Vente 001 Partie 1
Ancient Art, Antiquities
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LOT 351:
Bronze Age Ceremonial Cup Stone Slab
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Vendu pour: £950
Prix de départ:
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Prix estimé :
£500 - £700
Commission de la maison de ventes: 36%
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Bronze Age Ceremonial Cup Stone Slab
Circa 2nd millennium B.C. Irregular slab fragment with weathered upper face, cluster of seven cup-marks without surrounding rings. See Glob, P. V., Helleristninger i Danmark Vol. VII, Jysk Ark?ologisk Selskabs Skrifter, Odense, 1969; Milstreu, G.& Dodd, J., The cup-mark: the smallest, most frequent, cosmopolitan and most complicated symbol in Adoranten, 2018. 50.6 kg, 57.5 cm (22 3/4 in.).
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
The fragment plausibly represents one corner of an arrangement such as that at Tanum, Denmark (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.8) in which a cluster of shallow depressions forms a larger pattern. The depressions may have been used to collect dew or rainwater, visualised as a gift from the gods provided without human intervention, as well as for ceremonial uses. [No Reserve]
