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'.

Rectangular casket with hinged lid and melon-bead feet; four sides and lid with inset lapis lazuli panel in a gilt frame, caryatid to each corner, applied openwork ribbons and rosettes, handle of lid formed as an advancing lion, loop handle on each end formed as a harpy. 645 grams, 14.5 cm wide



Private collection, England.

Modelled nude with right leg thrust forward, left arm raised and head turned, right arm held back for balance; miniature heater shield on strap to left forearm; mounted on a rectangular base. 15.45 kg total, 50.5 cm including stand



Private collection, England.

Modelled in the half-round, the saint with his left hand tied to the branch of a tree, right hand behind his back, legs spread on a bulbous base; arrow fletchings protruding from his shin, thigh, hip, shoulder and eye; mounting holes above the head and in the base; mounted on a custom-made stand. 906 grams total, 26.7 cm including stand



Schuster collection, Cologne, Germany. Elmar Robert, 2013. Private collection, Suffolk, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12306-221717.

Of fluted columnar form with the upper part formed as a lion leaping forward with its forepaws resting on the rim of the vessel; ovoid attachment plate at the lower end with mask of Venus; mounted on a custom-made stand. 243 grams total, 17 cm high (21 cm high including stand)



Acquired between 1980-1983.

A triangular majolica armorial floor tile from the Piccolomini Library, Siena; showing a crescent moon on blue background, scrollwork border. 340 grams, 15 cm



with Christie's South Kensington, 1 October 2013, no.351 [Part]. Ex central London gallery.

The Piccolomini Library adjoins the Siena Cathedral, a medieval Roman Catholic Marian church consecrated in 1215. It houses illuminated choir books and frescoes painted probably based on designs by Raphael, that tell the life story of Pope Pius II, Siena's favourite son.

With sculpted fronds to the shoulders, bezel a rectangular cell with hatched underside and scooped ledges, inset rock crystal cloison. 3.34 grams, 21.66 mm overall, 16.26 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)



Acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. UK collection of a European gentleman.

Barrel-shaped hoop with legend to the inner face in italic script ''In thee my choice I doe rejoice' and maker's mark 'CT'. 8.85 grams, 21.58 mm overall, 18.31 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)



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

With rounded outer face; legend to the inner face in italic script 'Let your life show your love' with 'long s'. 5.29 grams, 22.15 mm overall, 19.24 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 2)



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

With reserved rosettes and pellets to the outer face; legend in seriffed capitals to the inner face 'DENIAL IS DEATH'. 1.22 grams, 16.80 mm overall, 15.43 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2 , USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)



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

The hoop carinated, kidney-shaped cabochon held in a claw setting with engraved scalloped border. 8.65 grams, 27.52 mm overall, 16.86 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10)



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

Depicting a dynamic figural scene comprising a mounted horse-rider together with a second rider mounted on a mythical creature with two heads, the body and hindlegs of a horse and head and forelegs of a lion or other creature, two standing figures bin the foreground; egg-and-dart style frame with acanthus leaves to each corner. 4.2 kg, 54.6 x 38.6 cm



Private collection, England.

Carved bifacial tau-cross with bands of hatching to the broad faces, reserved lozenge panels, cuboid baluster with central piercing to each face, barrel-shaped lower body with cord binding to prevent splitting; mounted on a custom-made stand. 237 grams total, 30 cm high including stand



Milos Simovic, New York, USA, 2005. Ex central London gallery.