Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
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. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
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. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
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. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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 Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
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. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
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'.
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Crispina, Augusta AE As. AD 178-182.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Rome mint. CRISPINA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right / CERES, Ceres, veiled and draped, seated to left on chest, holding corn-ears and long torch; S C across fields. RIC III 674; Cohen 4; BMCRE 426. 9.08gr, 26mm, 11h
Very Fine. Light green patina.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Crispina, Augusta AE Dupondius. AD 178-182.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint; struck AD 180-183. CRISPINA AVGVSTA, draped bust to right / CONCORDIA, Concordia seated to left, holding patera and cornucopiae; S C across fields. RIC III 675 (Commodus); Cohen 7; BMCRE 427 (Commodus). 11.92gr, 27mm, 12h
Very Fine. Nice olive green patina.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Septimius Severus AR Denarius. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Rome mint; struck AD 206. SEVERVS PIVS AVG, laureate head to right / P M TR P XIIII COS III P P, Annona standing facing, head to left, holding corn ears over modius with her right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC IV 200; BMCRE 489; RSC 476. 2.91gr, 20mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Septimius Severus AR Denarius. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Rome mint; struck AD 200-201. SEVERVS AVG PART MAX, laureate head to right / P M TR P VIII COS II P P, Victory flying to left holding open wreath in both hands over round shield set on low base. RIC IV 150; BMCRE 175; RSC 454. 3.34gr, 19mm, 1h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Septimius Severus AR Denarius. AD 193-211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Emesa mint; struck AD 194-5. IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II, laureate head to right / LIBER[...] AVG, Liberalitas standing facing, head to left, holding abacus and cornucopia. Cf. RIC IV 400; cf. Cohen 283; cf. RSC 283a. 2.66gr, 18mm, 5h
Very Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Divus Septimius Severus AR Denarius. Died AD 211.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Rome mint. Struck under Caracalla, AD 211. Consecration issue. DIVO SEVERO PIO, bare head to right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing to right, head to left, on garlanded altar. RIC IV 191d (Caracalla); RSC 86. 2.42gr, 19mm, 1h
Very Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Caracalla, as Caesar AE As. AD 196-198.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Rome mint; struck AD 196-197. [M AVR] ANTONINVS C[AES], bare-headed and draped bust to right, seen from rear / SEVERI [AVG P II FIL], lituus, knife, patera, jug, simpulum, and sprinkler; S C in exergue. RIC IV 404; Cohen 586; BMCRE 615. 10.75gr, 25mm, 6h
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AR Antoninianus. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Rome mint; struck AD 215. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG GERM, radiate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / P M TR P XVIII COS IIII P P, Jupiter seated to left, holding Victory with right hand and sceptre with left; eagle at feet to left. RIC IV 260b var. (bust type); RSC 277b. 5.19gr, 23mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Geta, as Caesar AR Denarius. AD 198-209.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rome mint; struck AD 200-202. P SEPT GETA CAES PONT, bare-headed and draped bust to right / FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas standing to left, holding caduceus and cornucopia. RIC 9a. 2.14gr, 19mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Macrinus AE As. AD 217-218.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Rome mint; struck AD 217. IMP CAES M OPEL SEV MACRINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right; seen from rear / VOTA PVBL P M TR P, Fides standing facing, head to left, holding standard in each hand and flanked by two more standards; S C across lower fields. RIC IV.2 129; BMCRE 98. 9.99gr, 27mm, 12h
Near Very Fine. Dark green patina. Very Rare.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman; Acquired from David Miller, January 2016. -
Julia Maesa, Augusta AR Denarius. AD 218-224/5.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rome mint; AD 218-222. IVLIA MAESA AVG, draped bust to right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Felicitas standing facing, head to left, holding long caduceus with left hand and sacrificing over lighted altar with right; star in right field. RIC IV 271 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 79-80 (Elagabalus); RSC 45. 3.26gr, 19mm, 2h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Julia Maesa, Augusta AR Antoninianus. AD 218-224/5.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Rome mint; struck AD 218-222. IVLIA MAESA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, head to left, sacrificing over lit altar to left and holding incense box with left hand. RIC IV 264 (Elagabalus); BMCRE 72 (Elagabalus); RSC 30. 4.77gr, 22mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.