenish carved leather dome-shaped containers for pyxes; and a mammiform gold-tooled leather box containing a coconut drinking cup with engraved silver rim having the arms of Pope Pius II. [Lot.}
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Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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Oblong box with hinged and gabled cover surmounted by a thin triangular pediment between two spires, the whole in plain copper with traces of gilding. The pediment is fitted with a Romanesque annular brooch with border of col¬ ored semi-precious stones surrounding an ajoure silver quatrefoil wrought with the Paschal Lamb. Height 9 inches
381. Gothic Bronze Pricket Candlestick Flemish, XV Century
Central knopped pricket supporting short flaring arms with open candle holders; ring-molded dished base on three teet. Dark greenish patina. Height 10 inches Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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French, Late XIV Century Kneeling figure of a bearded man wearing a short tight-waisted jerkin, the right hand extended upward; on triangular base supported by three short human legs. Together with a small spice box in the form ot a frog, with hinged back. [Lot.}
Height 9 A3 inches
*Romanes<^je JeweleSA.nd Engq!^ed Gilded Copper Phylactery Set with Rock Crystal /y French, XII Century
In the form of a quatrefoil in engrawd gilded copper, studded with circlets of small colored stones, semi-precious and otherwise, surrounding on the obverse five large oval cabochons of rock crystal, and on the reverse four smaller cabo- chons of rock crystal and one of amethyst. Diameter 7!^ inches
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384. GOTHKfPARCEL-GlLDED BRONZE STATUETTE OF S. JOHN THE BAPTIST
French, Early XV Century
Standing nude figure with long hair and beard embellished with gilding, and gilded loincloth, the head bent, the right hand carried up to the breast. An extremely expressive work, both in the physiognomy and stance of the figure.
Height 9^ inches
From Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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385. Romanesque Dina^derie Crucifixion Figure French, Late XII Century Angular attenuated figure with asymmetrically folded and draped loincloth and wearing a crown. Has bronze stand. Height 10I4 inches
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French, Early XIV Century Bulbous bowl and cover repousse with collars of oval bosses, on conforming knopped shaft and stepped octagonal foot; the rim engraved with Latin inscrip- tion^
3^.'t6THic Dii^NMi^R^EWATER DiSH French, XV Century
Large round dish, the cavetto bossed with a central stag medallion surrounded by four blank cartouches, between which are lion-head ornaments with pine cone pendants enclosing running stags, reversed. Rare type.
Diameter 19% inches
Exhibition of Brass, Rho^e^land School of Design, Providence, R. L, 1941
^SS. Gothic Dj^I^derie Prj^ket Candlestick French, XV Century
Pricket with l^^perforated ^ease tray, on ring-molded stem, hexagonal in the lower portions, and resting on a high tiered round foot pierced with orifices.
Height 17 inches
From the^Goldschmidt Galleries, New York
3‘89YrapbussE Brass Dish Flemish, XV Century
Deep dish with cavetto bossed with figures of Adam and Eve in the Garden and surrounded by borders of uncial writing and small stamped ornaments.
Diameter 15% inches — ■
390. Gothic Dinanderie Two-Light Candlestick XV Century
Stem flaring into a U with two candle holders, on ring-molded bell-form base with three feet. Height sH/2 inches
From the Goldschmidt Galleries, New York
391.. Romanesque Engraved Copper Lavabo North German, XIII Century Round dish engraved with three-quarter-length seated figure holding two discs, surrounded by four bust-length figures of women, between which are growing papyrus plants. Diameter 10^ inches
Collection of Qr Albert Figdor, Berlin, 1930, no. 438
ianesQue Gilded Copper Crucifix, Inset with Rock Crystal
Italian, XII Century
Greek cross with slightly flared arms centring a stiff formalized figure of the Savior in draped loincloth, the ends inset with large rock crystal cabochons.
Height 14I/2 inches
Collection of the Marquis de Talleyrand Collection of Mrs Caroline R. Hill
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ANDERiE Lion Aquamanile
North German, Early XIV Century Well-modeled standing figure, the mane forming a species of beard over the chest, the mouth pierced as a spout; the head with small hinged cover attached by a loop to the back and joining an S-scrolled tail. Height 8I/2 inches
Collection of Henri Daguerre, Paris
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394. GOTHI^ DlNANDmiE^1lo5^^!i?TER URN IN THE FORM OF A ToWER
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Eranco-Elemish, Early XV Century Ring-molded cylindrical body with a coronet of fieurdelise crenelations and de¬ tachable conical cover; straight spigot with lion tap; standing on three splayed human legs. Height i6y^ inches
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395. uiNANDERiE Tall Ewer Franco-Flemish, XV-XVI Century
Tall-necked vessel with small globular body on narrow stem and wide round foot, S-curved animalistic spout and conforming handle, with hinged dome cover and animal-headed thumbpiece. Height 13 inches
Collection Delannoy, Paris
Exhibited at the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo., 1935 Exhibition of ^r^s, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R. I., 1941
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Double balustered and ring-molded shaft on flaring round foot.
Height 26I/2 inches
[See illustration on page 158}
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397. Gothic Ajoure Cast Iron Fenestral Panel French, XV Century In the form of a lancet window, richly traceried and centring a half-length figure of the Virgin. ^ Height 19 inches
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Pricket with broad circular grease tray, on ring-molded and lightly knopped stem and broad tiered circular base. Height 20^/2 inches
399. *Early Gothic Gold-Mounted Onyx Agate and Carved
Wood Sceptre French, XIII Century
Comprising sections of striped onyx agate banded with engraved gold, enclos¬ ing a wood capital carved in high relief with the Flight into Egypt, the shaft similarly carved with groups depicting the Fall of Adam and Eve, God repri¬ manding Cain for the murder of Abel, and the angel appearing to Abraham at the sacrifice of Isaac, beneath a circlet of crockets. Length 19I4
From Piero Tozzi, New York
400. Two Repousse Brass Dishes Flemish, XVI Century
Repousse with central clusters of urn motives and lily heads respectively, sur¬ rounded by double borders of Gothic and uncial lettering.
