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'.

With knop finial, pierced disc and floral detailing. 4.03 grams, 77 mm



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

With D-section hoop, keeled shoulders supporting an ellipsoid bezel with a flower motif. 5.79 grams, 23.77 mm overall, 20.54 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)



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

Comprising two tile designs in relief: three horses in an enclosure; two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.29 kg total, 9.9 x 9.1 - 10.2 x 9.3 cm



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

The tile production increased in the second half of the 16th century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.

Composed of graduated facetted blue beads, interspersed with umber-coloured seed beads. 8.72 grams, 66 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

With a keeled hoop, oval bezel with intaglio motif of a crowned R, wreath below. 2.74 grams, 21.48 mm overall, 19.08 mm internal diameter (approximate size British S 1/2, USA 9 1/4, Europe 20.63, Japan 19)



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

Including bulb-type, regimental badge, heraldic achievement and other types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 227 grams total, 12-29 mm



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

Lustrous cameo with profile female bust in classical palla and with stephane to the hair; set in a gilt frame with securing pin to reverse. 11.2 grams, 42 mm



Private collection, England.

Finger ring with gold core and median iron band inscribed 'Gold gab ich für Eisen 1914. Oe.S.K.'. 4.67 grams, 20.20 mm overall, 17.12 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Graduated group of beads, mainly polyhedral and annular types. 42 grams, 42.5 cm



London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s

Ellipsoid plaque with chamfered edge; intaglio profile bust of Minerva in Corinthian-style helmet with hippocamp motif to the bowl; small arrow placed at her shoulder. 3.03 grams, 28 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Including stamped trade weights with denomination (and date '1826' on one); discoid token types; bell-shaped suspension types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 392 grams total, 14-46 mm



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

Composed of graduated facetted blue beads interspersed with opaque seed beads. 9.1 grams, 69 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.