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-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Group comprising: mixed early and late bronzes. 288gr total
As found.
Found Berkshire, UK. -
Roman Imperial AE Antoninianii. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Group comprising: mixed emperors, issues and reverse types. 21.47gr total, 17-20mm
Good Fine - Good Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Carausius and Allectus AE Antoninianii Group. AD 286-296.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Mixed group comprising: five Carausius Antoninianii of various issues, and an Allectus Quinarius minted at Colchester. 18.79gr total, 18-25mm
Mostly Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Lot of 2 AE of Arcadius. AD 383-408.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
1. Cyzicus mint. D N ARCADIVS P F AV, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOT V within wreath; SMK[...] below. Cf. RIC IX 20d (obverse legend). 2. Constantinople mint. D N ARCADIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS REI PVBLICAE, Victory advancing to left, holding trophy with right hand and dragging captive behind her; staurogram in left field, CONSA in exergue. RIC IX 86c. 2.51gr total, 12-13mm
Near Very Fine - Very Fine.
Acquired at an UK art market; Property of an Essex collector; Collector's tickets included. -
Mixed As, Dupondius and Other AE Group [26]. Mainly 1st-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Group comprising: various issues and reverse types including those of Claudius, Nero, Vespasian, Diocletian. 213gr total, 23-31mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Constantine I, London Mint AE Follis Group. 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Group comprising: mixed London issues and reverse types. 10.60gr total, 22-24mm
Good Very Fine.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Late Roman Imperial of Constantinian Family AE Nummi [7]. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Group comprising: mixed emperors, issues and reverse types. 18.28gr total, 17-20mm
Very Fine - Extremely Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Augustus AE 25mm of Panormus, Sicily. 27 BC-AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Struck circa AD 7-14. ΠΑΝΟΡ-ΜΙΤΑΝ, bare head to right / Triskeles with Gorgoneion at centre; ears of barley between legs. RPC I 641; CNS 20; SNG Copenhagen 543. 8.41gr, 25mm, 6h
Very Fine. Lightly tooled.
From the private collection of a London antiquarian. -
Divus Augustus (or Tiberius?) AE 22mm of Amphipolis, Macedon. Circa AD 14.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
ΘEOΣ KAΙΣAP ΣEBΑΣTOΣ, bare head to right / Artemis Tauropolos on bull advancing to right, holding billowing veil over head; AMΦΙΠOΛITΩN below. RPC I, 1635; Varbanov 3110; AMNG 72; BMC 74. 8.33gr, 22mm, 1h
Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Attica, Athens AE 21mm. Circa AD 264-267.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Pseudo-autonomous issue. Head of Athena to right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / AΘHNAIΩN, Athena standing facing, head to left, holding spear in her right hand and shield in her left. Cf. Kroll 318; cf. Svoronos pl. 86. 6.17gr, 21mm, 3h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla AE 29mm of Amaseia, Pontus. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Dated CY 209 (AD 207/8). AY KAI M AYP ANTΩ[...], laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / ΑΔΡ CЄY AN AMA-[...] NЄ ΠΡ ΠO, Tyche standing facing, head to left, holding rudder in her right hand and cornucopia in her left; ЄT CΘ across fields, star to right. Lindgren I 15 var. (star to left); cf. RG 68. 14.50gr, 29mm, 6h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Caracalla Æ 26mm of Alexandria, Troas. AD 198-217.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Struck AD 214-215. [M AVRE] ANTONINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / COL ALEX AVG, she-wolf standing to left, head to right, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. Bellinger A304 var. (obverse legend & bust); SNG Righetti 778. 7.80gr, 26mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.