Diameters i5[4 ^5^ inches
401. Hispano-Moresque Intarsia Work Coffer Spanish, XV Century Narrow oblong coffer with sarcophagus cover and knobbed bronze hasps; in walnut, inlaid allover in ivory or bone with Moresque stellate tile patterns.
Length 17 inches
Collection of Henri Daguerre, Paris
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402. Gothic
In the form of an open hexagonal tower with crocheted steeple and matching inverted pendant, supporting six beautiful fieurdelise scrolled arms for candles, each terminating in a coroneted grease tray; containing a dinanderie crowned figure of a woman, from a different source, but also of the period.
Diameter 17^ inches
[See illustration]
Dinanderie Chandelier
French, Early XV Century
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rsuRiNG Stick, Finely Inlaid in Bone
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French, Early XVII Century Square measuring rod in wood beautifully inlaid in bone with running hounds chasing hares, deer and foxes, separated by foliated strapwork, the ends in bone engraved with figures of huntsmen and leaf scrollings. Rare.
Length 25I/2 inches
404. LtO^hic Gilded Copper Monstrance French, Early XIV Century Oblong glazed receptacle with imbricated gabled cover having cross finial, on octagonal stem with gadrooned knop and conforming cartouche-shaped foot.
Height s'ly^ inches
405. Fwo Ajoure Bronze Censers Spanish, XV -XV I Century
Plain bowls with ajoure covers pierced with foliated scrollings and rosaces respec¬ tively; suspended by chains. Heights 6 and 6I/2 inches
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406. Carved and Parcel-Gilded Boxwood Statuette of the Savior
XVI Century
Nude seated figure of Christ wearing a crown of thorns and girded with a gilded loincloth; his head resting upon his right hand and expressing profound anguish. Velvet plinth. ^ * Height 7 inches
407. Gothic Carved Bearwood Haut-Relief of the Adoration
Of the Magi Franco-Flemish, XVI Century
Depicting the seated figure of the Virgin holding the Child upon her lap, at¬ tended by the Three Wise Men, one of them kneeling before her, bearing gifts, with S. Joseph standing behind her and the Holy Ghost overhead. Inscribed at hdiSQ Caspar. Rex. Mdchio . . . Re. In fitted case. Height 81/^ inches
408. ‘Gothic Finely Carved Boxwood Pedestal French, XIV Century Hexagonal plinth richly carved in haut-relief with a prone figure of Eve with
^ / ^'^^long flowing tresses eating apples, and an allegorical serpent centring the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. On crimson velvet plinth. Height inches Collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 Collection of Mortimer Schiff, New York From Stora, New York
Exhibition of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass., 1940, no. 186
[See illustration}
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AT top: numbers 409 AND 408 below: numbers 410 and 41 i
409. CARVEiyBoxwooD Figure of a
Reeling Woman
Leonhard Kern, German: 1588-1620 Realistically carved figure of a nude kneeling woman holding an urn. On ebo- nized plinth. In vitrine. Height 7^ inches
Collection of Dr Bloch, Vienna Collection of Samuel Untermeyer, New York
[See illustration}
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ARVED Boxwood Statuette of an Athlete
South German, XVI Century Muscular nude standing figure of a man, his left hand brushing his curly locks, with the handless right arm upon his hip; on oak plinth. Height inches Collection of Dr Simon Meller, Munich
[See illustration]
Got^ Carved and Pi^cEL-GiLDED Pearwood Group of the IRGIN AND Child French, Early XV Century
Standing figure of the Virgin attired in hooded and loosely flowing robes, hold¬ ing the headless robed figure of the Child and caressing it with her right hand.
Height 10 inches
From the Blumka Gallery, New York
[See illustration]
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lie Carved Oak Group of the Virgin and Child
Flemish, XV Century
Seated figure of the Virgin in voluminous robes, holding the Child on her lap.
Height II inches
From Flenri Gamier, Lille
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413. Gothic Carved Walnut Statuette of the Virgin
Flemish, Early XVI Century Standing handless figure with hood and robe in deep folds; retains traces of polychromy. Height 14!/^ inches
414. Gothic Carved and Polychromed Boxwood Group of the Virgin and Child Northern French, XIV Cetitury
Finely carved standing figure of the Virgin in loose flowing robes and veiled headdress, holding the partially robed armless figure of the Child in her left arm. From Amiens. Height 13 inches
Illustration of numbers 410 and 41 1 appears on the preceding page
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4i ^"Gothic Carved Boxwood Group of the Virgin and Child
French, circa 1400
Seated figure of the Virgin with hooded cape, holding upon her left knee the armless standing figure of the Child. Height 14 inches
Exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N. Y,, 1932
). Gothic Carved Walnut Statuette of S. Catherine
Flemish, circa 1500
Standing figure of the Saint with long flowing tresses, holding an open book in her left hand; at her feet the bust of a man, possibly a donor.
Height 14I/2 inches
^457. Gothic Carved and Polychromed Group of the Virgin and Child
Italian, XV Century
Standing figure of the Virgin in chocolate-colored veiled headdress and light blue flowing robe, holding the draped figure of Child in her left arm.
Height 13I/4 inches
Collection of Cortlandt F. Bishop, New York, 1940
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418. Carved Boxwood Crucifixion Figure of Christ Italian, XVI Century Finely carved figure of the dying Christ with upraised arms and bowed head and clad about the waist with a loincloth. Mounted on a purple velvet plaque.
