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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Eastern Roman Bust of the Daughter of Aqima")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
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.jpg "Massive Stone Age British Bifacial Lanceolate Flint Handaxe")
.jpg "Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Three-Dimensional Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount")
Standing on an integral decorated plinth base and holding two lotus flowers wrapped around her shoulders and wrist; her slender body clad in a long paridhana gathered at the waist with a sash, her upper torso adorned with necklaces and her arms with armlets and bracelets; wearing a tiered feather and flower crown. 1.2 kg, 28 cm high
Ex private Surrey collection.
From the collection of a Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
See Ahuja, N.P., Arts and Archaeology of Ancient India. Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, Oxford, 2018, p.192-3.
Ex private Surrey collection.
From the collection of a Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
See Ahuja, N.P., Arts and Archaeology of Ancient India. Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, Oxford, 2018, p.192-3.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising four arrowheads: two triangular barbed arrowheads with short rounded tangs; one leaf-shaped with notched edges; one with a diagonal tang, possibly unfinished. 17.4 grams total, 26-44 mm
Property of a UK gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
Property of a UK gentleman, acquired in the 1970s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Mask of a dignitary or warrior with D-shaped face, applied hair and headdress with applied bitumen; secured with a bow on the brow; partly glazed and hollow to the reverse; a fragment from a larger figure. 474 grams, 11.8 cm wide
From a Norfolk, UK, collection, 1990s.
For a range of similar Veracruz figures of the classic period see Favaro, A., The World That Wasn't There, 5 Continents Editions, 2019.
From a Norfolk, UK, collection, 1990s.
For a range of similar Veracruz figures of the classic period see Favaro, A., The World That Wasn't There, 5 Continents Editions, 2019.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Group comprising: shallow bowl with two handles, carved from a single block of wood; and a carved stone female head; accompanied by a wooden implement with rounded knop finial stamped SOUVENIR OF WATERLOO. 4.64 kg total, 15 - 50 cm
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising: one with a hinged D-section body and decorated clubbed terminals; the other with a round-section body and large, hoof-shaped terminals. 217 grams total, 59-67 mm
Acquired from Morphets Auctions, Yorkshire, 2009.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
Acquired from Morphets Auctions, Yorkshire, 2009.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
Group of three carved sculptures comprising: family group with two grand parents, two parents and a child; mother seated braiding her daughter's hair; standing female with bands of scarification to the waist and hip. 1.42 kg total, 18-34 cm
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Restrung; composed of cream, beige and umber-coloured ribbed terracotta beads with some cylindrical beads. 60 grams total, 64-76 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
A carved hardwood war club with smoothed and waxed surface; the end of the handle with chip-carved grip pattern, sturdy shaft and ribbed head formed from the root-ball of the tree from which it was carved; some iron nails or studs driven into the grip. 2.3 kg, 114.5 cm
Acquired in Wales, UK, in the 1990s.
Acquired in Wales, UK, in the 1990s.
All restrung; comprising multiple strands of beads of varying lengths, each composed of beige, cream and umber-coloured beads of mainly rondelle and tubular types. 88 grams total, 60-364 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: one large with keeled body and incised decoration to the terminals; the other with a hinged round-section body and clubbed terminals. 981 grams total, 58-91 mm wide
Acquired from Morthets Auctions, Yorkshire, 2009.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
Acquired from Morthets Auctions, Yorkshire, 2009.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
Mixed group including openwork types, glass and shell cabochons, glass insert with incuse profile bust and other types. 245 grams total, 25-34 mm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Two wooden boomerangs, asymmetrical in form and with a flat underside, one carved with diagonally banded hatching and the other with longitudinal ridges; each with one narrow end and one curved and broader with a rounded tip. 791 grams total, 76-78 cm
From an old private collection.
Acquired from Newark antiques market.
See Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, A., The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays, Oxford, 1906, plate XV, item 16, for type.
From an old private collection.
Acquired from Newark antiques market.
See Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, A., The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays, Oxford, 1906, plate XV, item 16, for type.
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