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'.

Formed as two circular coils connected to a stepped median section. 31.6 grams, 11.3 cm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Comprising a domed central plaque with six radiating petals, loop to the reverse. 7.5 grams, 36 mm



Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s.

Round-section penannular bar with clubbed ends. 11.5 grams, 31 mm



Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s.

Discoid plaque with eccentrically placed circular void, ribbed neck and loop. 11.1 grams, 72 mm



From a 1990s German collection. Ex London, UK, gallery.

With broad tapering body and flared blade; part of socket absent. 66 grams, 67 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Lentoid in section with squared finials. 64 grams total, 68 mm



Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.

Each of domed profile with six piercings to the outer edge, loop to the reverse. 17.6 grams total, 31-33 mm



Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s.

With a curving single-edged blade and strap to the rear edge, stem with a rectangular projection above for attachment to a wooden handle. 133 grams, 21.1 cm



From the private collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK, 1990s.

Comprising three conical-shaped pendants with ribbed loops. 24.3 grams total, 36-38 mm



Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s.

Including a sickle with swept cutting edge and other items. 124 grams total, 6.2-15.5 cm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Rectangular worked stone block with one irregular edge; the thicker, dressed edge with a group of five drilled holes, possibly cup-marks, in a V-shaped formation. 65.7 kg, 65.5 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.

Cup-marks, with or without surrounding rings, are among the most enigmatic signs which can be found widely across ancient European landscapes, most often in association with running water. Circular arrangements are one notable and recurrent feature, while straight lines and parallel rows are less frequently represented. The present stone most closely resembles the kind of feature found at e.g. Østergård, Risehøj, Østermarie on the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea (Milstreu & Dodd, 2018, fig.15).

Comprising a curved plaque with tapering ends and four horizontal bands of repoussé bosses, pierced at the corners for attachment of ties or a fabric mount; two similarly fashioned penannular bracelets with attachment holes for laces or thongs. 58 grams total, 5.9-15.1 cm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.