Height 17 inches
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419. Gothic Carved Oak Bust of Christ XIV Century
Life-size bust, apparently from a crucifix; the head with long curling hair, bowed to the right. Height 17 inches
420. Gothic Carved Lindenwood Bust of S. John the Baptist
Spanish, XV Century
Bust of the bearded saint with benign countenance and curling hair, his robes carved in deep folds. Height 17I/4 inches
[See illustration on page 158]
421. Carved Boxwood Crucifixion Figure of Christ
French, XIV -XV Century
Depicting the dying Christ with outstretched arms. His head with crown of thorns and girded about the waist with a loincloth. Height 19I/2 inches
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[number 422]
Wood Group of the Virgin and Child
French, XIV Century Finely carved standing figure of the Virgin in hooded and flowing robes, hold¬ ing the partially draped headless figure of the Child in her left arm.
Height 38 inches
From Joret, Paris
[See illustration]
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Loman/sque Carved Oak Group of the Virgin and Child
Xlll Century
Seated figure in flowing robes, holding the Child on her left knee. His right hand raised in benediction. Shows traces of polychromy. Height 31V2 inches
Collection of Albert Welti, Zurich Collection of Dr Hans Wendland, Lugano Sculpture Exhibitioi;i^t the R5mer, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1921
42 3 A. Early Gothic Carved Oak Statuette of a Saint
Amiens, XIII Century
Standing crowned figure with long flowing hair, with robe girdled at the waist.
Height 3 1 1/2 i'ftches
Frorn^he Connoisseur, Inc., JSlew York
42^ Gothic Carved and Polychromed Statue of the Virgin of the Annunciation German, Early XVI Century
Standing figure in crimson gown with white neckcloth and blue cloak ; her hands held in an attitude of prayer. , Height 38 inches
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French, Late XIII Century Hooded seated figure of the Virgin in flowing robes, the robed handless Child held upon her left knee, facing the observer. Height 37 inches
ic Carved and Polychromed Statue of a Saint
Spanish, Late XV Century Full standing figure of a female saint clothed in polychromed and gilded robes, her clasped hands held to her breast. Height 54 inches
Colleton of Edgar Spejj^, New York
4^7. Gothic Carved and Polychromed Linde nwood Statue of a Saint
Flemish, XV Century Figure of a female saint with long flowing tresses and voluminous robes, kneel¬ ing in an attitude of prayer. Height 47 inches
Colleton of Daguerre, Paris
428. Gothic Carved Lindenwood Statue of the Virgin
South German, Late XV Century Standing figure with hands clasped in prayer, and attired in a voluminous hooded robe. Height 30!^ inches
Collection of Edgar Speyer, New York
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SECOND SESSION
4jfc);?tjOTHic Carved and f’OLYCHROMED Life-Size Crucifixion Figure of Christ South German, XIV Century
Depicting the Savior with outstretched arms, His bowed head wearing a crown of thorns; clad in flowing loincloth. Height 5 feet 7I/2 inches
From A. Scheidhocher, Munich
[See illustration}
Gothic Carved Oak Statue oe a Saint Full-length standing figure of a female saint in strance in her right hand and a missal in her left. Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
Flemish, XV Century hooded robes, holding a mon- Height 35I/2 inches
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431. Carved Lindenwood Statue of S. Leonard XV -XVI Century
Full-length standing figure of the saint in loose fitting habit, his left forearm with maniple and holding a book ; over his right arm a chain reaching to his feet.
Height 36 inches
Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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432. Gothic Carved Lindenwood Statuette of the Virgin and Child
Rhenish, Early XVI Century Standing figure of the Virgin in long swirling robes, holding the nude Child in her folded arms. Height 12 inches
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THIRD SESSION Friday, May 13, 1949, at 2 p. m.
CATALOGUE NUMBERS 433 TO 661 INCLUSIVE
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^EXICAN, PERTO^N, AND OTOER PRE-COLUMBIAN ART 433. *Mexi(;a^ Ajoure Gold Labret
Hom-shapedT)rnament, the base pierced with bands of triangles and circlets. To¬ gether with an obsidian labret from Copan. [Lot.} Length i inch
Exhibited at tl^Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940
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/n 435- *Pair Peruvian Gold and Silver Shell-Form Pendants
Ear pendants, wrought as conical shells with silver base and inner whorls.
Height inches
Olmec CARAfErr Green Serpentine Statuette Portly nude male, squatting cross-legged, his hands resting upon his chest.
Height 2I/2 inches
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437. *Peruvian Wrought Gold and Silver Figurine
Half-length figure with gold head, silver torso and headband,' a gold banderole suspended from his right shoulder. Height 2I/2 inches
438. *Mexican Carved Emerald Green Jade Amulet in the Form of a Hand
Hand with clenched fingers and pleated cuff, pierced for suspension; in excep¬ tionally brilliant emerald green jade. Length 2!/^ inches
439. ’‘^wo Peruvian Silver Figurines
Cast silver warrior with toucan headdress ; and a wrought silver 'diving’ figure with detachable head, apparently alloyed with gold. [Lot.}
Heights 2 and 3!/^ inches
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|t):CENTRAL American Carved Green Stone Animalistic Lamp Recumbent bear-like figure, the ovoid body hollowed as a lamp; in variegated deep green stone. Length 3 inches
441. *Mixtec Carved Jade Statuette of Tlaloc
Squatting male figure of the god of rain with his arms crossed upon his knees, wearing an oblong headdress; in crystalline pale green jade. From Oaxaca.
Height 4 inches
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Maya BOLYCimoMED Pottery Jar with Figural Decoration Slightly swelling cylindrical jar, the ochre ground decorated in brown and brick red with panels of deities standing before vertical glyphs, beneath a collar of ovoid glyphs. From Honduras. Height 5% inches
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•443. Huastec Polychromed Pottery Animalistic Jar Squat pyriform vessel with strap handle, the shoulder molded with canine heads and feet in high relief, sketched with bands of black and white glyphs.
