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'.

Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.3 kg total, 10 x 9 - 10.5 x 9.5 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

The tile production increases in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.

Collection of barrel locks, taps and spiles in brass and other metals, mounted and labelled in a felt-lined glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 5.4 kg total, 50.7 x 35.5 x 7.2 cm including case



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

Including a standing nude female with her hands placed beneath her breasts, a standing male with pinched facial features and impressed eyes and other types; after the antique. 330 grams total, 9.8-15.7 cm



London art market, 1990s.

Comprising glazes of various colours and including figural, landscape, floral and vegetal designs. 4.5 kg total, 12 x 13 - 13 x 13 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

Substantial hoop with segmented profile, low-relief inscription 'MORTI NATUS EST' to the underside, flowers in the following open field, ellipsoid plaques to the shoulders with facing skull motifs, owl with spread wings on the bezel. 7.28 grams, 23.96 mm overall, 20.39 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)



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

The ring belongs to the memento mori (remember you shall die) ring type. Upon the bezel is engraved an owl, an animal symbol for the Other World. The inscription Morti Natus Est, means 'born to die' a reminder of fragility of life.

Composed mainly of blue and white glazed tiles displaying erotes, buildings, landscapes, figural vignettes and polychrome floral motifs. 2.9 kg total, 13 x 13 cm each



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

With incised voided cross to the outer face, inside a painted diptych of St George on horseback overcoming a dragon, and Mary Theotokos with the infant Jesus. 77 grams, 17.2 cm wide



Private collection, Switzerland, 2009. Ex central London gallery.

Plaque with floral design comprising inset glass cabochons, synthetic rubies and gold-coloured wire detailing. 68 grams, pendant height: 79 mm



Property of a South West London gentleman.

Graduated group of beads with unusual grooved types. 33 grams, 44.5 cm



London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s

Obverse with high-relief scene of a crane and a running dog, reverse with recessed panel and four columns of reserved text. 46 grams, 59 x 39 mm



Ex Paris gallery, 1980-1990. From a Parisian collection.

Mixed large group including horseshoes, furniture fittings, decorative mounts and other items. 2.21 kg total, 46-230mm



Found Hertfordshire, UK.

Mixed group including domed, milled and other types. 129 grams total, 13-25 mm



Found Hertfordshire, UK.