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'.

Kugelwange type. Celticised, laureate and bearded head to right / Horse prancing to left. Cf. Göbl, OTA pl. 17, types 204-208. 3.26gr, 15mm, 3h

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress; four pellets (mark of value) downwards behind / Quiver, club and bow; LOVCERI beneath club. HN Italy 679; SNG ANS 704-5; HGC 1, 608. 14.45gr, 24mm, 2h

Near Extremely Fine. Rare.

Ex Gutekunst Collection; From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Warrior, nude but for helmet, standing facing behind bridled horse to left, holding spear and shield with right hand and resting left on horse's back; |- to right / Taras astride dolphin to left, holding trident in extended right hand, and shield in left; TAPAΣ behind, A over waves below. Vlasto 516-18; HN Italy 889; SNG ANS 693. 7.13gr, 22mm, 10h

Near Very Fine.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Attic helmet, decorated with wreath / Bull standing to left, head lowered; ΘOYPIΩN above, fish to left in exergue. SNG ANS 1119-23; HN Italy 1777. 1.13gr, 12mm, 2h

Near Extremely Fine.

From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.

Obverse die signed by Euarchidas. Struck circa 413-405 BC. Charioteer driving fast quadriga to left; above, Nike flying to right, crowning charioteer; grain ear in exergue, [EYAPXIΔA on exergue line] / Head of Arethousa to left, wearing sphendone; two dolphins around. Rizzo pl. XLIII, 6; HGC 2, 1366. 2.05gr, 17mm, 3h

Good Very Fine. Nice old cabinet tone with blue and gold iridescence around the devices.

From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.

Wreathed head of Arethusa to left; [ΣYPAKO]ΣIΩN upwards before, bucranium behind / Bull butting to left, ΣΩ above. CNS II, 106; HGC 2, 1489. 3.22gr, 18mm, 10h

Very Fine. Nice green patina.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Draped bust of Artemis Soteira to right; quiver over shoulder, ΣΩTEIPA downwards before / Winged thunderbolt; AΓAΘOKΛEOΣ above, BAΣIΛEOΣ below. CNS II, 142; BAR Issue 33; SNG ANS 708; HGC 2, 1537. 8.38gr, 22mm, 5h

Very Fine. Green patina.

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

Facing gorgoneion, with tongue protruding / Head of nymph to right, her hair coiled around her head and with a bun at the back; N-E-O-Π around; all within circular incuse. SNG Copenhagen 227-8; SNG ANS 452; HGC 3.1, 588. 1.87gr, 14mm, 7h

Extremely Fine.

Ex Chaponnière & Firmenich SA, Auction 15, 21 May 2022, lot 13 (dealer's ticket included); From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.

Uncertain mint in Macedon. Male head to left, wearing taenia / [ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ], youth on horse rearing to right; below, thunderbolt. SNG ANS 884. 5.37gr, 19mm, 8h

Very Fine.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Amphipolis mint; struck under Kassander, circa 307-297 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; in left field, Λ above torch; beneath throne, kantharos. Price 468. 17.21gr, 26mm, 4h

Very Fine.

From a UK private collection.

Kition mint; struck under Pumiathon, circa 325-320. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΒΑΣIΛΕΩΣ [ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ], Zeus seated to left on backless throne, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; monogram of KT to left. Price 3107. 17.10gr, 26mm, 12h

Near Extremely Fine. Toned with gold iridescence around the devices.

From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.

Miletos mint. Struck under Philoxenos, circa 325-323 BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress, paws tied beneath chin / ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, Zeus seated to left on backless throne, left leg drawn back, his feet resting on a low foot rest, holding long sceptre in his left hand and, in his right, eagle standing to right with closed wings; ΔΗ monogram in left field. Price 2090; Müller 763. 4.14gr, 17mm, 11h

Near Very Fine.

From a UK private collection.