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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
.jpg "Hellenistic Gold Earrings with Lapis and Mother of Pearl")
.jpg "Hellenistic Terracotta Head of a Youth")
.jpg "Neo-Assyrian Bronze Horse Trapping with Eagle-Headed God Nisroch and Winged Supernatural Figures")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
.jpg "Bronze Age Gold Torc-Shaped Bracelet")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Each displaying a zoomorphic and foliate design, most embellished with gilding or enamel. 25.4 grams total, 23-40 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Composed of a slender round-section frame with free-running tongue, decorated with punched annulets to both sides of the neck. 0.92 grams, 18 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Yapham, East Yorkshire, UK, in 24th July 2016 by Mr David Brooks.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-9A109A.
Declared and disclaimed as Treasure with reference no.2016 T562.
Accompanied by a copy of the Report for HM Coroner with reference no.2016 T562.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Yapham, East Yorkshire, UK, in 24th July 2016 by Mr David Brooks.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-9A109A.
Declared and disclaimed as Treasure with reference no.2016 T562.
Accompanied by a copy of the Report for HM Coroner with reference no.2016 T562.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Rectangular, with lead came frame and later suspension loop to each corner; painted scene depicting a bishop wearing his mitre and chasuble and holding his crozier standing among a group of disputants in a gallery with reliquary caskets above. 436 grams, 26 x 19.5 cm
These panels come from a Parisian flat in the 7th arrondissement, very close to the Rodin Museum.
The family owning the panels lived in the flat for several generations.
Ex central London gallery.
These panels come from a Parisian flat in the 7th arrondissement, very close to the Rodin Museum.
The family owning the panels lived in the flat for several generations.
Ex central London gallery.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
All with a clear or occluded suspension loop; most displaying a floral or other openwork design. 42.2 grams total, 23-40 mm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Discoid in form with suspension loop to apex, raised head of Saint John the Baptist at centre, framed with pellet-in-ring motifs. 3.32 grams, 24 mm
Found Hampshire, UK.
Found Hampshire, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
The slender, convex hoop supporting an oval-shaped bezel, engraved with a dragon trotting left within a zigzag border. 2.81 grams, 22.82 mm overall, 19.16 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Composed from six rectangular glass panels with painted geometric and architectural imagery, later suspension loops to the upper corners. 1.4 kg, 37 x 35 cm
UK trade, 2018.
Ex central London gallery.
UK trade, 2018.
Ex central London gallery.
Composed of a range of mainly glazed vessels, including tripod pots, a stoneware jars and a footed pouring bowl; most with chips and cracks. 3.25 kg total, 10-21 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of vessels Hall, D., ‘Medieval pottery from the Overgate, Dundee and three vessels from the wall of a building on the Nethergate, Dundee,’ in Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal Volume 9, 2003, pp.88-95, fig.1, nos.1-3.
Ceramics from Dundee, Scotland, confirm that the most common vessel type represented was the tripod pipkin, with globular body, rounded base, three legs and a single handle.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of vessels Hall, D., ‘Medieval pottery from the Overgate, Dundee and three vessels from the wall of a building on the Nethergate, Dundee,’ in Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal Volume 9, 2003, pp.88-95, fig.1, nos.1-3.
Ceramics from Dundee, Scotland, confirm that the most common vessel type represented was the tripod pipkin, with globular body, rounded base, three legs and a single handle.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Weights of various sizes of mainly square, rectangular and cuboid form. 1.16 kg total, 12-47 mm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
The creature with the head of a cat, breast and wings of a bird and lion's paw base; bracket to reverse. 18 grams, 36 mm
Found Nottinghamshire, UK.
Found Nottinghamshire, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £49
Rectangular bodied with raised central panel and knops to the perimeter, shell to top centre; hook and rectangular loop to reverse. 3.6 grams, 23 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £299
All complete or very near complete and of different types and sizes, including examples with simple geometric ornament. 290 grams total, 3-16.5 cm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
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