Height 8I4 inches
[See illustration]
444. Mixtec Polychromed Pottery Pitcher
Pyriform pitcher with pierced tubular handle; painted with medallions of head¬ dresses reserved in a black band below a collar of demi-figures and geometric motives. Height 8I/2 inches
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^'^445. Two Costa Rican Polychromed Pottery Beakers
Footed pyriform shapes, boldly painted with geometric motives and modeled with parrot- and jaguar-head handles. From Canton de Carrillo. [Lot.]
Heights II and 11I/2 hiches [See illustration of one]
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TOP row: numbers 444-443-442 BELOW: NUMBERS 446 AND 445
HREE Costa Rican Polychromed Pottery Beakers
Two painted with black geometric motives on a buff ground, and one modeled with a feline-head handle. From Canton de Carrillo. [Lot.]
Heights 8l/^ to htches
[See illustration of one]
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447. * Guerrero {}) Carved Jade Statuette
Rotund anthropomorphic figure in squatting pose, the hands resting upon the chest ; in pale green jade. Height 4 inches
Exhibited at the Los Aneeles Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., 1940
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^ ^ ^xxxvEE Peruvian and Other Bronze Ornaments
c7^ O 0 _ Engaging figure of a deity with elaborate beaded headdress ; axe head with in¬ cised glyph, from Guayaquil; and a parcel-gilded circular stand with radial motives in relief. [Lot.] Lengths iy^ to 4% inches
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Rudely carved mask with unpolished eye sockets, and prominent nose.
Height 5I4 inches
Exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., 1940
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450. *Nasca Gold Jaguar Pin and Pair Repousse Pendants
Long gold pin with naturalistic jaguar terminal; and a pair of gold foil flaring
pendants embossed with masks. [Lot.] Length 3I/2 and 6^ inches
^ ^ 451. *Two Peruvian Silver Bowls
Plain round bowl with sporadic green patina; and one repousse with two bands of seated monkeys wearing pendented headdresses. [Lot.]
Diameters 5I/2 ^nd 6 inches
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452. *Peruvian Repousse Silver Pectoral
Arched tablet, embossed with a deity in fan-shaped headdress and short skirt, flanked by two seated jaguars. From Casma. Height 6y^ inches
Exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., 1940
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,A53. LATE Inca 'Carved and Lacquered Wood Beaker (Kero) Intaglio-carved with a median ring and pairs of red-thatched huts, between two intaglio-carved bird borders; from Cuzco. Together with a wood dagger. [Lot.]
Height 7 inches
Exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1942,
Described and illustrated in Pal Keleman, Medieval American Art, 1943, vol. i, p. 339, and vol. Il, pi. 276c
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454. Guerrero Alabaster Tripod Jar and Two Beakers Spherical bowl and two footed beakers in banded alabaster. [Lot]
Heights ZZ 7 Inches
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[NUMBER 455]
455. *Gt5ERRERO Carved Sapote Wood Mask^Inlaid with Jade Executed with round contours, slotted eyes and'pierced ear lobes, the puck' mouth showing 'Olmec’ influence, and bordered with traces of copal enclosing three framents of a jade mosaic; the forehead and cheeks carved with depres¬ sions for anchoring former appliques. From Canyon de la Mano. In vitrine.
Height 7 inches
Note: An exceptionally rare mask, possibly the only one in the country of this size and quality.
Collection of William Spratling
Collection of Mrs James B, Murphy, New York
[See illustration]
456. PERi^i^rCXRVED .Black Basalt Animalistic Cup Engagiil^y carved ceremonial cup in the form of a legless llama with erect head. Together with a black diorite mortar. [Lot.] Length 7I/2 inches
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457. Two Peruvian Carved Serpentine Animalistic Cups Type of the preceding, but smaller. [Lot.] Lengths 3 and 3^ inches
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*"4'5S, l^^EXICAN POLYCHROMED POTTERY TRIPOD BOWL
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Thistle-shaped, with splayed tripod supports; sketched withX collar of red and white glyphs above a band of black and white imbrication^. Height inches
459. Four Peruvian and Mexican Polychromed Pottery Figural Jars Globular jar with portrait head finial; one shaped as a recumbent lion, one with two musician finials; and a Mexican three-headed animalistic vase, [Lot,}
Heights 6 to 8I/2 inches
1460'^^ wo Peruvian Silver Bowls Deep bowls in plain silver, the rims pinched at centre, [Lot,]
Lengths Y/l ^ inches
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Realistically carved head with protruding eyes and pursed mouth. From Cuzco,
Length 9 inches
Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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462, *Mexican Carved Jade Alligator Pendant
Flat slab of greenish white jade, incised to represent an alligator or amphibian.
