Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
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. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
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. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
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. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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 Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
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. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
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'.
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Stone Age Jasper Side Scraper from the Famed 'Fontmaure' Mousterian Site
Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 150,000-60,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Trapezoidal in plan with vivid purple, opaque cream and carrot-yellow colours. 89 grams, 92 mm
Found Fontmaure, France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Stone Age 'Salisbury' Flint Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 480,000-250,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Irregular worked flint with some cortex remaining, old inked legend 'SALISBURY' to the edge. 115 grams, 78 mm
Found fieldwalking near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK, by Mr P.M. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector. -
Large Stone Age Tool Group from Wellesbourne
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Group of finely worked flint tools with adhesive labels and inked collection numbers W10, 20, 21, 29, 30,32, 38, 59 and two unnumbered; all from Wellesbourbe, warwickshire, UK. 92 grams total, 22-52 mm
Found Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, UK. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. Ex amateur archaeologist. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector. -
Stone Age Teardrop-Shaped Knapped Axehead
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Flaked cobble, lozengiform in section with broad butt and rounded point. 318 grams, 12 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. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Of irregular form with some cortex; with an old inked inscription: '1408 Twydall'. 384 grams, 10.7 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. -
Stone Age Boat-Shaped Pierced Axehead and 'Orkney' Macehead
Neolithic Period, 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Substantial axehead with hammer face to rear; the macehead with old inked inscription: '84.277 / ORKNEY'. 3.65 kg total, 12.3-19.5 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. -
Stone Age Flint Arrowhead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising mainly leaf-shaped examples. 83 grams total, 23-44 mm
Ex Arthur Versage collection, Reigate, Surrey, UK. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Knife
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Triangular-section blade with two cutting edges; with an old inked inscription: '2.K.1253.A Twydall'. 54 grams, 76 mm
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. -
European Bronze Age Tinned Bronze Strap Junction
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Formed as a disc with four flat spokes radiating from a hatched hub, with ring to the underside attached by four short posts. 30.2 grams, 50 mm
From the private collection of Mr J.L., Surrey, UK. -
Bronze Age Dagger with Rivets
Mid 2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Leaf-shaped blade with two cutting edges, rounded point, two sturdy attachment rivets to the shoulder. 19.6 grams, 77 mm
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968. -
Bronze Age Coiled Bronze Bracelet
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Formed as a coiled rod with tapering ends. 83 grams, 73 mm
From a collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Bronze Age Terracotta Urn
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Squat jar with broad shoulder, rolled rim. 307 grams, 11.6 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.