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'.

Composed of graduated coin-shaped beads, with hook-and-eye clasp. 72 grams, 43 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Corpus Christi carved in the round with exaggerated head, spigots for posable arms, holes to the feet. 18 grams, 93 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.

Ellipsoid plaque with baroque-inspired putto ornament, the head modelled in the round and painted in pink and auburn tones, face tilted downwards; robe, upper body and wings modelled in high relief with left arm held straight at the side and right arm bent, hand on the chest; feather detailing to wings; pierced either side of the shoulders for suspension; knop to reverse of head and hole to void. 833 grams, 29.5 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.26 kg total, 10 x 9 - 9.5 x 10.2 in.



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

The tile production increased in the second half of the sixteenth 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.

Including barrel-lock and parts, and other items; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 256 grams total, 33-75 mm



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

Obverse with two figures in a landscape beneath a tree, reverse with four columns of text. 42 grams, 61 x 40 mm



Ex Paris gallery, 1980-1990. From a Parisian collection.

Comprising four expanding round-section arms and a broad bale. 13.2 grams, 32 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.

Mainly annular and biconical seed beads. 5.7 grams, 42 cm



London, UK, art market, 1980-2000s

With octagonal plaque and chamfered edges, incuse design including an arrow and enigmatic pseudo-text. 12.11 grams, 23.32 mm overall, 19.10 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)



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

Depicting a series of lavish tents erected in a green landscape, populated by a prince and men in attendance of a punishment, dark blue arboreal border, Indian workmanship; mounted in a reveal and a glazed wooden frame. 915 grams, 37.5 x 30 cm

Very fine condition.

Acquired on the UK art market, 1980s-1990s. The Woodbridge collection of Indo-Persian art.

Comprising annular and coin-type beads with gold spacers. 35 grams, 47 cm



Ex North London, UK, gentleman. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

In the form of a standing dog with broad neck and partially covered mouth, strap handle to rear of the neck, squat body with curved plate to the rear; low-relief meander patterns. 3.85 kg, 36.5 cm high



Ex West Country collection, UK, 1970-1990s.