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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): £910
Hexagonal in plan with epigraphic and figural panels: memorial cross with serpent; 'hodie mihi' and 'cras tibi' (my [fate] today [shall be] yours tomorrow); mane-in-fede clasped hands; angel with sword; skull and crossed bones among foliage. 12.5 grams, 23.13 mm overall, 19.30 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S, USA 9, Europe 20, Japan 19)
Ex Sussex, UK, private collection.
Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
Ex Sussex, UK, private collection.
Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
D-section hoop with conical underside, trumpet-shaped rectangular plaque with cross and censer motif. 6.43 grams, 26.59 mm overall, 19.06 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S, USA 9, Europe 20, 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): £260
Complete with mouthpiece and sounding hole. 43 grams, 54 mm
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
Cf. British Museum, 1856,0701.1584; Hayfield, C. and Hurst, J.G., Pottery fool's head whistles from London and Tattershall, Lincs, in Antiquaries Journal 63 (1983), 380-3; and Jones, M., The Secret Middle Ages, Stroud, 2002, 109 and fig.6.5.
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
Cf. British Museum, 1856,0701.1584; Hayfield, C. and Hurst, J.G., Pottery fool's head whistles from London and Tattershall, Lincs, in Antiquaries Journal 63 (1983), 380-3; and Jones, M., The Secret Middle Ages, Stroud, 2002, 109 and fig.6.5.
Striding and wearing a headdress of a lotus flower and plumes and a kilt; mounted on a custom-made stand; after the antique. 311 grams total, 21 cm high including stand
British collection formed in the 1980s.
Ex property of a London gallery.
Private collection of Mr T.H., Norfolk, UK.
British collection formed in the 1980s.
Ex property of a London gallery.
Private collection of Mr T.H., Norfolk, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: an oblate glass bead with hexafoil and loop, and a bronze pyramidal dangle. 1.64 grams total, 10-11 mm
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.
Composed of graduated facetted blue beads interspersed with opaque seed beads. 10 grams, 88 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
A reproduction with border of roundels and pelletted chevrons, tondo with Chi Rho christogram between roundels; edge repaired. 44 grams, 69 mm
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
Cf. for a similar original Chi Rho on a lamp of 5th-6th century A.D. in Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 344.
The monogram depicted on the roundel is bearing the Greek letters X and P, i.e. the initials of Christ. This Chrismon was widely used in the Roman world after Constantine the Great. Roundels with the Chi Rho monogram, widely spread from Constantine I onwards, would have been in use especially among ecclesiastic hierarchy as a distinctive token of their status.
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
Cf. for a similar original Chi Rho on a lamp of 5th-6th century A.D. in Wamser, L., Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas Östliches Erbe, München, 2004, item 344.
The monogram depicted on the roundel is bearing the Greek letters X and P, i.e. the initials of Christ. This Chrismon was widely used in the Roman world after Constantine the Great. Roundels with the Chi Rho monogram, widely spread from Constantine I onwards, would have been in use especially among ecclesiastic hierarchy as a distinctive token of their status.
With a heart-shaped body decorated with a scrolling vegetal border, integral loop with ring, hooked bar to the opposite end. 3.58 grams, 52 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
.jpg "Post Medieval Lock and Other Mechanism Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Including a pair of brass drop-handles, a mechanical bell and a multiple lock. 2.2 kg total, 16-26 cmFair condition.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a European gentleman living in London.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a European gentleman living in London.
Comprising a gold pin with facetted blue gem in a loose loop and a conical cell with granules around a cell with facetted red glass stud; offered with another gilt example of three staggered bars and scrolls with facetted red glass gem. 6.05 grams total, 45-67 mm
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Acquired London, UK.
Property of a Harwich gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Hoop with winged angels forming the shoulders above a cross to one face and pierced heart to the other; bezel with inset pyramidal amethyst; underside inscribed 'amavye' (for my life). 8.67 grams, 26.82 mm overall, 18.35 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49 , Japan 16)
Ex Sussex, UK, private collection.
Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
Ex Sussex, UK, private collection.
Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
A hollow-formed decorative bust of a princess, based on portrait head of one of the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti from Tell el-Amarna and now in Neues Museum, Berlin; mounted on a wooden base with inset authentication seal verso and inscribed number '544'; after the antique. 1.19 kg total, 25 cm high including stand
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.
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