Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
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. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
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. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
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. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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 Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
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. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
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'.
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Anatolian Style Terracotta Rhyton
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
With trumpet-shaped mouth and barrel-shaped body, ibex-shaped finial with coiled horns and legs folded beneath the body, spout to the chest, repaired; after the antique. 1 kg, 31 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Egyptian Style Alabaster Artefact Group
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising an alabastron with lateral handles and a wedge. 536 grams total, 7.2-14.1 cm
From an early 20th century collection, thence by descent. -
Multi-Coloured Glass Bead Necklace Collection
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Consisting of ten restrung necklaces of varying lengths, most composed of blue glass beads, including examples with polychrome decoration. 117 grams total, 51-85 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Graduated group of beads, some sodalite, mainly ribbed tubular and polyhedral types. 26.8 grams, 44.5 cm
London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s -
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Graduated group of square-section, fusiform and other beads. 33.8 grams, 42 cm
London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s -
Neoclassical Red Jasper Cameo Pair
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: mature female mask with swept hair in three-quarter view; youthful female bust in three-quarter view with hair cascading in ringlets, peplos with right shoulder exposed. 9.05 grams total, 25 mm each
Private collection, England. -
Jacobean Silvered Shoe Buckle Collection
17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Including one with large double-tongue, one with D-shaped plate for attachment to a strap, and other types. 64 grams total, 33-71 mm
From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968. -
Gold Tie Pin and Bar Collection
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Comprising: double lentoid hoop and cameo pendant with pin to reverse, stamped 'OPT 375 Δ 22'; three bars with two transverse scrolls and central glass stud, inset pearl seed-beads; bar with Chinese character, stamped 'MH' to reverse; two bars with heater shield between rosettes, central glass stud, securing chain, stamped marks to reverse; pin with looped finial and central blue glass stud; pin with domed boss finial, granulation, filigree and central facetted stud. 15.09 grams total, 40-67 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Commonwealth Vellum Document
Dated 1654 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Relating to a tenement lease relating to a messuage, cottage, and other appurtenances. 12 grams, 40 cm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Chinese Archaic Style Bronze Vessel
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
With slim, circular body resting on a rectangular foot; two ring handles with lion-head appliqués; domed lid with three suspension loops. 2.7 kg, 32.5 cm
Ex London, UK, art market, 1990s. -
Post Medieval Bronze Weight Collection
16th-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Including annular, socketed disc, disc with screw-thread and handle, and other types, most with the weight and other information stamped to one face. 527 grams total, 15-38 mm
Ex Simmons Gallery, 1990s. -
Neoclassical Red Jasper Cameo Pair
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: mature facing male mask with tousled hair and full beard; female bust in three-quarter view with crimped hair, disc brooch to right shoulder. 7.29 grams total, 21-22 mm
Private collection, England.