Home > Auctions > 5 - 9 March 2024: Ancient Art, Antiquities,
Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
.jpg "Attic Red-Figure Bell Krater with Drunken Male Revellers Attributed to the Kadmos Painter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
.jpg "Roman Published Terracotta Oil Lamp with Fighting Gladiators")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
.jpg "Roman Marble Head of Hercules Wearing the Nemean Lion Skin")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "The Anglesey Romano-British Marble Head of a Celtic Warrior")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Decorated He who loves from the heart, gives with a good heart Posy Boxwood Comb")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Limoges Gilt Christ Crowned on the Cross")
.jpg "Medieval Gold Heraldic Signet Ring with Goat")
With silk-covered boards, thirteen loose leaves of calligraphic script with paper interliners. 275 grams, 10.3 x 30.2 cm
Ex Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
Ex Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With celadon glaze, nursing mother shown kneeling and naked with suckling child held to the left breast, the hair drawn back into a topknot, with lentoid eyes and applied facial detailing. 245 grams, 10.5 cm high
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
Cf. an example on the Connell Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco reference 1989.34.23.
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
Cf. an example on the Connell Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco reference 1989.34.23.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £598
Each modelled in the round, standing with arms held within voluminous sleeves in front of the body, with semi-naturalistic facial features and dressed in floor-length courtly robes, one supporting a small dog and the other a broad dish; heads separately modelled; hollow-formed hexagonal-section green-glazed tiered bases. 14.5 kg total, 76-77.5 cm high
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number FE.289-2005, for a comparable figure.
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
Cf. The V&A Museum, accession number FE.289-2005, for a comparable figure.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Conical with a mottled glaze to the upper body, shallow foot. 193 grams, 12 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
UK gallery, early 2000s.
.jpg "Chinese Bronze Tomb Vessel")
A discoid miniature Tang style table with scrolled rim, five zoomorphic legs, openwork pendants, enamelled image of two fenghuang birds on a field of vegetation. 488 grams, 22cm wideFair condition.
Ex Hong Kong gallery.
From a West Country, UK, collection.
Ex Hong Kong gallery.
From a West Country, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Rectangular wall tile with recess, two figures in a domestic setting. 1.49 kg, 24 cm
Ex Cotswold collection, UK, 1990s.
Ex Cotswold collection, UK, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Two-part container with ribbed lid and sidewall, central rosette. 428 grams, 11.5 cm diamter
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
Comprising six hollow-formed figures of kneeling musicians with various percussion and other instruments. 1.4 kg total, 14.5 cm each
Ex Edmond Wong Antiques, Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, 2003.
Accompanied by the original invoice dated 10 July 2003.
Ex Edmond Wong Antiques, Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, 2003.
Accompanied by the original invoice dated 10 July 2003.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Octagonal in plan with high-relief eagle in flight holding lingzhi fungi in the beak; to the underside, the four-character seal of Emperor Taizong bearing his personal name 'Li Shimin'. 123 grams, 50 mm
Property of a Middlesex lady.
From the private collection of a Lancashire gentleman.
Taizong was the second Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, ruling from 626 to 649 AD. His reign was characterised by reform and the adoption of logical rather than superstitious reasoning. Dr Bonewitz notes: 'The seal is partially encrusted with very hard caliche (or calcrete) which takes a long period to develop, possibly over many centuries.'
Property of a Middlesex lady.
From the private collection of a Lancashire gentleman.
Taizong was the second Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, ruling from 626 to 649 AD. His reign was characterised by reform and the adoption of logical rather than superstitious reasoning. Dr Bonewitz notes: 'The seal is partially encrusted with very hard caliche (or calcrete) which takes a long period to develop, possibly over many centuries.'
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Each with dentilled rim, basal ring, central roundel with pot and flowers, surrounding panels with blossom and other motifs; bats and other motifs to the underside. 2.2 kg total, 30 cmFine condition.
Ex Italian collection; acquired 1970s.
Ex Italian collection; acquired 1970s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Modelled on a rectangular base, the horse standing in harness and with a long saddlecloth; the rider modelled seated in the saddle, arms held before the body, holding cymbals. 1.18 kg, 26 cm high
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
Rectangular reservoir with four spindle legs, conical neck and flared rim to the mouth. 213 grams, 10.5 cm
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
From the H.N. collection, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, UK, 1990s.
Page 142 of 228
1693 - 1704 of 2726 LOTS
1693 - 1704 of 2726 LOTS
