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.jpg "Greek Marble Head of Dionysus")
.jpg "Roman Veined Marble Torso of an Athlete")
.jpg "Large Middle Elamite Cylinder Seal of Kidnu, Chief Overseer of King Tan-Ruhurater II")
.jpg "Mesopotamian Torch Bearer Stand with Lion Tamer")
.jpg "Roman Bronze Medical Implement with Razor")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Hexagonal-section handle with scooped blade at one end, lentoid-section probe at the other. 11.7 grams, 14.1 cm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Comprising a thick, elongated body with lateral testes, large suspension loop above. 12.2 grams, 33 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Including hooked tags, cloth seals, keys, a spur rowel, milled coins, mounts and other items. 854 grams total, 9-67 mm
Found Suffolk, UK.
Found Suffolk, UK.
Including fusiform, oblate, tubular, mosaic and other types 60 grams total, 2-22 mm
Acquired from Silk Road Heritage, LLC, Virginia, USA.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
Acquired from Silk Road Heritage, LLC, Virginia, USA.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Comprising plano-convex, discoid and other types in bone and glass. 20 grams total, 17-23 mm
Found on the Thames foreshore, UK.
Acquired from Red House Antiques, York, 2009.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Found on the Thames foreshore, UK.
Acquired from Red House Antiques, York, 2009.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Piriform mount with stylised facial features, broad band of hair with incised zigzag and roundels, hollow to the reverse. 71.6 grams, 66 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Plano-convex with intaglio goatherd kneeling beside a goat on a baseline; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.4 grams, 16 mm
From the Fadel family collection, London, UK, 1970s.
From the Fadel family collection, London, UK, 1970s.
A restrung designer necklace including oblate, biconvex and other types. 22.7 grams, 41.5 cm
Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Penannular D-section in form with three raised rectangular panels, incised hatching. 16.70 grams, 52 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Second style, painted in red, blue and cream, one with leaf motifs. 622 grams total, 5.7-11.6 cm
Acquired in the 19th century.
Ex Jeger collection, Switzerland.
Cf. Hakanen, V., 'VI Wall Plaster Fragments' in Berg, R., Kuivalainen, I., Domus Pompeiana M. Lucretii, IX,3, 5.24, The inscriptions, Works of Art and Finds from the Old and New Excavations, Vantaa, 2019, pp.196-224, figs.3-4.
These small fragments, showing similarities with fragments of Pompeii, seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting, red panels profiled with black lines representing highlight and shadow. The panels were probably framed by a green fillet. A couple of fragments show two fields in alternated red and blue.
Acquired in the 19th century.
Ex Jeger collection, Switzerland.
Cf. Hakanen, V., 'VI Wall Plaster Fragments' in Berg, R., Kuivalainen, I., Domus Pompeiana M. Lucretii, IX,3, 5.24, The inscriptions, Works of Art and Finds from the Old and New Excavations, Vantaa, 2019, pp.196-224, figs.3-4.
These small fragments, showing similarities with fragments of Pompeii, seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting, red panels profiled with black lines representing highlight and shadow. The panels were probably framed by a green fillet. A couple of fragments show two fields in alternated red and blue.
With a flat-section crescentic body and applied ribbed suspension loop. 2.31 grams, 21 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
With piriform body, short neck, everted rim and strap handle, circumferential bands to the body. 10.9 grams, 42 mm
Acquired from Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2010.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Cf. Beutler, F. et al., Der Adler Roms. Carnuntum und der Armee der Cäsaren, Bad-Deutsch Altenberg, 2017, item 661, for similar type in terracotta.
The small size of this bronze container suggests that it was intended as a toilette object, or as an oil vessel for athletes, generally associated with a strigil. Its could also have been used as a balsamarium.
Acquired from Den of Antiquity, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2010.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Cf. Beutler, F. et al., Der Adler Roms. Carnuntum und der Armee der Cäsaren, Bad-Deutsch Altenberg, 2017, item 661, for similar type in terracotta.
The small size of this bronze container suggests that it was intended as a toilette object, or as an oil vessel for athletes, generally associated with a strigil. Its could also have been used as a balsamarium.
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