Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Face Mask of a Young Male
Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,827
A polychrome plaster mask of a curly-headed young male, with additional curls painted to the forehead in a carefully arranged band; thick black pigment outlining the eyes; pink pigment to face with lighter pink to the mouth; either side of the face lappets of a striped tripartite wig falling to the shoulders, decorated with vertical pale blue panels. -
Egyptian Silver Finger Stalls
Sold for (Inc. bp): £48,578
A full set of sheet-silver finger stalls for the right hand of an important mummy, the knuckles, cuticles and nails well delineated; originally made to protect the mummy's fingers not only from physical injuries during the burial process, but also from magical dangers in the afterlife; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Parthian Amphora-Shaped Figural Rhyton
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,144
A turquoise-glazed rhyton formed as a conical amphora with a cylindrical neck flanked by twisted zoocephalic handles; the curved based formed as a head of an ibex with pierced muzzle; above a facing female head with curled swelling hair, wearing a crown and a collar; a moulded medallion above the head representing a character reclining on a bed and resting against a cushion, wearing a sleeved tunic and trousers; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Greek Core-Formed Glass Aryballos
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,350
A core-formed cobalt blue aryballos, squat in profile with yellow trailing to the rim and shoulder, turquoise waves to the body, applied yellow loop handles. -
Monumental Roman Marble Head of Apollo Giustiniani
Sold for (Inc. bp): £57,150
A larger than life-size marble head of god Apollo, depicted in the style commonly known as Apollo Giustiniani type, the head slightly inclined towards the right and long hair gathered into a complex coiffure, tied into a topknot over the forehead with strands of hair falling symmetrically onto the forehead and temples, as well as on the neck, the locks dressed around the head leaving the earlobes uncovered, and pulled into a sumptuous chignon behind the neck; the face with fleshy, round cheeks with high cheekbones, almond-shaped eyes with thick half-closed lids, straight nose and slightly open mouth with plump lips; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Roman Marble Harpocrates Statue Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,430
A pair of life-size marble statues of nude children representing Harpocrates, the god of silence and secrecy, each presented standing on a plinth, the oval face framed by long wavy hair, lotus flower to the top of the head, one hand resting on a pillar surmounted by a pot, the other arm holding a cornucopia. -
Roman Marble Head of Mercury
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,890
A marble head of a youth, reworked as the god Mercury (Greek Hermes) with two plumed wings on his head, the face symmetrical with thick-lidded eyes and sharp brow bone, straight nose and full lips; short hair arranged in locks leaving the ears uncovered; a lightly worked mass at the back of the neck; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Roman Marble Statue Foot Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,430
A pair of marble feet from a statue, each naturalistically modelled with detailed toes and nails; each resting on a rectangular plinth, later cut from the original base of the statue. -
Large Roman Folding Tripod Table Support with Panther
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,525
A bronze leg from a tripod camp brazier or basin, the shaft with bead-and-reel decoration, a flat panel to the top with a six-petal rosette; the central ornament an arched shield with intricately carved scrolled vines, rosettes, crosses and hatching, a horizontal crenelated ridge to the centre and feline paw to the lower edge; the top part of the shield with a projecting panther head with long and arching neck, radiating mane and pointed ears, open jaws with the tongue lolling between the sharp fangs; perforated flanges to the reverse for the hinges, one absent; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Achaemenid Gold Bracelet Pair with Ram's Heads
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35,560
A matched pair of gold penannular bracelets, each a round-section shank with segmented ropework outer face and hinge to the junction; the finials a pair of opposed rams' heads each with textured fleece, segmented horns, pellet eyes, hinged clasp between. -
'The Desmond Morris' Chinese Tang Camel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,144
A glazed ceramic Bactrian camel modelled in the round standing on an integral rectangular base, neck thrown back, head held aloft, with semi-naturalistic detailing to mouth, head, eyes, mane, tail and feet; cream and brown glaze. -
Chinese Tang Caparisoned Horse with Lowered Head
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,620
A ceramic horse modelled in the round standing on an integral rectangular base; the horse's head and neck bent low, whilst the animal grooms its left foreleg with its teeth; finely executed semi-naturalistic anatomical detailing to the mouth, muzzle, head, eyes, legs and hooves; short tail dressed and tied with a ribbon, cropped mane in immaculate bunches, moulded saddle with saddle cloth, harness with discoid pendants; remains of painted pigmentation. -
South East Asian Khmer Guardian Figure
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,860
A sandstone figure of a guardian lion, the mane arranged in a mass of thick curls across his chest and on the back of the head, the face framed by a triple line of plain foliage, the mouth open in the act of baring teeth, bulging eyes with the pupils formed as a spiral, double outlined by stylised eyebrows; foliate collar arranged around the neck; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Large Umayyad Period Spanish Inscribed Marble Panel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,510
A large rectangular marble Andalusian architectural panel with central horizontal vine scroll with profile rams and birds in two registers with a band of Kufic text above and below and to each end; meander borders; keying to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Islamic Blue and White Pilgrim Flask
