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'.

Formed from a single length of rod; median hoop of four coils developing at each end to a perpendicular coiled plaque. 24.94 grams, 72.00 mm overall, 17.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)



Acquired in Vienna, Austria, in 2001. In Switzerland before 2005. Property of a London gentleman.

Formed as an ellipsoid-section tapering rod with the ends flattened. 17.2 grams, 17 mm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Tall barrel-shaped body with thick rim, impressed cord patterning to the rim and upper body, incised plait designs to the base. 532 grams, 14.6 cm



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.

Of rounded biconvex profile with low rim to the mouth, incised hatched band to the shoulder. 1.76 kg, 27 cm wide



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.

Hollow-formed pyramidal mount with dense Insular Style knotwork design in low relief. 6.72 grams, 20 mm



Found North Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998. Accompanied by a copy of UK Detector Finds Database (UKDFD) report no.57993.

The decoration of this mount probably dates it to the 8th century which is very late for this type of artefact. The lack of a transverse bar to the underside suggests that this item may have been a cover or cap for a more functional form of boss.

Comprising a rectangular headplate with geometric panels and punched horseshoes to the border, thick ribbed bow, trefoil footplate with mask to the disc finial; reverse with catch and ferrous remains to the pin-lug. 19 grams, 65 mm.



Found UK. From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection. Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK. Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

Triangular in plan with median rib extending from a triangular panel to the beast-head finial; lateral panels of dense Style I ornament; later piercing below straight edge; Hines's Class B. 7.7 grams, 51 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Gusset plates were attached to the lower sleeve of female dresses to ensure that the fabric did not tear when the cuff was opened.

Lozenge with scooped sides and deep rim, band of Style 1 zoomorphic ornament, central escutcheon with quatrefoil. 8.91 grams, 24 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Hollow-formed spherical terminal with five radiating kops each with applied filigree scrolls, similar band to the junction with the shank; eight cells each with a recess for a glass stud (five absent). 18.9 grams, 35 mm



Found near Kelling, Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998. Accompanied by a copy of UK Detector Finds Database (UKDFD) report no.57992. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12286-221758.

Knob from a cruciform brooch with attachment loop to rear; stylised facing mask with conical pellet etes, flanking avian heads and panel beneath. 9.96 grams, 40 mm



Found Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Discoid with raised rim and panel of geometric roundels and arms in an enamelled matrix. 10.9 grams, 30 mm



Found East Anglia, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Comprising a large cruciform brooch and two bronze small-long brooches; (A) the cruciform of 'florid' type much gilding and applied silver ornament; the headplate a central rectangle with a high-relief Style I motif, framed on three sides by sheet-silver bands and with panels of gilt billeting to the outer edges, lateral and upper flanges each formed as a stylised male face with conical eyes flanked by avian heads and with a T-shaped sheet-silver beard; the bow broad and flat with vertical columns of punched-pot detailing, and surmounted at the apex by a square panel with green enamel fill and reserved quatrefoil; the lower body with similar panel to the headplate with lateral vertical bands with punched detailing, outer edges with applied sheet-silver panels; below, the foot formed as a stern male face with heavy brows and conical eyes developing to a broad pelta-shaped finial with Style I ornament inside a raised border, lateral avian heads and punched detailing; to the reverse, a ferrous lump attached to the pin-lug and feint solder-scar where the catch was attached; some traces of mineralised fabric; (B) bronze small-long brooch with rectangular headplate divided into three panels, each with punched-point to the outer edges, shallow bow, narrow neck to the footplate with transverse ribbing, trapezoidal foot with punched-point edging; to the reverse, a large pin-lug with ferrous accretion and a small hooked catch below; (C) bronze small-long brooch with rectangular headplate flanked on three sides by T-shaped extensions with stepped profile, incised borderlines and punched pellets; deep carinated bow with stepped corners; pelta-shaped foot with punched pellets to the edges; to the reverse, a D-shaped pin-lug with ferrous accretion inside the bow, narrow catch with hooked edge absent. 225 grams total, 6.3-17.5 cm



Found East Anglia, UK, early 1990s. Accompanied by a written report compiled by Anglo-Saxon specialist Stephen Pollington. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12287-221153.

The group belongs to a standard assemblage in 6th century female graves, with two smaller brooches worn at the shoulders to support a peplos dress, and a larger and more ornamental brooch worn on the chest to close a shawl or mantle.