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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")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Hollow-formed bull modelled in the round with vent to the underside. 980 grams, 22 cm long
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
Square-section seal in dedicated wooden container with sliding lid, end-tray for pigment block; cracked. 66 grams, 80 mm
From a London collection.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
From a London collection.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With tiered piriform body, two lateral rectangular loop handles below the equator, the upper body painted with ovals filled with various geometric motifs and hatched lines within plain bands, bulb to the neck with single loop handle and neck with everted rim. 11.25 kg, 56 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Modelled as a standing horse with detachable female rider; rider with dressed hair, ample sleeves, layered robes and painted face; horse with curved neck and bowed head, ears pricked; painted face, bridle, harness and saddle blanket. 4.25 kg total, 43.5 cm high
From a Hong Kong Collection, 1990s.
Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.C124a6 from Oxford Authentication.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12098-213520.
From a Hong Kong Collection, 1990s.
Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.C124a6 from Oxford Authentication.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12098-213520.
Globular jar with large flared mouth, decorated with dense series of hatched spiral motifs. 430 grams, 14 cm wide
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
See Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
See Labbe, A., Prehistoric Thai Ceramics: Ban Chiang in Regional Cultural Perspectives, Bangkok, 2002.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,860
The horse modelled standing on a rectangular base, the rider positioned to hold the reins, wearing a hat and with a rolled blanket fastened behind him; polychrome motifs to the rider's garment and horse's saddle cloth. 3.95 kg, 44.5 cm high
Ex Cotswold, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
Accompanied by an original Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence analysis report no.C122f83.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.203480.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1991.253.7a, b, for a broadly comparable example.
Ex Cotswold, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
Accompanied by an original Oxford Authentication thermoluminescence analysis report no.C122f83.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.203480.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1991.253.7a, b, for a broadly comparable example.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Modelled standing with the hands to the chest holding a casket; on a tiered base. 298 grams, 17 cm
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
North Yorkshire, UK, collection, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
With arched recess, high-relief seated figure of Buddha with one hand raised in the gesture of reassurance. 4.16 kg, 33 cm
Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980-1990.
Ex Hong Kong collection, 1980-1990.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising: a gouge with rounded cutting edge, axehead with pierced butt and spearhead with recessed neck. 880 grams total, 11.2 - 19.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Hollow-formed figure modelled in the round of a dancer wearing a cross-over jacket with bell sleeves hanging at her sides, hair drawn back and secured in a chignon. 4.4 kg, 45 cm high
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
See Bower, V., From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M.Solomon in the Harvard Art Museum, Yale, 2002, for discussion.
From a West Country, UK, collection, formed in the 1990s.
See Bower, V., From Court to Caravan: Chinese Tomb Sculptures from the Collection of Anthony M.Solomon in the Harvard Art Museum, Yale, 2002, for discussion.
.jpg "Chinese Gilt Serpentine Dancer")
A parcel-gilt carved statuette of a female dancer in active pose, wearing a long courtly robe; head and right arm repaired. 3.3 kg, 31.5 cmFine condition, repaired.
From a central London collection formed between 1990-2000.
From a central London collection formed between 1990-2000.
Formed as a tiered cap with applied gilt plaques and vajra (thunderbolt sceptre) crest; applied repoussé frame to the open face with Buddha-figures and inset cabochon studs. 870 grams, 34 cm high
Ex North West London, UK, collection, 1990-2000.
Ex North West London, UK, collection, 1990-2000.
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