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,874
A blue and white glazed porcelain Chinese-made pilgrim flask for the Islamic market; comprising a crescent-shaped body with cobalt-blue scrolled tendrils and lotus flowers, conical knop finials; tubular neck with painted lattice ornament and bulb below the mouth; four D-shaped flange feet, drill hole to base; old label to base 'RALPH M CHAIT . GALLERIES . NY / Ming Dynasty 1368-1643 A.D.' -
Corinthian Hoplite Helmet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £114,300
A heavy bronze helmet of Archaic Corinthian typology, hammered from a single sheet with round-ended straight nose guard, large eye openings and arched cheek-pieces; the edges with regularly disposed holes for attaching the inner lining; flaring flange at the rear, separated from the cheek-guards by symmetrical angled nicks; remains of a bronze pin for the crest attachment on the bowl and two holes on the neck-guard for fastening the metallic crest on the back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Battle-Speared Illyrian Helmet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £45,720
A domed bronze helmet of Illyrian typology IIIA, variant 3, raised from a single sheet with cheek-pieces; two parallel raised ridges to the upper face with three incised lines; the smooth edges with a row of punched dots between narrow bands; short rear flange developing behind the curving cheek-protectors, each pierced for fastening of the chin-strap, one pierced with ferrous remains of a javelin tip(?) in situ, the other with a hole in corresponding place; square-cut frontal opening; button holes to the back of the neck-guard and a pierced hole at the front for attaching a crest; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
'The Axel Guttmann' Apulo-Corinthian Helmet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,574
A Magno-Graecian or Etrusco-Italic bronze helmet of Type B with an offset bowl, double-profiled eyebrow ornaments and small eye cut-outs flanking a slightly protruding nose-guard; the cheek-pieces connected by bridges; part of the central crest holder in situ, flanked by two side attachments for the crest side plumes; side holes for attaching the chin-strap, broad neck-guard with central eyelet loop; the cheek-pieces decorated with boars and the facial area and edges decorated with ribbons of herringbone ornament, the neck-guard with an eagle motif. -
'The Whixall' Early Bronze Age Cup-and-Ring Monolith
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,240
A large Permio-Triassic new red sandstone block of roughly triangular shape with one broad face showing pecked ‘cup-and-ring’ and other marks including the main element comprising a central circular ‘cup’ enclosed within four concentric pecked rings extending to approximately 23cm in diameter; from the centre of this element extends a straight linear ‘gutter’ some 26cm long aligned directly towards the pointed top of the block and terminating in another ‘cup’ depression with pecked half ring above; in addition, several peck mark areas are seen below the main ‘cup-and-ring’ element. -
Anglo-Saxon 'Eadwine me Fecit' Inscribed Pommel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,604
An irregular hexagonal-section bronze knife pommel or bolster, pierced vertically to accept the tang; incised ornament and legend comprising (beginning at the narrowest face): segmented panel; 'EA :'; 'DPIN', 'EME', 'EEIT', two square panels with pointed saltires. -
Late Medieval 'With Love and Joy I Think of Thee' Gold Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,890
A substantial gold posy ring with heavy D-section hoop, inscribed in black letter script around the interior and exterior faces: '+ with love and joie i thynk of thee' (exterior); '+ loke on thys gyft and thynk of me' (interior); remains of niello infill to the letters. -
Ethiopian Astrological and Astronomical Texts, Charts and Pseudo Apocrypha
Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,065
A text comprising fifty-eight bound vellum leaves with single wooden board; the text in Ge'ez and Amharic, written in a fine hand in double column format using black ink with highlighted sections and letters in red ink; drawings and text in selected borders; the contents cover: astrological tables, charts, calendrical calculations; pseudo-apocryphal texts; commentary on the Books of the Prophets; prayers of Moses, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Jonah, Daniel, The Three Children, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Mary and Simeon; Estimation of Enoch; philosophical texts; texts of a pseudo-philosophical nature, and others; single plain wood board without spine covering. -
Celtic Iron Age Coins - Catuvellauni - Tasciovanus - Tascio Rigon Variant Gold Stater
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,064
Obv: TASCI / RICOIN in two lines within double tablet with pellets and loops at ends, set over vertical wreath. Rev: helmetted warrior in chain mail riding horse left, looking back over shoulder to right, holding sword and long shield (behind tail); pellet-in-rosette before, pellet-in-ring below. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Ecgberht of Wessex - Winchester / Beornheard - New Dies Monogram Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,842
Obv: SAXON inscription with letters separated and set around the A with +ECGBEORHT REX legend from 7 o'clock. Rev: cross with +BEORNEHART legend from 1 o'clock for the moneyer Beornheard (sometimes given as Beornehart) at Winchester mint.
15th century AD
Lot No. 1759
Sold for (Inc. premium): £114
9th-10th century AD
Lot No. 1760
Sold for (Inc. premium): £140
17th-19th century AD
Lot No. 1762
Sold for (Inc. premium): £32
16th century AD
Lot No. 1765
Sold for (Inc. premium): £114
16th century AD and later
Lot No. 1766
Sold for (Inc. premium): £13
19th-20th century AD
Lot No. 1767
Sold for (Inc. premium): £533
c.1880 AD
Lot No. 1768
Sold for (Inc. premium): £169
19th century AD
Lot No. 1770
Sold for (Inc. premium): £38
15th-17th century AD
Lot No. 1771
Sold for (Inc. premium): £32
19th century AD
Lot No. 1772
Sold for (Inc. premium): £191
18th-19th century AD
Lot No. 1773
Sold for (Inc. premium): £51
17th-18th century AD
Lot No. 1774
Sold for (Inc. premium): £127