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 Silver Hammered Coin Group. 13th-16th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising: various monarchs, denominations, issues and reverse types including a Mary Groat, Elizabeth I Sixpence and Half Groat, and Edward I Pennies. 8.69gr total, 16-23mm
Uncleaned 'as found' condition.
Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK. -
Plantagenet. Edward I AR Long Cross Penny Group. 1272-1307.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising: mixed issues and types including London, canterbury, and Bury St Edmunds. 5.12gr total, 18-19mm
Fine - Good fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
Medieval and Later Hammered Coin Group. 1154-1649.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Group comprising: mixed monarchs, issues and reverse types including those of Henry II, Henry III, Edward I, Edward III, Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I. 39.17gr total, 10-30mm
'As Found' Condition.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Plantagenet. Edward I & Sterling AR Long Cross Penny Group. 1272-1307.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: mixed issues and types including London, Canterbury, and a sterling imitation with spread eagle in the reverse legend. 5.25gr total, 17-19mm
Fine - Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Stuart, Charles I AE Rose Farthing Group. 1625-1649.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Group comprising: three copper rose farthing all with their brass plugs visible. SCBC 3201-6. 2.68gr total, 13-14mm
Very Fine.
Found on various UK sites on the Thames foreshore since 1974. Property of an Essex collector. -
England. