Lot 1055

Description

1) Bronze knife, Near East, circa 1000 B.C. Smooth blade, tapering slightly towards the rounded head with subtle chamfers and a soft transition before the cutting edges. At the transition to the hilt, a double row of two twisted wires each, surmounted by a grip plate as the terminal of the no longer extant handle of organic material. The initially wide tang tapering rapidly upwards into a thorn-like projection. Dark green Patina, minor nicks on the cutting edges. Length 24.3 cm. 2) Sharply cleaned, depatinated pin with a neck profiled by horizontal ribs. The pin head formed by approximately semicircular ribs arranged spherically around the circumference. Below the ribs of the neck, a short zone with incised decoration. Eastern Mediterranean, late 2nd millennium B.C. (Late Bronze Age III). Length 17.8 cm. 3) Pin with spherical projections arranged crosswise around a cylinder, the uppermost with a horizontal moulding around the centre. Glossy dark green Patina with minimal incrustation. Northeastern region of the Fertile Crescent, early 1st millennium B.C. Length 12 cm. 4) Double-axe pendant, northern Greece and adjacent regions, 7th century B.C. Blue-green Patina. Slightly warped and minor chips on the cutting edges. Width 4.7 cm. 5) Late Hallstatt period armring. European. Smooth, convex inner surface, soft transition with subtle edges at top and bottom. The slightly more convex outer surface profiled by closely set notches and ribs between them. Dark green Patina with slight incrustation. Diameter 7.4 cm. CULTURAL ASSET!

Provenance: Private collection in Munich (estate). Acquired by the mother’s late partner in the South German art market from the 1980s until the beginning of this millennium. Some of the works were purchased from Galerie Puhze (Nos. 1 and 2 on October 24, 2013; No. 3 on November 6, 2014, previously in the Claussen Collection, Hamburg, acquired in the 1970s).

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