Hollow-formed piriform body with three columnar legs, strap handle with applied detailing and applied collar, tapering neck and strigine head with applied loops to the eyes. 442 grams, 17 cm high



UK collection, 1990s. Acquired on the UK art market, before 2000. Private collection, Mr M.V., a London-based businessman.

Comprising a square-section body with overlapping U-shaped handles above, one side with an incised image of a seated male holding a long staff. 46.3 grams, 38 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Square in plan with chevron handle, openwork stepped saltire design. 79 grams, 60 mm



Ex collection of a late London gentleman, 1990s. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Broad and squat in profile with repoussé basal ring; incised ring below the rim to the outer face. 169 grams, 16 cm



Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Private collection, London, UK.

Including four miniature amphorae each with a ribbed collar to the neck, and a fifth with sealing wax at the mouth. 130 grams total, 9.2-14.2 cm



with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016.

Shallow with thickened rim; encrustations to the outer face. 396 grams, 21 cm wide



Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11631-199032.

With curved flaring cutting edge, characteristic curving shape and narrow socket, blade end squaring off, shaft hole pierced on both sides. 227 grams, 10.6 cm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

These collared axes have the specific feature of being equipped with variously shaped rear extensions. The provenance of this typology is clearer than others: these axes came from Margiana and southern Bactria. Gonur Depe and Susa yielded a rather atypical and probably imported example. P. Amiet suggests that they were an adoption of Elamite material, from conceptual and institutional models. They would have developed from the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C.

Belonging to a dagger and its scabbard, comprising: a tubular pommel cap with filigree ropework, repoussé floral motifs; an elliptical-section scabbard throat with billetted border, reeded edges and floral motif; a triangular chape with reeded strip to the mouth. 27 grams total, 29-64 mm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

With corrugated raised midrib extending to a short tang, fullers with curved ends extending to the shoulders. 345 grams, 47.5 cm



Ex Abelita family collection, 1990s.

Including reproductions of British Royal Artillery [10 pieces], 8th (The King's) Regiment Foot [7 pieces], Butler's Rangers [40 pieces] and others plain [15 pieces]. 561 grams total, 15-24 mm



From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.

Mainly barbed and tanged types. 280 grams total, 6.3-16 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Triangular in profile with rounded shoulders and thick square-section mid-rib running to the tip; short flared neck and square-section tang. 331 grams, 42.3 cm



Ex Abelita family collection, 1990s.