Length 10 inches
Described and illustrated in Pal Kelemen, Medieval American Art, 1943, vol, i, pp, 304-305 and vol, ii, pi, 25 id
/ 6q 403. Mexican Sculptured and Polychromed Marble Mask of Xipe-Totec The god of the flayed, represented with distended parted lips, wearing a head¬ dress with fan cresting and median ridge carved with red-tinted glyphs. Has stand. Height 9 inches
Described and illustrated in Pal Kelemen, Medieval American Art, 1943, vol, l, pp, 116-117 and vol, ii, pi, 68c
Two Guerrero Alabaster Tripod Beakers Bulbous tripod beaker with tall cylindrical neck, in white and buff alabaster. From Xochicalco, [Lot,] Heights 9I/2 10 inches
Collection of William Spratling
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465. Aztec Sculptured Gray Lava Statuette
Male paralytic wearing a loincloth, seated with arms crossed and knees drawn up against his chest, his head lolling upon his left shoulder. Height 14^ inches '• Exhibited at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass., 1940 Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1940 Illustrated in the Vogg Art Museum Bulletin, March, 1940
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466. Post-Columbian Obsidian Mirror, of Important Size
Rectangular panel, the slightly convex surface worked to a high polish. From the Valley of Mexico. /7 yj 1.2, x oV! inches
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Totonac Sculptured Marble Head Head of a dignitary with plumed headdress, executed with the chac^teristic triangular cross-section. Has stand. Height ii inches
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Sculptured Brown Marble Animal Statuette Depicting a bear with angular limbs, seated cross-legged upon its haunches, the forelegs crossed before its-chest. Height 12I/2 inches
409. *Six Peruvian Silver and Copper Ornaments
Two round pectorals, one repousse with masks; woven necklace of square sec¬ tion; two pins with figural and crescent terminals, and a copper ear spoon with bird handle. [Lot.] Lengths 3I4 to 14!/^ inches
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470. Four Peruvian and Other Pottery Figural Jars Molded in the form of a grinning female head, a kneeling woman, and a seated figure holding a blouse; the fourth with transplanted loop handle having Mochica erotic figural terminal. [Lot.] Height 7^ to 9 inches
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UASTEC Sculptured Green Diorite Animalistic Yoke Horseshoe-shaped carving representing a frog with protruding tongue, the bul¬ bous eyes executed with slightly convex pupils ; in green and black diorite worked to a high polish. Length 17 inches
Exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1942 Exhibited at the Rochester Memorial Gallery, Rochester, N. Y., 1943
0 Ten Mexican and Other Pottery Vessels
Toltec reticulated figural brazier, tripod bowl, and a figural bottle with detach¬ able head, showing Maya influence; four Chipicuaro red bowls with geometric decoration; Costa Rican figure; and two Peruvian jars. [Lot.]
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473. 'Ten Mexican and Peruvian Pottery Vessels Five Peruvian polychromed jars and beakers, including one with painted mask collar; and five Mexican tripod bowls, one formed as a jaguar. [Lot.]
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c>:?<^4.Huastec Pottery Head of Important Size
Youthful head with pointed chin, the eyes with perforated pupils; wearing a pierced turban. Height 9^ in^es
475. *Three Peruvian Repousse Silver Ornaments Molded plaque with a cone receptacle at base; and two foil figures. [Lot.]
Heights 2 14 to 9I4 inches
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[number 476]
476. Maya Sculptor^ Limestone Head of a Deity
Old Empire head ofmeroic size and tranquil expression, adorned with ear pen¬ dants and a plumed headdress with pendented forehead ornament, a tenon at rear; in greenish gray limestone with traces of white pigment. Copan type.
Height 15V2 inches
Exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York Described and illustrated in Pal Kelemen, Medieval American Art, 1943, vol. i, p. 138 and vol, ii, pi. 88c
[See illustration]
477. Thi^ Mexican and Other Polychromed Pottery Vessels Tripod bowl with median band of jade symbols; footed orange cup with war¬ riors’ trophies; and a two-handled ovoid vase with insect decoration. [Lot.]
Heights 3 to 7I/2 inches
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478. 'fwo Mixtec Carved Green Stone Ornaments
Squatting figurine, and a thin plaque incised with a head of a dignitary. [Lot.}
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479. *Six Inca Silver Hair Clips
Oval, spatulate and triangular, one inlaid with gold twin fish.
In case. [Lot.} Lengths 1I/2 to 2^/^ inches
Three Maya and Other Small Jade Carvings Maya fragment carved in relief with the head of a dignitary wearing a pendented headdress; Mexican polished green jade axe head, and flat bead with owl’s-head silhouette. [Lot.} Lengths i to 2^ inches
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I. uiGHT Peruvian and Other Carved Wood and Shell Ornaments Wooden earplug, comb and hand; shell belt with cruciform links; shell figure inlaid with mother-of-pearl; two carved shell pendants; and a coral red clam¬ shell inlaid with turquoise, from Tucson, Arizona.
-^2. *Six Inca Repousse Silver Foil Fragments Assorted shapes, embossed with alligator skin, bird and latchhooked lozenge- chain motives. [Lot.}
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483. Six Maya and Aztec Small Shell and Stone Carvings
Maya jade bead in the form of a miniature fish; Mexican obsidian bird’s-head pendant and two razors; and an Aztec jade animal-head bead and orange and white carved shell cicada. [Lot.}
484. * Spanish Colonial Carved Rock Crystal Skull
Death’s head in clear crystal, with pierced vertical axis. From Mexico.
Height 2ly4 inches
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485. Mortar Italian, XV-XVI Century
Tapered cylindrical shape, ridged with ten vertical flanges, two pierced as handles. Length 6I/2 inches
Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
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Atelier of Andrea Briosco (7/ Riccio), Paduan: 1470-1532 With the nude figure of a man astride a hollow camel’s head, the projecting mouth forming a spout. Length 5 inches
From the Blumka Gallery, Inc., New York
Atelier of Andrea Briosco {11 Riccio), Paduan: 1470-1532 Figure of a satyr seated astride a hollow dolphin, the projecting mouth forming a spout. Rich patina. Length 6^ inches
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488. Walking Faun'
School of Andria Briosco {11 Riccio), Paduan: 1470-1532 Horned and cloven-hoofed striding figure bearing a cornucopia-form ornament in both hands; brown patina. On ebonized plinth. Height 8% inches
Collection of Mrs Edgar Speyer, New York
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489. Figural Tripod Inkstand Paduan, XVI Century
Hexagonal vessel, the sides molded with three draped masks, and supported on three nude seated figures ; the cover surmounted by the figure of a warrior hold¬ ing a spear. Height 8% inches
Collection of Adolph Lewisohn, New York
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490" Mortar with Relief Decoration French, XVI Century
Modeled in relief with mascarons centring foliated scrolls between borders of oak leaves,^nd two S-scrplled handles. Diameter 6^ inches
491. Inkstand with Finial Figure of Mercury Venetian, XVI Century Triangular stand with strap and lion-paw supports, the sides wrought with scroll¬ ings centring mask roundels ; the cover surmounted by the figure of Mercury.
