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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Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Cyzicus mint; struck AD 290-292. 2nd officina. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / CONCORDIA MILITVM, emperor standing to right, holding sceptre and receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, standing to left, holding sceptre; B between, XXI• in exergue. RIC V.2 306 var. (bust type). 3.90gr, 21mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Much original silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Antioch mint; struck AD 284. 4th officina. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / IOVI CONSERVATORI AVG, Diocletian standing to right, holding sceptre and receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter standing to left, holding sceptre; Δ between; XXI in exergue. RIC V.2 324. 3.83gr, 20mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Silvering almost fully intact.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Ticinum mint; struck AD 285. 6th officina. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IOVI CONSERVAT, Jupiter standing facing, head to left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; VIXXIT in exergue. RIC V.2 222; Cohen 201. 3.64gr, 22mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Diocletian BI Antoninianus. AD 284-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 285. 7th officina. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / IOVI CONSERVAT AVGG, Jupiter standing facing, head to left, holding thunderbolt with right hand and sceptre in left; XXIZ below. RIC V.2 161. 4.43gr, 23mm, 1h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman; collector's tickets included. -
Maximian BI Antoninianus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 289. 2nd officina. IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / HERCVLI INVICTO AVGG, Hercules standing facing, head to left, holding club with left hand and Victory on globe with right; S in left field. RIC V.2 365; Cohen 266. 4.24gr, 24mm, 7h
Good Very Fine. Some silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Maximian BI Antoninianus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 289. 2nd officina. IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to left, in the guise of Hercules, holding club over his right shoulder and wearing lion skin over his left / VIRTVTI AVGG, Hercules standing to right, leaning on club with lion's skin on rock; S in left field. RIC V.2 465. 2.58gr, 20mm, 1h
Very Fine. Very rare bust type.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Maximian BI Antoninianus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Treveri mint; struck AD 302-303. 1st officina. Treveri mint. IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / MONETA S AVGG ET CAESS NN, Moneta standing facing, head to left, holding scales with right hand and cornucopia with left; S-F across fields, ITR in exergue. RIC VI 544b. 9.59gr, 28mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Much silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Maximian BI Nummus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £30
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 302-304. 2nd officina. IMP MAXIMIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing facing, head to left, holding patera over lit altar with right hand and cornucopia with left; B in right field, PLG in exergue. RIC VI 108b; Lyon 342. 9.61gr, 28mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Green-brown patina; partially silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Maximian BI Nummus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Siscia mint; struck AD 295. 1st officina. IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI, Genius standing facing, head to left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera with right hand and cornucopia with left; A in right field, (star)SIS in exergue. RIC VI 85b. 9.65gr, 28mm, 11h
Extremely Fine. Full silvering.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Maximianus BI Nummus. First reign, AD 286-305.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
London mint; struck AD 301-305. IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POPVLI ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius on head, standing to left, holding patera and cornucopia. RIC VI 25; C&T 3.01.13; RML 59. 10.49gr, 27mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Rare.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Uncertain mint. [...]RAVSIVS P F AVG, radiate and draped bust to right / PA[X AV]G, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre. Cf. RIC V.2 880. 2.02gr, 19mm, 3h
Very Fine. Overstruck on uncertain type of Quintillus.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Carausius, Romano-British Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Uncertain mint. IMP CARAVSIVS P AVG, radiate and draped bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing to left, holding branch and transverse sceptre. RIC V.2 881. 2.71gr, 21mm, 7h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, collector.