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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
.jpg "Egyptian Relief with List of Offerings")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Eastern Roman Bust of the Daughter of Aqima")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Italic Bronze Triple-Disc Cuirass")
.jpg "Massive Stone Age British Bifacial Lanceolate Flint Handaxe")
.jpg "Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Three-Dimensional Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pierre Louÿs - Aphrodite - Union Latine Editions, Paris, 1934; card cover with transparent folded wrapper, 253 pp, erotic line drawings, French text. 849 grams, 22.5 x 17 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Herbert Hoffmann - Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections - 1971, card covers, 502 pp, colour and monochrome photographs. 1.33 kg, 23 x 18 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Pierre Louÿs - La Femme et le Pantin - Union Latine Editions, Paris, 1934; card cover with transparent folded wrapper, 253 pp, erotic line drawings, French text. 624 grams, 22.5 x 17.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Pierre Louÿs -Sanguines - Union Latine Editions, Paris, 1934; card cover with transparent folded wrapper, 248pp, erotic line drawings, French text; number 3034 in a limited series of 5000. 774 grams, 22.5 x 17 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Lady Wentworth - British Horses and Ponies - hardback with dustwrapper; Collins, London, 1947; 48 pp, 8 colour plates, 26 monochrome illustrations; wrapper rubbed and cracked. 257 grams, 23 x 16.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Beroalde de Verville - Le Moyen de Parvenir - card covers, 209 pp, erotic illustrations, French text. no.706 of a limited edition of 1500 books. 811 grams, 24.5 x 19.5 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
J.B. Harley & Yolande O'Donoghue - The Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales, Volume I - Kent, Essex, E. Sussex and Suffolk - hardback with dustwrapper, 47 maps, 40 pp text for reprint. 1.63 kg, 35 x 25.5 cm
Property of an Essex collector.
Property of an Essex collector.
Piriform body with flared and rolled rim, green glaze with circumferential band of swirls, leaf motifs to the shoulder; restored. 1.22 kg total, 24 cm high
Acquired from Ancient Art, London, UK, in 2011.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Acquired from Ancient Art, London, UK, in 2011.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Modelled in the round, the animal posed standing on a rectangular base, its stocky neck arched and head held facing down, tail resting between hindlegs, with painted detailing to the head, mane and harness and wearing a saddle cloth and saddle; the rider wearing a full-length robe, arms and hands relaxed by the sides, poised to grip the horse's reins near to the saddle, facial detailing and hair tied in a top knot. 1.67 kg, 32 cm high
Acquired on the UK art market, circa 2001.
UK private collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 13.220.69 and 51.93a, b, for similar examples dating to the Tang Dynasty.
Acquired on the UK art market, circa 2001.
UK private collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 13.220.69 and 51.93a, b, for similar examples dating to the Tang Dynasty.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Carved in the round gesso-covered wooden figure of Zao Jun seated on a dais wearing floor-length flounced robes and a scholar's cap; his hands inside his voluminous sleeves slotted to accept an offering tray or bowl. 1.02 kg, 28 cm high
Ex North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
Ex North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
.jpg "Chinese Song Temple Tile with Dragon")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Rectangular with ornate recessed scene depicting four children at play around a processional dragon carried by two others. 3.46 kg, 29.5 x 23 cm
Ex West Country collection, UK, 1970-1990s.
Ex West Country collection, UK, 1970-1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Rectangular with crouching nude figure modelled in the half-round on a couch; had-print 'signature' to the reverse. 3.3 kg, 25.5 x 24 cm
Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.
Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.
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