^ 7I/2 inches
4^^Lorelei Combing Her Hair South German, Early XVII Century
Graceful nude figure seated upon a draped rock and combing her hair; square marble plinth. Total height 8 inches
493. with Putto Finial Italian y XVI Century
Cauldron-shaped, the sides modeled with drapery festoons, and supported upon three nude seated figures; the cover surmounted by the figure of a putto holding a book and a ring. Height 7^ inches
From Henri Gamier, Lille
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-494. Venus after the Bath Giovanni da Bologna, Florentine: 1524-1608 Nude kneeling figure emerging from the bath; drying her. body with the left arm raised behind her head; on vert antique marble plinth dco.T'hronze dore base.
Height 9 inches
Collection of Judge Irwin Untermyer, New York
Illustration of numbers 488 and 489 appears on the preceding page
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Slender standing figure of a maiden with frilled bonnet, and a long cape over diaphanous robes, her head sharply turned, her upraised left hand holding an open book. Faceted red and black granite base. Height 19I/2
From Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York
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496. Desk Box Florentine, XVI Century
Fitted oblong box with paw feet, the hinged cover wrought with six acanthus leaves centring an oblong panel with cornucopias and roundel, the sides modeled with ram’s heads and Renaissance foliated scrolls. Length 9 inches
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497. Preaching ' ’ Flemish, XVI Century
Standir^^gure in voluminous robes with extended right arm, the left holding the folds of his cloak. Height ii inches
Collection of Henri Daguerre, Paris
498. Bust of a Man Austrian, XV Century
Primitively modeled head with pursed lips and full cheeks, the chest fronted with scrolls centring an oval blank cartouche. Has stand. Height inches From the Convent of Zwettl, Austria
Exhibited at the Museo Correr, Venice From the Blumka Gallery, New York
Described in F. M. Feldhaus, Die Technik der Vorzeit, 1914, fig. 556
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rT Carrying a Basket German, XVI Century
igure of a turbaned peasant carrying a hamper on his back; square base.
Height sy^ inches
499. Pe^ Stridini
From aHLectern
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500 Eagle, From atEectern Italian, XV Century
Vigorously molded figure with outspread w^^s and curving tail, perched with open beak; on pink Verona marble plinth. Length i^^ches
Collection of Comm. Elia Volpi, Davanzati Palace, Florence
Paduan, XV -XVI Century
501. Satyr ygkss Eagle Knocker In the form of the crouched figure of a satyr standing upon a bearded mask, backed by a volute and surmounted by an eagle.
From Stora, New York
Height 13 inches
502. llERCEfLES Italian, Early XVII Century
Muscular%earded nude figure in scanty drapery, holding a spiked club in his right hand, a lion’s head at his feet. On vert antique marble plinth.
Total height 12^ inches
503. PtfTTo Holding a Shell Italian, XVI Century
Seated figure of a nude putto holding a scallop shell upon his head. Ebonized socle. Height 5 inches
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*GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE SILVER *A11 Objects inJEhis Category Subject to the 20 per cent Federal Excise Tax
_504f-^-ET OF Six Gothic Silver and Niello Plaquettes
German, XV Century
Lozenge-form medallions depicting half-length figures of saints with their at¬ tributes. Mounted on velvet. [Lot.} Length 1I4 inches
From the Blumka Gallery, New York
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French, XIV Century
Quatrefoil medallions centring bust-length figures of bearded saints holding missals in the left hand. Height 3 inches
Collection of Otto H. Kahn, New York
5ocrENGk^^ED Parcel-Gilded Silver Salt Augsburg, circa 1600
Circular salt with three pomegranate feet, the wide rim engraved with scrolling foliations. Diameter 3% inches
Two Gothic Repousse Silver Statuettes of Bishops
French, XV Century
Seated figures of a bishop wearing a mitre and voluminous cope, with one hand upraised in benediction. With the Grenoble dolphin mark.
Heights 4I/2 and 4^ inches
L y^8. Wrought Siifv^ Large Traveling Watch /. Miroir, Paris, circa 1745 ' ^'^'CiFcular case elaborately wrought and pierced with scrolling foliations and shell motives enclosing a mythological vignette of Minerva presenting a laurel wreath to the armed figure of Mars, with a winged amor overhead bearing a torch, signed with initials i.l.b.; engraved silver dial. With original bronze key.
Height G-/2 inches
Collection of the Royal family of Coburg, Castle Steyr, Austria From the Blumka Gallery, New York
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509. Elizabethan Silver-Mounted Stoneware Small Tankard
English, 1597
Footed bulbous body with loop handle, finely mounted in silver with an en¬ graved strapwork collar having hinged cover with flanged knob finial, cherub thumbpiece, rattail billet, and crimped base mounts; the domed cover and foot repousse with mask cartouches and panels of fruit. Date letters only.
Height 61/4 inches
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
er-Mounted Carved Coconut Cup Austrian, dated 1781
Ovoid covered cup finely carved with scrolling foliations, birds and shell motives enclosing amoristic landscape vignettes; the silver mounts including a fruit cluster finial and three scrolled supports joined by a ringed underframe.
Height 61/4 inches
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: I. Gothic Repousse Silver Statuette of a Bishop Trench, XV Century Standing figure wearing mitre and cope, the right hand raised in benediction.
Height 7 inches
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■ Gilded Silver and Green Agateware Tankard
Rosenheim, dated 1664
Paneled cylindrical body of greenish gray agateware with plain median band and ringed foot and neck mounts, the sturdy S-scrolled handle engraved with a floral vine; the dome cover having knob finial and scrolled thumbpiece repousse with a border of acanthus, the interior engraved with the coat of arms of Franciscus Ruedorffer, inscribed and dated 1664. Height 61^ inches
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English, circa 1675
Fluted pear-shaped body engraved with S-scrolls interspersed with stellate and floral devices ; mounted with a flat-top cover engraved with a crest having pierced twin dolphin thumbpiece, sturdy S-scrolled handle and cable-molded ring foot. Maker’s mark bb with crescent, repeated; unidentified. No date letter.
