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 a carinated outer face, composed of twisted silver bars; cleaned; probably from North Africa. 35 grams, 68 mm wide



Acquired before the early 1970s. Ex London, UK, gallery. Property of a London gentleman.

Depicted squatting and displaying scarification marks around the chest, median crested coiffure with hands resting on the knees. 1.9 kg, 69 cm high



From Côte d'Ivoire/Ghana. From an old Newbury, UK, ethnographic collection.

The Senufo peoples are distributed in West Africa in the area of Cote d'Ivoire and Mali. They are famed for their woodcarving skills as well as their musical abilities.

Including rectangular, discoid and other types with inset carnelian cloisons. 100 grams total, 24-33 mm



Ex London art market, Mayfair 1990s.

Including one seated with children on the lap, and other types. 994 grams total, 4.6-12.5 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.

Group of two penannular round-section bracelets with clubbed ends. 29 grams total, 58-84 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.

Each a narrow hoop with square rove to the looped end, body formed as a six-pointed star with inset glass cloisons. 17.3 grams total, 44-45 mm



From the family collection of a Maida Vale lady, UK.

With inset mainly discoid stones bearing geometric designs. 80 grams total, 26-30 mm



Ex London art market, Mayfair 1990s.

Comprising six small specimens displaying blue and green colours, collection number 218. 6.01 grams total, 13-21 mm



Ex Miss Rawlinson in 1908. Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Carpopenaeus sp. on a rectangular matrix. 113 grams, 10 cm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising: tuff from Chineham District Centre, Chineham, Basingstoke, England, collection number 532; pale apple-green gypsum from Rudna Copper Mine, Lubin, Poland, collection number 576; lepidolite from Brazil, collection number 268; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 501; a cut and polished agate geode half from Brazil, collection number 68; asrophyllite from Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, USSR, collection number 556; breccia, collection number 188; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; boleite, collection number 553. 1.46 kg total, 3.5-11.5 cm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Six specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising: blue kyanite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, collection number 427; stained calcite from Ghajn Tuffer, Malta, collection number 41; amethyst geode half from Brazil, collection number 276; pyrite, collection number 343; bornite with calcite, collection number 162; light blue celestine, collection number 264; chalcopyrite on sphalerite on dolomite from Joplin district, Missouri, USA; jasper from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 226; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 193. 655 grams total, 32-77 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Horseshoe-shaped body with a broad cephalon rim and genal spines that overhang the rest of the body; some restoration. 250 grams, 13 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.