Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Wooden Seated Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,000
A wooden figure of the goddess Isis seated on a throne; her right hand holding the breast, the left arm extended; wearing a tight-fitted robe and a bronze Hathor crown in the form of a sun disk between two cow horns; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Egyptian Core-Formed Royal Krateriskos
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,500
A dark blue glass squat krateriskos vessel with bulbous body, pedestal foot, broad tubular neck with applied everted rim, two lateral loop handles to the shoulder, white and yellow marvered trails in swags to the body and similar zigzags to the neck. -
Egyptian Palm-Column Glass Kohl Flask
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,750
A glass cylindrical vessel decorated to the neck with stylised palm fronds, outlined in yellow; to the body, bands of green and yellow. -
Greek Attic Black-Figure Vessel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,500
An Attic black-figure neck-amphora with triple-reeded handles, everted echinus lip and torus foot; to the neck, palmette-lotus chain with twisted links and glazed line above and below; to the shoulder, enclosed tongue pattern interrupted at the handles; beneath each handle, four palmettes and one hanging lotus bud, with two small horizontal buds at the intersection of the tendrils; beneath the figures, two glazed lines, a band of greek key pattern, a band of lotus buds, alternately open and closed and a band of rays above the foot; side A: a gymnasium scene with four nude male figures, each with inscribed muscular definition and a fillet to the head; the central pair consisting of one smaller figure standing on the other's raised foot, both hands held in preparation for a jump; to either side a male figure striding away, the right holding a spear, both with heads turned towards the central pair; side B: a quadriga seen from the front, the pole horses facing and the trace horses looking away; a bearded charioteer and a warrior in a lofty visored helmet and spears. -
Greek Dancing Satyr Statuette
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,000
A bronze statuette of a dancing satyr with right leg and arm straight, left leg and arm raised: erect penis to the body, bearded face with wide slender moustache and pointed ears, bald head; recess to the back for acceptance of a tail, now absent. -
Roman Statuette of Fortuna
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,750
A substantial bronze statuette of Fortuna (Greek Tyche) standing on a bell-shaped plinth with leaf ornament to the rim; the goddess standing in loosely draped chiton with mantle gathered at the shoulders, the hair dressed and extending in braids to the collar and neck, left arm supporting a cornucopia with overflowing fruit; tall stud modius above the head. -
Roman Statue of Diana
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,750
A finely detailed substantial bronze figurine of the goddess Diana (Greek Artemis) in an advancing stance, her right leg straight and left foot slightly raised, her separately cast left arm extended with the palm flat; the goddess dressed in a chiton pinned at the right shoulder with a disc brooch; the face rounded and youthful with large eyes and small nose and mouth, the back of the head open; set on a circular tiered stand. -
Roman Large Inscribed Silver Dish
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,216
A broad sheet silver dish with everted rim, low basal ring; pointillé inscription beneath the base 'ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ EVΞP[.]ETOY'. -
Roman Marble Head of Trajan
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,500
A marble portrait head of the emperor Trajan with thin lips drawn into a reserved smile, pronounced nasolabial folds and shallow nostrils; deep-set almond-shaped eyes framed by thick lids and characteristic coiffure combed forward over the forehead and swept over the ears; truncated below the lip and to the top of the head; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Western Asiatic Achaemenid Gold Ribbed Bracelet Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14,880
A matched pair of gold kidney-shaped bracelets with rib detailing. -
Western Asiatic Sassanian Gilt Silver Belt Garniture Set
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,750
A suite of belt fittings comprising: ten horizontal silver-gilt plaques, each a cluster of five parcel-gilt discs with leaf-shaped lateral extensions, loop below and parcel-gilt disc pendant with raised rim and centre; gilt-bronze belt buckle with addorsed animal-head motifs, radiating ribs to the loop, triangular-section tongue with bird-head detailing; square pyramidal counter-plate with petal detailing, central knop; mounted on a display board. -
Greek Decorated Cuirass
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,875
An iron cuirass with band of overlapping offset plates to the collar and shoulders, additional bands to the pectorals and in an arc across the thorax; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Roman Cavalry Sports Helmet Mask
