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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
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.jpg "Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis")
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
.jpg "Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds")
.jpg "Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a broad hoop with pad to the underside, hexagonal bezel with lateral notched flange, incised geometric pattern. 6.23 grams, 22.31 mm overall, 16.30 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K 1/2, USA 5 1/2, Europe 10.58, Japan 10)
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 610, for type.
The pattern has the appearance of a highly ornate capital 'B' in a frame.
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 610, for type.
The pattern has the appearance of a highly ornate capital 'B' in a frame.
Including types with a spur at the heel, segmented band beneath the rim, high-relief loops and tendrils, foliage detailing and other types. 895 grams total, 2.5-17 cm
Found on various UK sites since 1974.
Property of an Essex collector.
Found on various UK sites since 1974.
Property of an Essex collector.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
Collection of clay pipes mounted and labelled from 1580 through to 1930, with smokers' accessories (pipe tampers) in a glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 3 kg total, 49 x 34 x 5 cm including case
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
Bailey, G., Detector Finds, Witham, 1999, p.60-63 (item 20, hand holding a scroll).
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
Bailey, G., Detector Finds, Witham, 1999, p.60-63 (item 20, hand holding a scroll).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Including a crotal bell, thimble, hooked tag, double-loop belt buckle and other items. 190 grams total, 1.6-11.7 cm
Found various site in the UK.
Ex N. Mills.
Found various site in the UK.
Ex N. Mills.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Slightly domed profile, central floral motif with radiating foliate scrolls, six acorns to the outer edge. 26.9 grams, 48 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Ex German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Including a large iron door-key with kidney-shaped bow, a barrel-shank key and small casket keys. 115 grams total, 3.3-15 cm
Found various sites in the UK.
Ex N.Mills.
Found various sites in the UK.
Ex N.Mills.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £244
Decorated with circumferential bands of lozenges, floral vines, calligraphic text, animals processing right amid flowers, second band of floral vines and panel of text to base. 140 grams, 12.2 cm wideFine condition.
Acquired on the UK art market, 2000s.
Property of a Suffolk gentleman.
Acquired on the UK art market, 2000s.
Property of a Suffolk gentleman.
Obverse with a prancing horse in a landscape, reverse with three columns of text. 35 grams, 59 x 39 mm
Ex Paris gallery, 1980-1990.
From a Parisian collection.
Ex Paris gallery, 1980-1990.
From a Parisian collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Displaying different colour glazes and designs including animals, figural vignettes and landscape scenes featuring buildings and sailing vessels. 3.4 kg total, 13 x 13 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
With domed obverse face and intaglio opposed busts of a man with beard and cap, woman with braided hair; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 2.21 grams, 18 mm
Private collection, England.
Private collection, England.
With discoid bezel, ropework border, central square with crescent motifs, surrounding fronds in imitation of heraldic design. 4.63 grams, 23.47 mm overall, 20.05 mm internal diameter (approximate size British U 1/2, USA 10 1/4, Europe 23.15, Japan 22)
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Restrung group of beads, mainly annular and biconical types with cruciform tabular type. 28.9 grams, 42.5 cm
London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s
London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s
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