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  • Etruscan Painted Terracotta Architectural Cornice
    Lot 0042
    Etruscan Painted Terracotta Architectural Cornice

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900

    A fragment of amorphous form, decorated in relief with scrolling tendrils and anthemion, painted egg-and-dart ornament above, surmounted by moulded bands and a frieze of meander and chequerboard panels; remains of red and black painted pigment.





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  • Roman Bronze Eros Cradling Goose Applique
    Lot 0071
    Roman Bronze Eros Cradling Goose Applique

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950

    Formed as the bust of Eros looking upwards, stub wings to his shoulders, holding a goose to his chest; conical socket above each wing; eyes with silver inserts; old collector's label '1994 51.75' to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand; likely a socket base.





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  • Roman Silver-Gilt Military Buckle for an Elite Imperial Officer
    Lot 0084
    Roman Silver-Gilt Military Buckle for an Elite Imperial Officer

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800

    Comprising a rectangular plate, richly decorated with embossed laurel leaves in a grid, framed with raised bosses, the buckle loop comprising opposing dragons with open mouths, holding a spherical tongue-rest, another pair of smaller dragon heads to base, the tongue with a smaller pair of punch-decorated dragon heads.





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  • South Arabian Bronze Bowl with Mythical Animals
    Lot 0201
    South Arabian Bronze Bowl with Mythical Animals

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,850

    Hemispherical in form, repoussé interior displaying graduated concentric registers of stylised and mythical animals within tessellating cartouches; a low relief mesomphalos decorated with rosette at centre; geometric ornament around the rim.





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  • Assyrian Bronze Relief Fragment
    Lot 0237
    Assyrian Bronze Relief Fragment

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900

    Displaying a corrugated rim above and below; two advancing soldiers, each striding forwards over the headless body of a dead enemy, carrying a severed head in each hand; the soldiers shown bearded and each wearing a pointed and segmented helmet with a recess to accommodate the ears, a cuirass and thigh-length tunic, with a bow over one shoulder and a sword slung from a waist belt; mounted on a custom-made display stand.





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  • Bronze Age Gold Bracelet with Torc-Shaped Terminals
    Lot 0319
    Bronze Age Gold Bracelet with Torc-Shaped Terminals

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,440

    Of penannular form with expanded sections at the centre and to both shoulders.





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  • The Oving Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch
    Lot 0324
    'The Oving' Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160

    Comprising a rectangular headplate with two panels of chip-carved Style I ornament, flanking a beast-head with triangular muzzle and two pellet eyes, raised three-sided frame and outer band of pellets above beast-heads with lentoid eyes; the shallow bow with raised median rib, flanges to the edges and punched pellet detailing; footplate with beast-head between curved pellet lines, pierced horse-head lappets, lozengiform central panel with knot of Style I limbs; two lateral discs, one pierced to accept a stud and the other with a domed stud in place; the finial a disc with human mask inverted; pin-lug and part of catch to the reverse.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch
    Lot 0327
    Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900

    Displaying chased panels populated with Style I zoomorphs and geometric forms, borders of annulets, raised masks to the upper corners of the headplate; applied discoid boss to bow decorated with a rosette, addorsed beast heads below; extensive remains of gilding; pin lug and catchplate to reverse and remains of ancient repair, lower part absent.





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  • The Tenby Hiberno-Norse Viking Penannular Brooch
    Lot 0353
    'The Tenby' Hiberno-Norse Viking Penannular Brooch

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640

    Comprising a round-section crescent with flared ends terminating in two curved spatulate flat panels, each with a ropework border surrounding a two-band knotwork motif; cleaned and conserved.





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  • Medieval Oil Painting of Sorrowful Virgin
    Lot 0369
    Medieval Oil Painting of Sorrowful Virgin

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100

    The weeping Virgin with her head bowed to the left and hands raised to her chest on a dotted gilt background, an expression of pain on her delicately formed face; wearing a white veil and a black long-sleeved robe, the veil arranged as a headdress and covering her hair; on wood and mounted in a later carved wooden architectural frame.





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  • Medieval Stained Glass Panel With Saint Martin on Horseback
    Lot 0371
    Medieval Stained Glass Panel With Saint Martin on Horseback

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080

    Shown beneath an arcade, offering his cloak on the end of his sword to the beggar at his feet; polychrome detailing; repaired with lead cames and held in a wooden frame.





