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Lot 255

Four Near Eastern maceheads
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3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Four Near Eastern maceheads
Circa 3rd-1st Millennium B.C.
Comprising a calcite macehead of ovoid form; a red veined marble macehead of spherical form; grey veined marbled macehead of compressed spherical form with central aperture flanked by two smaller attachment holes; and a ribbed bone macehead, 4cm-7.5cm high (4)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Smallest macehead: Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 April 1997, lot 283.
Bone macehead: Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 20 October 1994, lot 192.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sales.
Other two maceheads: Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired prior to 1995.

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