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 Bronze and Silver Coin Group. AD 138-161.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types including a Sestertius of Severus Alexander, Denarius of Antoninus Pius, and a pierced Antoninianus of Carausius. 51.16gr total, 14-30mm
Fair - Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
Roman Imperial AE Nummi of London mint [5] 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Group comprising: mixed emperors, issues and reverse types. 12.44gr total, 18-20mm
Good Very Fine - Near Extremely Fine.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Roman Imperial AE Coins Group [92]. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types mainly from the House of Constantine. 211gr total, 10-25mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Carausius, London AE Antoninianus Group. 286-293 AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mixed group comprising: three Carausius Antoninianii of various issues and reverse types. 10.62gr total, 23-24 mm
Fine - Good Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK. -
Roman Imperial AE Nummi of Constantinian Family [7]. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Group comprising: mixed emperors, issues and reverse types. 17.52gr total, 16-22mm
Very Fine - Extremely Fine.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Roman Imperial AE Sestertii Group [10]. 1st-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types including those of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina Senior, and Faustina Junior. 162gr total, 29-32mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Necklace with Three Roman Imperial Denarii. 1st-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £345
Denarii from Vespasian, TItus and Trajan. 12.13gr
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Roman Provincial AE Coins of Viminacium [6]. 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Six Roman provincial coins of various rulers from Viminacium. 91.00gr total
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Greek, Roman Imperial and Byzantine AE Coins Group [9]. 3rd century BC-10th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
From various mints and rulers. 49.83gr total, 17-28mm
Fine to Good Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Roman Imperial AE Coins Group [92]. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types mainly from the House of Constantine. 199gr total, 12-25mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Carausius, London AE Antoniniani Group. 286-293 AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Group comprising: two Carausius antoninianii of various issues and reverse types. 4.98gr total, 20mm
Good Fine - Very Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK. -
Carausius and Allectus AE Antoniniani Group. 286-296 AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Mixed group comprising: three Carausius Antoniniani of various issues, a London mint Allectus Antoninianus, and an Allectus Quinarius minted at Colchester. 16.09gr total, 19-22mm
Fine - Good Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.