Sold2022WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE PIN WITH CHAIN LINKCa. 1800-600 BC A fine ancient Luristan cast bronze pin, displaying a needle-shaped body terminating in an ibex head. The animal is modelled in a stylised manner with emphasized facial features, suchSee Sold Price
Sold2022WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE DRESS PINCa. 1200-550 BC A finely modelled ancient Luristan cast bronze pin, featuring a needle-shaped body terminating in a griffin-shaped finial. The animal is modelled in a stylised manner with emphasised fSee Sold Price
Sold2019Western Asiatic Luristan Pin with Goat8th century BC. A bronze dress pin with segmented finial surmounted by an ibex modelled in the round. 12.5 grams, 13cm (5"). Ex North London gentleman; formerly with Pars Antiques, London W1, in the 1See Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan and Later Pin Group2nd millennium BC. A mixed group of bronze dress pins, two with openwork discoid head, one an openwork square, one an openwork zoomorph. 175 grams total, 8.5-13.5cm (3 1/4 - 5 1/4"). Property of a NorSee Sold Price
Sold2015Western Asiatic Luristan Master of Animals Finial13th-6th century BC. A bronze bifacial openwork finial formed as two opposed felines with socket mouths to top and bottom, looped tails below. 98 grams, 91mm (3 3/4"). From an important private LondonSee Sold Price
Sold2019Western Asiatic Luristan Poppy-Headed Dress Pin2nd millennium BC. A bronze pin with tapering round-section shank, ribbed detailing, bulbous collar and conical finial. 58 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK inSee Sold Price
Sold2015Western Asiatic Luristan Master of Animal Sceptre Base13th-6th century BC. A group of three tubular sceptre sleeves, each with ribbed body and flared base. 486 grams, 16-20cm (6 1/4 - 8"). Property of a North West London gentleman; formerly with a centraSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Bronze Short Sword13th-6th century BC. A bronze short sword with cylindrical hilt and triangular blade and tip; the hilt hollow with holes for the retaining pin for the organic finial; the blade with thick medial rib.See Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Roaring Lions1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with flaring blade decorated with a crouching lion with hooked axe shape coming out of its mouth; blade is attached to the haft by a lion head; haft decorated withSee Sold Price
Sold2020Western Asiatic Luristan Macehead with Human Figures13th-6th century BC. A tubular bronze macehead with gusseted collar to the lower end, ropework bands with geometric infill below a frieze of profile standing figures in ropework cells with hands claspSee Sold Price
Sold2015Western Asiatic Luristan Ibex Whetstone Finial13th-6th century BC. A hollow-cast bronze tapering socket with folded leg detail to the underside, short curved neck, triangular head with pellet eyes, triangular beard and recurved horns attached toSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Ibex Whetstone Finial13th-6th century BC. A bronze whetstone finial in the form of a leaping ibex with tubular body, forelegs drawn up beneath the shoulders, arched neck, curved horns with lobes to the outer faces; mounteSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Boar13th-6th century BC. A bronze adze with expanding triangular-section blade, tubular socket with rib detailing, figure of a boar to the rear of the socket modelled in the round with hatched bristles anSee Sold Price
Sold2020Western Asiatic Luristan Weapon Group13th-7th century BC. A group of four bronze weapons comprising: a slender spearhead with raised midrib, short pierced tang; a leaf-shaped spearhead with raised midrib, long tubular socket with rivet hSee Sold Price
Sold2017Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Figures2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with tubular socket and rectangular blade, slightly hooked to the underside; projecting section to the back with standing male figure to either side. 310 grams, 13cSee Sold Price
Sold2018Western Asiatic Luristan Dagger13th-6th century BC. A bronze dagger or dirk with parallel-sided blade, broad midrib, lower guard with flange shoulders and grip, T-shaped finial. See Khorasani, M.M. Arms and Armour from Iran. The BrSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Macehead13th-7th century BC. A tubular bronze macehead with flanges to the sockets, collar with incised triangular decoration, bulb with applied pellets. 310 grams, 87mm (3 1/2") Property of a North West LondSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Dirk2nd millennium BC. A large bronze dagger or dirk with triangular blade and raised median panel, rectangular lower guard and waisted grip with flanges to the edges. 316 grams, 43.5cm (17") Property ofSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Dagger6th-4th century BC. A bronze dagger comprising a slender lentoid-section willow-leaf blade, hollow grip with socket to each face to accept an insert and lateral flanges to retain it, D-shaped pommel pSee Sold Price
Sold2017Western Asiatic Luristan Lion-Headed Bracelet12th-8th century BC. A substantial silver bracelet with thick, rounded body, terminals in the form of opposed lion heads with engraved details. 255 grams, 88mm (3 1/2"). Acquired on the UK art market;See Sold Price
Sold2015Western Asiatic Luristan Ibex Terminal13th-7th century BC. A bronze finial comprising a ring with two rearing ibexes facing each other, their forelegs conjoined into a second ring, horns recurved with knop detailing. 50 grams, 87mm (3 1/2See Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Wrestlers2nd-1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with leaf-shaped blade with central ridge, socket with small rim to top and bottom; to the side small figures of two men wrestling. 187 grams, 16cm (6 1/4") ProSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Comb Axehead2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with tubular socket, ribs extending to spikes to the rear, curved blade with flange to the top and bottom edges. 281 grams, 15.5cm (6") Private collection, North LoSee Sold Price
Sold2016Western Asiatic Luristan Cudgel2nd millennium BC. A large tubular bronze cudgel with bands of raised ribs to the shaft, flared handle. 469 grams, 24cm (9 1/2") Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 1995; ex Cologne collecSee Sold Price
Jun 06TimeLine Auctions Ltd.Western Asiatic Silver Bracelet with Lion Head Terminals Holding a Menorah£650