Height 9^ inches
Collection of Lord Swaythling, London, 1924 Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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514. Green Serpentine Covered Cup, Mounted in Gilded Silver
Augsburg, circa 1600
Baluster-form footed vessel and dome cover of speckled greenish black stone; the fine gilded silver mounts around the rim and middle connected by vertical bands chiseled with lion masks, those around the socle and foot with fluting and tiny acanthus leaves; the lid surmounted by a gilded silver heraldic lion.
Height 13 inches
Collection of Bourgeois Freres, Cologne, 1904
Collection of Edward L. Berwind, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1939
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515. Gothic Gilded Silver Q^li^ *^ Spanish, XV -XV I Century
Plain cup applied with a lower /ollar of cusped arches; on hexagonal stem with large paneled bulbous knop engraved with foliations, on a flaring and cusped hexafoil foot, the alternate panels wrought with the Savior and foliage motives. Together with a gilded copper paten inset with a silver and niello medallion of the Ecce Homo. [Lot.] Height 9 inches
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5i6."(S<5thic Finely Wrought Gilded Silver Pax
Spanish, Late XV Century Depicting the Pieta with the Virgin in flowing robes holding the dead Savior and attended by S. Joseph of Arimathea and the Magdalen, below a cross bear¬ ing the sacred monogram; framed within a steepled and traceried arched niche; the reverse with foliated S-scrolled handle and inscription Ave Maria Gratia Plena Domini. With Segovia hallmark. Height 0P/2 inches
From French & Co., Inc., New York Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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Jlver Chalice Inset with Enamel *
North Italian, XV Century Cup engraved with a band of Gothic inscription and supported in a calyx of leafage; on hexagonal stem with a large paneled bulbous knop inset with six tiny blue enamel lozenges reserved with heads of the Savior, on a flaring val- anced and cusped foot repousse with panels of lilies and containing an es¬ cutcheon, the details in champleve enamel. Height 9 inches
Collection of Carl R. Lamm, Niisby Castle, Stockholm
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518. GOTHie^l^RCEL-GlLDED SILVER STATUETTE OF A BiSHOP
Khems'h, XV Century
Standing figure of a bishop, the right hand raised in benediction, the left hold¬ ing a crozier, and wearing a voluminous cope with engraved hood depicting two saints, and chased mitre inset with a ruby and sapphires, respectively; on hexa¬ gonal valanced base repousse with cusped arches and quatrefoils.
Height 14^ inches
Collection of Frederick Spitzer, 1893, no. 161 From Julius B5hler, Munich
Collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York
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Gilded Silver and Niello Crucifix
North Italian, XV Century Elaborately engraved and chased with Renaissance foliations, the quatrefoil terminals inset with four niello plaquettes representing the Four Evangelists, the reverse with captioned panels of Latin inscriptions. On stand.
Height 14 inches
Collection of Theodore Offerman, New York, 1937
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^5io.'^^^^oiJGHT Silver Crucifixion Figure Italian, XVll Century
Finely modeled nude figure of the bearded Savior draped with a loincloth, his thorn-crowned head inclined to the right in an attitude of profound sorrow. Mounted on velvet. Height 9^ inches
Collection of F N. Phelps Stokes, New York
521 ."Gothic Wrought Gilded Silver Monstrance Rhenish, circa 1500 Of flamboyant design with an hexagonal crystal-paneled receptacle supported upon a stem composed of a two-tiered Gothic tower, rising from a flaring hex- afoil pierced base enriched with two symbolic enameled medallions; the traceried spire surmounted by a foliated finial with enameled cresting.
Height 18^ inches
Collection of Martin Heckscher, Vienna Collection of John E. Taylor, London, 1912
Collection of Edward L. Berwind, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1939 Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1901
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Ic' Wrought Gilded Silver Monstrance
French or Spanish, circa 1400 With cartouche-shaped engrailed platform supporting a cylindrical glazed re¬ ceptacle with pierced steeple and finial of the Virgin and Child flanked by spired buttresses, two with double figures of saints; on knopped hexagonal shaft embellished with pierced arches, and ( 1 later) cartouche-shaped base repousse with foliated panels. Height 14I4 inches
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Spanish, Early XV Century Hexagonal receptacle having krched fenestrations and pierced steeple with cross finial; on hexagonal stem with engraved median knop and quatrefoil base. Height 14V2 l^^^hes
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524. PARCELfciLDED S^VER Chalice Italian, XVl-XVll Century
Cup applied with three oval medallions depicting the Last Supper, the Cruci¬ fixion, and Abraham sacrificing Isaac, between cherub-head spandrel orna¬ ments ; the knop applied with three cherub heads, the flaring hexafoil stem with cherub heads and garlanded emblems of the Passion. Height 7I/2 inches Collection of Charles N. Edge, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1946
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»25. Romanesque Sculptured Reliquary Arm in Gold Leaf Circa 1100 Upright arm with wide bracelet on square pedestal base; the whole coated in sheet gold. Height 21^ inches
Collection Hugo, Paris '
Exhibition of Arts of the Middle Ages, 1100-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, Bos- ^n, i^4erno. 211
5m"Ffe)MANESQUE WROUGHT SILVER ReLIQUARY IN THE FORM OF AN ARM
German, XIII Century
Upright arm, the palm with oblong receptacle for reliquary; the wrist, median band and base applied with filigree scrollings and inset with 'jeweled’ cabo- chons, the forearm further embellished with the tiny figure of the crucified Christ. Height 19I/2 inches
From Francis Drey, London
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527. Elaborately Wrought Gilded Silver Reliquary
/ Roman, XVII Century
Cartouche-shaped open frame with the finial figure of a saint, on knopped quadrangular shaft centring a cherub head and flanked by two winged figures with inscribed banderoles standing upon cornucopia-form supports; the oblong base with cherub-mask and scroll feet supporting winged allegorical figures bearing chargers with the head of S. John, a knife and other trophies, the frieze with a vignette repousse with the beheading of S. John. The whole elaborately wrought with baroque foliations, cherub heads and other period ornament. Height 38 inches; ividth 16 inches
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^28. Gothic Repousse Parcel-Gilded Silver Processional Cross 00^ / French or Spanish, Early XIV Century
Large moline cross centring a medallion of the crucified figure of the Savior in loincloth, surrounded by the symbols of the Four Evangelists, with an angel below, and God the Father within a mandorla above, the flaring terminals and median roundels elaborately repousse with medallioned scenes from the life of Christ. Has stand. Height 41V2 i'^ches; width 33I/2 l^^ches
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Repousse Gilded Silver and Cloudy Onyx Chalice
Italian Renaissance
Cup of cloudy striped brownish gray onyx, on gilded silver stem with chry¬ santhemum knop and bell-shaped foot, wrought with cherub heads and clusters of fruit and applied with four small leaf motives. Late work. Height 7 inches
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53o.^othicGold-W0Ven Brocatelle Mitre Lucca, XIV Century
Patterned with a design of stylized animals and flowering plants in gold thread; with two brick red and gold ribbons of Rhenish origin.
