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'.

Rome mint; struck AD 137. L AELIVS CAESAR, bare head to right / TR POT COS II, Spes walking to left, holding flower with right hand and raising skirt with left; S C across fields. RIC II.3 2695; Cohen 56; Banti 33-4; BMCRE 1914-16 (Hadrian). 12.32gr, 29mm, 5h

Very Fine - Good Very Fine. Dark green patina.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 151-152. IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P, laureate head to right / TR POT XV COS IIII, Fortuna standing facing, head to right, holding rudder on globe with right hand and cornucopia with left; S C across fields. RIC III 888; Cohen 958; BMCRE 1885. 25.45gr, 32mm, 6h

Near Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck July AD 138. IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG, bare head to right / PONT MAX TR POT COS, Diana standing to right, holding arrow and bow. RIC II.3 1b; BMCRE 3 note; RSC 665a. 3.20gr, 18mm, 6h

Very Fine. Toned. Very rare.

From an early 20th century collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

DIVVS ANTONINVS, bare head to right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing to right on altar, head turned to left. RIC III 431 [Aurelius]; RSC 156. 3.00gr, 18mm, 12h

Very fine.

Found Yorkshire, UK.

Rome mint. Struck after AD 141. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust to right / AVGVSTA, Ceres standing facing, head to left, holding torch with right hand and sceptre with left. RIC III 356 (Pius); BMCRE 399 (Pius); RSC 96. 3.50gr, 18mm, 5h

Good Very Fine. Nicely toned with golden iridescence around the devices on obverse.

Ex Spink, dealer's ticket included. Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.

Rome mint; struck after AD 141. DIVA FAVSTINA, draped bust to right / AETERNITAS, Providentia standing facing, head to left, holding globe with right hand and veil blown out around head. RIC III 351 (Pius); BMCRE 373 (Pius); RSC 32. 3.22gr, 19mm, 6h

Good Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 179(?). M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG TR P [XXXIII?], laureate head to right / [FELICITAS AVG IMP X COS III P P?], Felicitas standing facing, head to left, holding caduceus in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; S C across fields. Cf. RIC III 1239; cf. Cohen 186; cf. BMC 1695. 27.23gr, 31mm, 6h

Fine.

From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.

Rome mint. Struck AD 171-172. M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVI, laureate head of Marcus Aurelius to right; drapery on far shoulder / IMP VI COS III, Roma, helmeted, seated to left, holding Victory in her right hand and spear in her left; shield by her side decorated with Medusa's head (?); S C across fields. RIC III, - (cf. 1033, no drapery); BMCRE - (cf. 1416, same). 27.19 gr, 30mm, 1h

Very Fine - Good Very Fine. Nice olive green patina. Unpublished variant in the major references.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Rome mint. Struck AD 161-175. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right / FECVND AVGVSTAE, Fecunditas standing facing, head to left, between two children reaching up and holding two infants in her arms. RIC III 676 (Aurelius); BMCRE 89 (Aurelius and Verus); RSC 95. 3.00gr, 18mm, 6h

Good Very Fine. Minor deposits on both sides.

Ex Spink London, dealer's ticket included; Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.

Rome mint; struck AD 186. M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate head to right / P M TR P XII IMP VII COS V P P, Commodus standing facing, head to left, on platform, holding sceptre in his left hand and raising his right hand toward three soldiers standing before him on the ground, all holding aquilae; S C across lower fields; FID EXERCIT in exergue. RIC III 468a; Cohen 134; BMC 577. 25.15gr, 32mm, 1h

Very Fine.

From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.

Rome mint; struck AD 186. M COMMODVS ANT P FELIX AVG BRIT, laureate head to right / P M TR P [XI IMP VII COS V P P], emperor standing to left on platform, addressing four soldiers; [S C] across fields, [F]ID EXERCI[T] in exergue. RIC III 468b; Cohen 136; BMCRE 580. 22.18gr, 29mm, 6h

Near Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 191-192. L AEL AVREL COMM AVG P FEL, laureate head to right / HERCVLI ROMANO AVG, Hercules standing to left, holding club and lion skin, crowning trophy. RIC 254a. 1.99gr, 17mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.