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'.

Heater-shaped plate with hook to the apex, two attachment holes, zigzag bands to the borders. 0.71 grams, 19 mm



Found whilst searching in Somerset, UK.

Featuring a chip-carved knotted scheme between scrolling flanks, dragon’s head terminal with upturned nostrils and snarling mouth revealing two rows of vicious teeth; flat back with three studs for attachment; mounted on a custom-made stand. 7 grams, 23 mm (21 grams total, 57mm including stand)

Very fine condition.

Previously in a North European collection. Ex UK collection. Nigel Mills, East London, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Animal heads of this size were often used to make mounts or small weights. They often had insertions of precious stones in the eyes and cavities, and were made of gold, silver, lead, and gilded bronze. The Norse mythological bestiary was varied, and dragon heads were common. Perhaps this head represents the world serpent, Jǫrmungandr, son of Loki and destined to die at the hands of Thor in Ragnarok, in turn killing the god with his poisonous exhalations.

Comprising a rectangular headplate flanked by lateral trapezoidal wings and with a stepped knop above, carinated bow, rectangular footplate with lateral L-shaped lappets, gusseted collar above a stylised horse-head finial with vertical posts for the pellet eyes and scrolled panels for the nostrils; lines of punched point detailing to the edges; catch to the reverse and ferrous mass at the pin-lug; repaired. 86 grams, 14 cm



Found UK. From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection. Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

With broad curved blade and short spur beneath the chin, narrow neck, deep socket with extended edge to the reverse. 603 grams, 14.5 cm



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

The axe seems to be a variation of type IV of the Kirpichnikov classification of the Eastern Rus Axes typology. These axes appeared in the 10th century, and continued in the 10th-11th century.

Of Williams's Class B Type 3 Group 1 with openwork plaque, bear-head beneath two opposed wolf-heads, angled ledge with ferrous fixing studs. 22.7 grams, 38 mm



Found Westberry, Wiltshire, UK.

Barrel-shaped in profile and C-shaped in section with parallel bands of impressed pellets and segmented lines to the outer face. 149 grams, 78 mm



Found UK. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Matched pair, each a twisted hoop with addorsed coil finials, round-section pin. 5.17 grams total, 24-25 mm



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

With hatching to the shoulders, discoid bezel with beaded wire rim, inset garnet cloison quadrants. 2.93 grams, 21.76 mm overall, 19.00 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)



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

A bow brooch of small-long type with rectangular headplate, deep carinated bow, flared footplate with ribbed collars; punched horseshoe detailing, pellets to the headplate; hinged pin and catchplate to the reverse. 11.7 grams, 53 mm



Found near Horncastle, Lincolnshire, UK. From an old English collection; acquired on the UK art market. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Pelta-shaped with scrolled avian heads (one absent), punched detailing to edges, retaining strap and hole for pin. 6.33 grams, 37 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Composed of a slightly domed openwork body, the central arms with simple incised geometric detailing and central boss, free-running attachment bars above. 15.5 grams, 89 mm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Two tongue-shaped panels forming two of the three arms of a trefoil brooch; each with a low-relief design of ring-and-dot motifs connected by straps with lateral spurs. 17.6 grams total, 37 mm each



Found Suffolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

The two panels bear the same design and clearly belong o the same brooch; the variation in their modern appearance is probably due to the soil conditions in which they were preserved.