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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 wide

Fine condition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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