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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.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")
Composed of graduated coin-shaped beads, with hook-and-eye clasp. 85 grams total, 43 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Restrung; composed primarily from ancient glass fragments. 120 grams total, 66 cm long each
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Hellenistic Style Female Marble Head")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
Modelled in the round with heavy brow extending to a slightly aquiline nose, deep-set lentoid eyes above high cheekbones, a small mouth with lips slightly parted; the hair combed radially and the outer band parted centrally and gathered at the nape of the neck in a chignon; mounted on a custom-made stand. 32.3 kg total, 49 cm high including stand
Acquired prior to 1952.
Hauser family collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
French collection Madam X, acquired from the above 1984.
UK private collection, 1997.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11984-206396.
Some details of the execution of the bust recall Hellenistic forms in Roman art, such as the marble head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.23.160.5.
Acquired prior to 1952.
Hauser family collection, Zurich, Switzerland.
French collection Madam X, acquired from the above 1984.
UK private collection, 1997.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11984-206396.
Some details of the execution of the bust recall Hellenistic forms in Roman art, such as the marble head in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.23.160.5.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Mixed vessel fragment group including three bellarmines with 'Bartmann' motif. 611 grams total, 6-12 cm
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa mid 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £377
With D-section lid and four stub feet, painted panels of rosettes and foliage in red and green with liquide gold detailing; upper edge of base with legend 'SIrVOAMI / SENOr[A] DOrA NICOLA / SADERO[B]AS'. 336 grams, 83 mm wide
From a Blackheath, London, UK, deceased estate.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
The text reads in part as a personal name 'Senora Dora Nicola ... de Robas', Spanish or Catalan.
From a Blackheath, London, UK, deceased estate.
Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.
The text reads in part as a personal name 'Senora Dora Nicola ... de Robas', Spanish or Catalan.
Modelled in Roman style, depicting the head of a Nubian youth on a triangular base, the neck extending to a slender round nozzle; the filling hole formed as a flower emerging from the forehead, a tongue-shaped reflector behind with a looped handle underneath. 632 grams, 14 cm wide
From a family collection formed in the 1970s-1980s.
From the Inglismaldie Castle estate, Angus, Scotland, by descent to the current owner.
From a family collection formed in the 1970s-1980s.
From the Inglismaldie Castle estate, Angus, Scotland, by descent to the current owner.
A hollow-formed decorative composition figurine based on the figure of Sobekhotep V in the Neues Museum, Berlin under accession no. ÄM 10645; with museum stamp inside the base; after the antique. 3.8 kg, 46.3 cm high
From a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.
From a French collection, Paris.
Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.
Squat lamp with broad discus, D-shaped nozzle and stub handle to the rear; tondo with low-relief erotic scene, maker's name 'ATHEI' to the underside. 131 grams, 12 cm
From the collection of an London antiquarian.
From the collection of an London antiquarian.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.2 kg total, 9.5 x 10 - 9.8 x 10 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Sheet-bronze, stamped with bust of Daniel O'Connell with surrounding legend: 'D OCONNELL ESQ / REM[BR] 30 MAY 1844'. 0.58 grams, 20 mm
Found near Wigan, Lancashire, UK, circa 2006.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
O'Connell campaigned for the rights of Irish Catholics and for Irish independence from the United Kingdom. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy early in 1844 but this was reversed by the House of Lords later the same year.
Found near Wigan, Lancashire, UK, circa 2006.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
O'Connell campaigned for the rights of Irish Catholics and for Irish independence from the United Kingdom. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy early in 1844 but this was reversed by the House of Lords later the same year.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Restrung necklace of annular beads with interstitial tabular types, the centrepiece a tabular disc pendant. 30.6 grams, 64 cm long
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
.jpg "Egyptian Style Figurine and Plaque Collection")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising three ancient Egyptian style artefacts after the antique: a copper-alloy sphinx statuette; a stone lion statuette; a cartonnage fragment with textile to the outer face and printed friezes applied to the interior. 970 grams total, 11-14.5 cm
Acquired from a private UK collection in the late 1990s.
Private collection of Mr T.H., Norfolk, UK.
Acquired from a private UK collection in the late 1990s.
Private collection of Mr T.H., Norfolk, UK.
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