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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Mixed AE Coin Group. 1st-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types including AE3/4s, Folles, and radiates. 353gr total including tray, 14-22mm
Various conditions.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Mixed AE Coin Group. 1st-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types including Siliqua, Sestertius, AE3/4s, Folles, and radiates; accompanied by a museum reproduction of a Claudius As. 375gr total including tray, 11-31mm
Various conditions.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Mixed AE Coin Group. 1st-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types including Sestertii, As, Dupondii, AE3/4s, Folles, and radiates. 293gr total including tray, 9-31mm
Various conditions.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Mixed AE Coin Group. 1st-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types including AE3/4s, Folles, and radiates. 380gr total including tray, 11-19mm
Various conditions.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Maximinus II AE Follis Group. 310-313 AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Group comprising: mixed issues, types and reverses. 33.20gr total, 22-25mm
Fine - Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK market. Ian Roper collection. Including five coin tickets. -
Mixed AE Coin Group. 3rd-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types. 74.50gr total including capsules, 11-19mm
Various conditions.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Late AE Radiate Antoninianus Group [76] 3rd-4th century A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types mainly radiates. 146gr total, 10-23mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Carausius AE Antoniniani Group. AD 286-293.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
1) Uncertain mint. [VIRTVS CAR]AVSI, radiate, helmeted, and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear over shoulder and shield / [PA]X AVG, Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre. Cf. RIC V 891. Very rare type. 2) Uncertain mint. Illegible inscription, radiate and draped bust to right / PA[X AVG], Pax standing to left, holding olive branch and vertical sceptre. Cf. RIC V 900. 3) Rotomagus(?) mint. [I]MP C[...]AVSIVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed(?) bust to right / [FORTV]NA AVG, Fortuna standing to left, holding rudder and cornucopiae. Cf. RIC V-2, Rotomagus 639; cf. Webb 696. Scarce type. 7.23gr total, 19-21 mm.
Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK. -
Roman AR and Plated Denarii [8]. 1st-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types, including those of Vespasian, Antoninus Pius, Julia Domna, Caracalla, and Septimius Severus. 22.06gr total, 16-19mm
Fine - Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Accompanied by previous coin tickets. -
Roman Imperial AE Coins in Various Denominations [13]. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Thirteen Roman Imperial coins of various rulers. 28.85gr total, 13-21mm
Fine - Extremely Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Constantinian, London Mint AE Radiate Group. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Group comprising: mixed emperors, issues and reverse types. 7.26gr total, 19mm
Very Fine.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Roman Imperial AE Sestertii Group [10]. 1st-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types including those of Hadrian, Faustina Junior, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. 180gr total
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.