Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

With lentoid section and curved back and ribbed cutting edge; rounded recess close to the back to accept the thumb. 47 grams, 10.1 cm



Found Denmark. Ex Sherman collection. From the Britton collection, USA. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Each with carefully knapped cutting; three discoid and one lozengiform. 107 grams total, 51-55 mm



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.

Broad scraper with cortex to one face, old inked legend 'WANEL' to flat area. 305 grams, 14.2 cm



Found Wanel, France. Ex old French collection. Acquired prior to 2000. From a private Norfolk, UK, collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Comprising three flakes: a small triangular arrowhead, a lanceolate blade and a piriform blade; small worked piriform handaxe with indistinct inked inscription to the base 'Langdon's C[...]' (perhaps Langdon's Cliff, Dover, Kent). 210 grams total, 4.8-11 cm



From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021.

Columnar in section with domed butt, narrow straight edge. 1.271 kg, 22 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.

Finely polished long axehead with narrow edge and hammer face to rear. 288 grams, 13.6 cm



Found Lake Constance. From a collection acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

Squat dish with three stub feet, handle formed as a canine head and neck. 495 grams, 16 cm wide



From Air Mountain, Niger, Sahara. 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.

Of flattened form with some cortex showing on the edges; with an old inked inscription: '1649 Twydall'. 362 grams, 12.2 cm



Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.

With rounded cutting edge, lentoid cross-section and domed butt. 891 grams, 25 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.

With a typical brownish patina. 781 grams, 15.5 cm



Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, German, collection.

Elongated lentoid-section flint core axe with old 'SOUTH DOWNS' legend. 95 grams, 11.1 cm



Found South Downs, UK. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Substantial core from which flakes have been struck; triangular in section with broad point in relation to the butt; with inked inscription to one side: 'NILE'. 2.170 kg, 26 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.