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)注脚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.