Restrung designer necklace with oblate, tubular and other beads, with an Indian furnace-wound swirled bead at the centre. 17.6 grams, 42 cm

Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.

Lamp-work glass miniature ewer with applied strap handle. 4.19 grams, 29 mm

Acquired from Red House Antiques, York, UK, 2008.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.

Including a facetted finger ring with punched detailing, a bezel with inset glass stud and other items. 23.5 grams total, 15-22 mm

Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Comprising six albums: a photo album with pictures from Calleva Atrebatum, Roman Silchester in Hampshire, England, showing categorised images of artefacts and displays from Reading museum with handwritten information labels, including mosaics, jewellery, beads, pottery, tiles and other artefacts; a photo album with images from Tullie House Museum showing pictures of oil lamps, oil lamps, pottery, some with handwritten information labels, also containing images from Colchester Castle Museum comprising images of pottery, Samian ware moulds, and other artefacts, and images from Wroxeter Roman city, pictures of six stones from the Roman camp at Old Penrith, pictures from Newcastle Museum, and from Great Witcombe villa in Gloucestershire; an album with postcards and printed information cards from Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort south of Hadrian's Wall showing life and costumes during Roman occupation; another album with photographs from Corbridge, a Roman town south of Hadrian's Wall, pictures taken at Aldborough Roman town, and pictures from Yorkshire Museum in York; an album containing black-and-white images of mainly Roman and Byzantine coins; a scrap book with labelled pictures and postcards from Chedworth Roman Villa, Chesters Roman Fort in Northumberland, Housesteads Roman Fort, antiquities in Chesters Museum, Hadrian's Wall area, Aesica (Great Chesters), Vindolanda, and miscellaneous pictures of historic places and artefacts. 12.9 kg total, 26.5 x 28.5 - 33.5 x 29 cm

From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK.
He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.

Each with one pointed and one chiselled finial. 17.4 grams total, 14.5 - 14.8 cm

Found City of London, UK.
Acquired from mudlark Steve Brooker in the early 2000s.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

Matched pair each formed from two twisted rods, with snake-head detailing to the finials. 123 grams total, 71-74 mm

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.

Standing nude with winged petasos to the head, in contrapposto pose; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 66 grams total, 85 mm including stand

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.

Cf. Boucher, S. & Tassinari, S., Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine a Lyon: Bronzes Antiques I. Inscriptions, Statuaire, Vaisselle, Lyon, 1976, item 49, for type.

Mercury was the god of trade and industry, whose principle shrine in the city of Rome was at the Circus Maximus. Equated with the Greek Hermes he became the god of tradesmen and merchants. He was also the god of thieves and was associated with healing, mainly in Gaul, where he had a number of important temples connected to sacred springs, This statuette was probably a votive offering to one of this temples.

Including enamelled quatrefoil and lobed hexafoil designs, one with peripheral lugs and sprung pin to reverse. 13.9 grams total, 20-26 mm

Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Fusiform in profile with broad carinated mouth, slightly flared base. 1 kg, 19.5 cm

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

With integral loop and four spurs to the lower edge. 136 grams, 81 mm

Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Comprising a round-section shank with bulb finial, balustered neck, flat chisel-blade with barbs to the rear. 11 grams, 17.6 cm

From the Garcia collection, France, 1990s.

With narrow D-section shank and lobe terminals with punched snake-head detailing. 6.84 grams, 50 mm

Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 161, for similar.