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,125
A bronze face-mask fragment from a cavalry or sports helmet with moulded facial details, holes to the underside of the nose, openwork eyes with rings for the pupils, modelled top lip. -
Viking Sword with Orb Mark
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,375
A hand-forged iron sword with three-lobe pommel and decorated guard; the blade 45mm (1 3/4") wide at the upper end, gently tapering with fuller to both faces, rounded tip, indented ring to one face with silver(?) inlay, scaphoid-section lower guard with two rows of shallow pellets to each face gilt(?) inlay; flat tapering tang; pommel of Petersen's Type S with traces of vertical inlaid wire. -
Viking Gold Necklace with Raven-Head Terminals
Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,500
A pair of raven- head finials, each a bird's head modelled in the round with pellet eye and recurved beak; between the beaks, a suspension ring with ends wound round the shank, each one riveted to trichinopoly chain, middle section restored to form a wearable necklace. -
Viking Silver Hack 'Hoard' Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,625
A hack-silver hoard comprising: two complete kolben arm-rings; six arm-ring fragments; a square-section curved fragment with slot to each face; two twisted finger rings; a crescent pendant(?) with collar to each end; three sheet-silver pendant fragments; an earring fragment; five pendant fragments; a quantity of irregular molten silver; a quantity of ingots and fragments, mainly D-section and rectangular-section, some partly worked; twenty-seven ceramic crucible fragments; fifteen dirhem coins, two similar largely complete, eighteen similar cut-halves, one fragment. -
Viking Silver 'Hoard' and Vessel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,125
A silver 'hoard' group comprising: a twisted silver bracelet; a spiral with two intersecting smaller spirals; four pieces of round-section hacksilver; five D-section ingot fragments; nine square-section ingot fragments; a flat hacksilver bar; a length of trichinopoly chain; an openwork strap tag(?); an openwork pendant with figural detail (broken); five penannular finger rings; six rings with ends coiled about the shank; six annular rings. -
Medieval Gold Inscribed Quadruple 'Ring-Brooch' Love Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,750
A gold finger ring of exceptional composite construction and design formed from a band with four equally-spaced decorated annular ring brooch motifs as bezels, each with an eight-pointed star design with hatched background and a triangular 'pin' bridging the open centres; toothed edges to the band to imitate beading between and recessed into the band between the bezels, each riveted through the band, a rectangular panel incised to receive enamel with traces remaining; each panel depicting a reserved single lowercase Gothic letter between two pellets reading 'b-i-e-n' meaning well, but also wealth, presumably an amuletic wish for the health and wealth of the wearer, unusually the letters are aligned circumferentially around the ring; also between the bezels, a double pair of delicate wire scrolls with bead terminals affixed to each side of the band, two lacking. -
Medieval Gold 'BISN BAS BEIN' Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,000
A gold finger ring with D-section hollow-formed hoop, three rosettes to the outer face with interstitial panels and blackletter inscription: 'BISN BAS BEIN', The PAS documentation suggests 'BEIN' is a misspelling of bien for 'well' or 'good'. -
Post Medieval Duke of Wellington Cameo Signed Morelli in Gold Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,750
An onyx cameo profile portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington with 'MORELLI' mark beneath; set into a substantial later gold finger ring comprising a broad hoop with high-relief foliage detailing and blue enamel field, divided shoulders with scooped spur supporting a hollow-formed plaque with scrolled foliage ornament, stamped to the hoop '750' (for 18ct gold) and 'A473'; silver upper face formed as a wreath with inset diamonds.
3rd century AD
Lot No. 0179
Sold for (Inc. premium): £575
1st century BC-1st century AD
Lot No. 0180
Sold for (Inc. premium): £938
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0181
Sold for (Inc. premium): £550
1st-2nd century AD
Lot No. 0184
Sold for (Inc. premium): £1,426
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0186
Sold for (Inc. premium): £688
4th-5th century AD
Lot No. 0187
Sold for (Inc. premium): £813
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0188
Sold for (Inc. premium): £450
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0189
Sold for (Inc. premium): £325
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0190
Sold for (Inc. premium): £375
2nd-3rd century AD
Lot No. 0193
Sold for (Inc. premium): £575
4th century AD
Lot No. 0194
Sold for (Inc. premium): £525
1st-2nd century AD
Lot No. 0197
Sold for (Inc. premium): £1,250