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  • Medieval Stained Glass Panel with The Virgin and Child
    Lot 0375
    Medieval Stained Glass Panel with The Virgin and Child

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860

    Composed from irregular painted panels bearing mainly foliage designs and figural elements; Mary crowned and enthroned with infant Jesus on her knee, in a lobed vesica-shaped panel held with lead cames; mounted in a wooden frame with modern replacements.





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  • Medieval Stone Column Capital with Lion and Human Face
    Lot 0377
    Medieval Stone Column Capital with Lion and Human Face

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950

    Carved in the half-round with a frieze composed of interlaced foliage with two rows of acanthus leaves and foliage scrolls, framing a lion's head on one side and a human head on the other, remains of lion's mane to the third; drilled holes to the raised surfaces and sockets for the insertion of decorative stones.





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  • The Kirkleavington Medieval Bronze Inscribed Purse Frame
    Lot 0381
    'The Kirkleavington' Medieval Bronze Inscribed Purse Frame

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640

    The bar with central D-shaped block pierced vertically by a stud surmounted by the suspension loop, with four pierced flanges to the underside; the frame in two sections, the larger a U-shaped rod with pivot for the bar, the smaller pivoting within the inner face, both pierced on the inner face; the block inscribed to one face with capital S and to the other with intersecting Vs; the bar inscribed to one face in capitals 'A DOMINI TECVM' and to the other in coarsely incised capitals 'AVEMARIA G[R]ACIAPLE[NA]'; the smaller rod inscribed in capitals 'CREATOREN CELI ET TERRE ET IN [IES]VN'; the larger inscribed with a band of scrolled decoration and the text in Lombardic capitals 'SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA'; the accompanying letter discusses the texts (1) Ave Maria G[r]acia ple[n]a Dominus Tecum 'Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord [is] with thee'; (2) Soli Deo Honor et Gloria 'Honour and glory to God alone'; (3) Creatorem celi et terrae et inferum 'creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus'. The intersecting Vs may form a monogram for A[ve] M[aria]; the 1847 letter describes the findspot as 'found at Kirkleavington near Yarm in the sill of a brook' in the North Riding of Yorkshire.





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  • The Roxwell Medieval Gold Signet Ring of Kings Serjeant William Skrene
    Lot 0392
    'The Roxwell' Medieval Gold Signet Ring of 'King's Serjeant William Skrene'

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400

    Gold hoop and discoid bezel with incuse ropework border; incuse image of a bird of prey perching with wings spread and head turned; blackletter incuse and reversed inscription in an arc above the bird's head and pinions '·al : for : ye : best ·' (all for the best); repair to hoop.





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  • Medieval Silver Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland Royal Hawking Vervel
    Lot 0393
    Medieval Silver 'Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Rutland' Royal Hawking Vervel

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,750

    Or a leg ring inscribed '+Earle of Rutland' in derivative black letter script, for a female merlin or sparrow hawk (due to the youth of Edmund Plantagenet who died aged 17); the ring with a convex interior face.





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  • Post Medieval Gold Memento Mori Ring with Inscribed Posy In God Alone Wee Two Are One
    Lot 0399
    Post Medieval Gold Memento Mori Ring with Inscribed Posy 'In God Alone Wee Two Are One'

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680

    Displaying large flower heads, foliage and a skull to the outer face, enhanced with black enamelling; interior inscribed in a cursive script 'In god alone wee two are one', together with possible maker's stamps 'D' and 'F' in two rectangular cartouches.





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  • Heavy Post Medieval Gold Love Is The Bond Of Pease Posy Ring
    Lot 0404
    Heavy Post Medieval Gold 'Love Is The Bond Of Pease' Posy Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860

    Composed of a gently carinated hoop, the interior inscribed in cursive script 'Love is the bond of pease'.





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  • Post Medieval Gold Live Life to the Full Decorated Posy Ring
    Lot 0412
    Post Medieval Gold 'Live Life to the Full' Decorated Posy Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380

    Composed of a decoratively notched hoop divided into chased rhomboidal panels displaying foliate tendrils and horizontal hatching alternately; the interior inscribed in Roman capitals with the Latin phrase: 'x x x x VIVE x VT x VIVAS'.





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  • English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]
    Lot 2590
    English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700

    Set comprising gold five pounds, two pounds, sovereign and half sovereign. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX F D IND IMP legends. Revs: St George and dragon; date in exergue; with original Royal Mint hinged red leatherette case of issue.





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