< Previous56A VESSEL FRAGMENT WITH PANTHER W. max. 8.9 cm. H. max. 7.6 cm. Clay, beige coating, red and brown matt paint. Egypt, Coptic, 6th‒7th cent. A.D. CHF 800 Slightly curved pottery fragment with fine lines from the turning process on both sides. The concave surface is decorated with the painting of a panther striding to right and turning his face, which is depicted frontally, back over his shoulder. The contours and details are painted in brown whilst the fur is rendered in a reddish orange. Reverse unpainted. Beige coating on both sides. Probably from a plate or a shallow bowl. Formerly priv. coll. of Maurice Bouvier (1901–1981), a Swiss Professor of Law and Economics who lived in Egypt as of 1929 and in Alexandria from 1943–1959. He returned to Switzerland in 1959. Thereafter by descent to his son Jean-Francois Bouvier. Exhibited: Musée Bargoin de Clermont-Fer- rand (2008–2009). For the painting, cf. a Coptic storage vessel in the Musée du Louvre, Paris: C. Neyret, Les Céramiques coptes du musée du Louvre, Mémoire de l’Ecole du Louvre (1966) no. 161.57AN OIL LAMP WITH BIRD APPLIQUE L. 12 cm. H. 9.4 cm. Bronze, solid cast. Byzantine or Islamic, 6th–11th cent. A.D. CHF 1,600 The lamp with elongated heart-leaf nozzle is decorated on the exterior of the rim with tri- angular appliques. These frame the openwork handle composed of an upright rectangle and a circle with a stylized bird perched on top. The heart-shaped lid with knob and engraved decoration is attached to the lamp by means of a hinge. On the underside of the lamp, the traces of a foot or candelabrum are visible. Intact Priv. coll. G. P. Lausanne., Switzerland, since 1958. For a bronze lamp with a related nozzle, foot and upright, rectangular handle topped by a pomegranate applique, cf. Kestner-Museum Hannover, inv. no. 1971, 79: A. Mlasowsky, Die antiken Tonlampen im Kestner-Museum Hannover (Hannover 1993) 460 f., no. 453 with illus.58A SILVER DUCK’S HEAD PROTOME L. 4.9 cm. Silver with gilding. Caucasus, 6th cent. A.D. CHF 2,000 The duck’s long, slightly open bill, the upper half of which is shaped like a roof, transitions into the almost spherical head. The large eyes are both offset by a pair of engraved lines that accentuate the eyes’ tear-shaped form. The neck forms the socket and is engraved with a raised zigzag band framed by fine double grooves. Intact. Gilding partially abraded. The protome probably served as the terminal of a drinking horn. Formerly European art market prior to 2000. Thereafter priv. coll. Surrey, UK, acquired on the UK art market.59A CHILD’S BRACELET WITH CALF’S HEADS Dm. max. 4.7 cm. Silver. Northern Greece, Chalkida or Macedonia, end 6th–1st half of 5th cent. B.C. CHF 1,200 Smoothly worked hoop ending in two stylised calf’s heads. The creatures’ eyes are ring- punched and behind them are the engraved outlines of the rounded horns. The finely scored lines on the lower edge of the heads represent fur. Traces of gilding. One muzzle worn, otherwise intact. Formerly Herbert A. Cahn, Basel, 1990s. Closely related in style to a bracelet of the same size with snake-head termini in the Stathatos Collec- tion, see P. Amandry, Collection Hélène Stathatos. Les bijoux antiques, vol. 1 (Strasbourg 1953) 50 ff., no. 118, pl. 22. Unlike those on the more common bracelets of the snake-head termini type, the heads on our bracelet lack a clearly defined mouth opening and sharp teeth.60AN INTAGLIO WITH A BILLY GOAT W. 1.3 cm. Brown-yellow, partly transparent chalcedony. Roman, 2nd–3rd cent. A.D. CHF 850 Almost round intaglio. The engraving depicts a billy goat with long horns, goatee and shaggy fur ambling to left on a groundline. Intact. Goats were a highly popular motif for fingerrings and gems in Roman times. Formerly Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger, Munich, Auction 252, 25.–26.9.2007, lot 1592. A nicolo gem engraved with a goat struggling with a satyr is stylistically related: British Museum, Lon- don, inv. no. 1872,0604.274 (online).Next >