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 various coloured glazed and featuring floral and vegetal motifs, figural scenes, animals and landscape/seascape compositions. 5.33 kg total, 13 x 13 - 13.5 x 13.5 cm



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

Including a carnelian anthropomorphic bead, carved elephant, bone female head and other items. 75 grams total, 26-50 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.

Ellipsoid panel with nude female supporting an inverted dog over a libation bowl, frond above; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.47 grams, 25 mm



Private collection, England.

With intaglio Jupiter seated on a chair, eagle at his feet and thunderbolt in his raised hand; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.22 grams, 13 mm



Private collection, England.

Including two-pronged table forks and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 236 grams total, 9.3-18.5 cm



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

Comprising a large side-axe with wide chin; a substantial felling axe with punched maker's mark 'K' to one face. 1.98 kg total, 16.5-20.5 cm



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

Including fluted dome, hollow, two-piece, openwork disc and other types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series as well as Buttons & Fasteners 500BC-1840AD. 125 grams total, 10-26 mm



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

Including a pastoral scene with lovers in a bower and onlooker in the bushes, a tavern scene with drinkers leaning against a bar, and other items. 246 grams total, 6.8-10 cm



From the family collection of a Maida Vale lady, UK.

Comprising a small group of red carnelian beads of various form and size, including a two-hole bracelet panel; each pierced for stringing. 113 grams total, 10-31 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Graduated group of beads, mainly tubular and tabular types with chamfered profile. 38 grams, 27 cm



London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s

Comprising a right hand gripping a cobble, and a right hand enclosing the neck of a serpent. 634 grams total, 9.4-11.4 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 broad discus, scallop nozzle, low-relief wading bird image; after the antique. 56 grams, 89 mm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.