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'.

Including rosette and floral types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 407 grams total, 43-62 mm



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

Model zebu with applied black linear ornament. 350 grams, 16 cm



From the property of the late Mr SM, London, UK, 1969-1999.

Including a ceramic figurine, strap end, belt buckle, key handle, sheath chape and other items. 560 grams total, 1.3-12.3 cm



Found various site in the UK. Ex N. Mills.

Including foil dangle with repoussé fish motif, cruciform pendant and other items. 84 grams total, 20-66 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.

With discoid bezel displaying a heater shield beneath a crown, reserved against radiating lines in the field; four Hebrew characters on the shield. 10.79 grams, 25.80 mm overall, 21.11 mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/4, Europe 25.6, Japan 24)



Private collection formed since the 1940s. UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

With brass plate 'La Vie en Perspective: L'épingle qui pique' (Life in Perspective: the pin which pricks); finely modelled infant's face with open mouth and protruding tongue; lace borders to the hooded garment and ribbon tied beneath the throat; wooden frame with gilt and velvet field. 5.5 kg, 54.5 x 49 cm



Acquired on the UK art market.

With transverse bands of painted dots and lines; after the antique. 340 grams, 13.8 cm



London art market, 1990s.

Comprising: one square with nasta'liq inscription; one similar, octagonal with date; two ellipsoid with compressed text; one discoid with large lettering. 6.99 grams total, 12-15 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.

Ellipsoid in plan with domed upper section (shank absent), incuse skull in three-quarter view and over crossed long bones within a border. 1.56 grams, 12 mm



From an old jewellery collection. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

D-shaped plaque with raised rim, beaded wire collar, central cell with inset cameo depicting Hera advancing with a thyrsus in one hand and supporting goat at her side; ribbed suspension loop; after the antique. 6.14 grams, 30 mm



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

Graduated group of beads, mainly tubular, fusiform and annular types with triangular 'elbow' bead centrepiece. 39 grams, 46 cm



London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s

A mixed reproduction group comprising: cuneiform cone for Ishme-Dagan, King of Isin; large plano-convex black stone stamp seal with incuse erotic scene. 363 grams total, 48-147 mm



From a North American gallery. From the estate of Mr R.W., a private Wiltshire, UK, collector; thence by descent.