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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Neo-Assyrian Bronze Horse Trapping with Eagle-Headed God Nisroch and Winged Supernatural Figures")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,450
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Of various types, including examples retaining rivets and articulate tongues, with decorative designs including foliage, openwork geometric forms and pierced quatrefoils; one example with textile within the buckle plate; a fragmentary buckle head with enigmatic incised inscription. 32 grams total, 28-51 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): £46
Including various vessel elements such as lids, feet and bodies, some with decorative motifs; together with fragmentary glass vessels. 19.2 kg total including box, 69.5 x 30.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of two-handled cooking pots from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.268.
Among the interesting objects of this hoard there is a two-handled cooking pot with partial internal and external clear glaze. These late medieval potteries (circa 1490-1510) were often imported to England from the Low Countries. If in the high medieval period French potteries remained the most common Continental import, in the late Medieval Age the products of France, the Low Countries, the Rhineland and the Iberian Peninsula occurred in roughly equal proportions.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of two-handled cooking pots from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.268.
Among the interesting objects of this hoard there is a two-handled cooking pot with partial internal and external clear glaze. These late medieval potteries (circa 1490-1510) were often imported to England from the Low Countries. If in the high medieval period French potteries remained the most common Continental import, in the late Medieval Age the products of France, the Low Countries, the Rhineland and the Iberian Peninsula occurred in roughly equal proportions.
Comprising knives and knife blades, stirrups, cleavers, keys and other miscellaneous items, including some decorated examples. 16 kg total, 6-46.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Triangular bodied with decoratively notched edges, bulbs to each corner and forming central stylised floral motif, three openwork fixing circles to the side edges, integral hook with rectangular loop to lower edge. 2.9 grams, 24 mm
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Acquired on the UK market, 1990s.
Property of a retired academic.
Plain D-sectioned hoop with round raised bezel. 2.33 grams, 21.20 mm overall, 18.89 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O 1/2, USA 7 1/4, Europe 15.61, Japan 15)
Found Sedgemoor, Somerset, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme report no.SOM-01346D.
Disclaimed under the Treasure Act with Treasure reference no.2017 T506.
Found Sedgemoor, Somerset, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme report no.SOM-01346D.
Disclaimed under the Treasure Act with Treasure reference no.2017 T506.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Conjoined roundels with folded strap, Side A: three crowns flanked by initials 'D(?)A' and legend to the border 'C[..]ON{..}VYTSCO[...]'; Side B: lion rampant within a beaded border with legend '[...]VYTS * COD[...]'. 33.7 grams, 47 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Of dipyramid form, a suspension loop to the apex and bulb to the foot, the sides formed from conjoined bulbs. 32.3 grams, 42 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): £130
Displaying a repoussé design of concentric roundels with enigmatic script too centre and outer legend; pierced. 0.72 grams, 23 mm
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
Each of a different type, including examples decorated with ring-and-dot ornament, foliate designs, geometric motifs, together with bifacial examples, notable one inscribed 'DEVM' 'ICOL[ ]'? 41.8 grams total, 35-57 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): £78
With slender round-section hoop supporting a discoid bezel with incuse stylised fleur-de-lys. 2.02 grams, 21.27mm overall, 18.62mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)
English collection, 1980s.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Ex property of an Essex gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 641.
English collection, 1980s.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Ex property of an Essex gentleman.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 641.
Including glazed vessels of various types: tripod pots, dishes, platters, together with a decorated fragment; chipped and cracked. 4.15 kg total, 14.5-33.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of redware tripods from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.28.
The majority of ceramics here presented are kitchen wares. Usually cooking pots are the most numerous forms in the majority of medieval contexts. They are mostly related to domestic functions, cooking pots being used to boil food or fry it. They come in different sizes and have globular bodies, everted rims and one or two handles. Ceramics from Dundee, Scotland, and Southampton, confirm that one of the most common vessel types employed among 1490-1510 A.D. was the tripod pipkin, with globular body, rounded base, three legs and a single or double handle, like the specimen here visible. These specimens were very often redware pottery imported from the Low Countries.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Cf. for similar examples of redware tripods from Low Countries Brown, D., H., Pottery in Medieval Southampton, c.1066-1510, Southampton, 2002, fig.28.
The majority of ceramics here presented are kitchen wares. Usually cooking pots are the most numerous forms in the majority of medieval contexts. They are mostly related to domestic functions, cooking pots being used to boil food or fry it. They come in different sizes and have globular bodies, everted rims and one or two handles. Ceramics from Dundee, Scotland, and Southampton, confirm that one of the most common vessel types employed among 1490-1510 A.D. was the tripod pipkin, with globular body, rounded base, three legs and a single or double handle, like the specimen here visible. These specimens were very often redware pottery imported from the Low Countries.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Most glazed and from various vessel types, including examples with decoration. 17.9 kg total, 1.5-27 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
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