53z^^CAroi^an Silk and Silver Needlework Picture English, XV 11 Century Small stumpwork and petit point panel patterned with birds and floral sprigs in pastel colors, and centring the standing figure of a maiden playing the man¬ dolin, flanked by lions, stags and other animals, in a ground of silver mesh. Framed. 9 x t9 inches
532. Three StuaiIt Silk and Gold Embroidery Bags
English, XVII Century
One worked in colored silks, gold mesh and crewelwork with the figures of Abraham, Isaac and the angel amid flowering trees; the other two with petit point floral stems and oak branches, in a gold mesh ground. Of exceptionally fine quality. Together with a gold- and silver-embroidered triangular panel of the period. [Lot.]
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533. Collection of Seven 'Gothic’ and Other Tapestry and Embroidery Bags XVl-XVII Ceritury
Small bags of various shape, one in sixteenth century gold- and silk-embroid¬ ered crimson satin heightened with seed pearls; two in brocade; and the others in geometric floral tapestry. [Lot.]
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Gothic Gold and Silk Embroidery Panel English, Early XV Century Needlepainted in pastel-colored silks and gold thread with the standing figures of a male and female saint in flowing robes, within crocheted and cusped arched niches. Framed. Very rare. 13V2 7 ^^ches
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535. Pair Gothic Silk and Gold Needlepainted Votive Pictures
French, XV Century
With a ground worked in gold thread and reserved in dull scarlet with inter¬ laced leaved ribbon ogivals enclosing figures of SS. Mary Magdalen and Bar¬ bara, and SS. Apollinia of Alexandria and Agnes, respectively. Framed.
5 X 9^ inches
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,530. KOMANESQUE FIGURED LiNEN BAND French or Rhenish, XII Century Embroidered with pale green and ivory roundels enclosing lozenges with styl¬ ized animal and floral motives, and applied with a rock crystal cabochon and five cham pleve enamel appliques. Very rare. 21 x 3I/2 inches
537. GoTmc Gold- and Silk-Embroidered Linen Armorial Border
French, XIV -XV Century
Embroidered with panels of rose and blue silk and gold thread with vertical stripes and fleurs de lis, said to be the arms appearing on the upper part of the shield of Rene of Anjou. 29!^ x 3% inches
Note: An historical analysis of the armorial bearings will be given to the purchaser.
This is a very rare early fragment.
From Bacri Freres, Paris
Exhibition of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1000-1400, Museum of Fine Arts, ^^E^ton, Mas^'i940, no. 109
538. Gothic Drap d’Or Crimson Boucle Cut Velvet Cushion
Italian, XV Century
Centring a pendented scalloped floral medallion, within stylized leaf and floral
53c). Gothic Crimson Silk and Gold Br^ade Armorial Fragment
^ Italian, XIV Century
Brocaded in gold thread with foliage devices, including fleurs de lis centring two armorial escutcheons, in a brilliant crimson ground. Framed. Very rare.
15x5 inches
Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt, New York
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540. Crewelwork Embroidery Picture Swiss, XVI Century
Depicting Rebecca in rose and buff skirt and blue bodice fetching water from the well? backgrounc^ of fruit-laden plants and an inscribed banderole. Framed.
" 20I/2 X 17 inches
541. -Gothic Gold-, Silver-, and Silk-Needlepainted Panel
Italian, XIV Century
Worked in gold and silver threads and colored silks with a panorama of scenes from the Life of the Virgin as follows: Expulsion of S. Joseph, with his be- throthed; Annunciation to S. Joseph, with figures of shepherds; S. Joseph and the Virgin embracing; the Birth of the Virgin; the Virgin on the steps of the Temple with S. Anne; and the Marriage of the Virgin. Framed. Rare early example. 61/^ x 48 inches
Collection of Jakob Goldschmidt, New York
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i:^. Royal Purple Brocaded Velvet Panel with Peacock Decoration
Persian, XVI Century
Soft textured velvet brocaded with alternate rows of iridescent blue, green and rose peacocks interspersed with floral sprays. Framed. A rare Safavid textile. ^ / y C/ ' 20 X 19 inches
^4^ Two Pairs Ruby Velvet Cushions Genoese, XVI-XVII Century
In finely patinated ruby and crimson velvet, one pair with cisele velvet borders of_^rolling Renaissance /foliations. With corner tassels.
544. TyFo Gothic Gold Embroidery and Needlepainted Fragments
French and Italian, XIII-XIV Century One depicting the marriage of the Virgin with the figure of a high priest join¬ ing the hands of S. Mary and Joseph, flanked by four attendants; the other with the Virgin surrounded by eight apostles, above a panel with three stand¬ ing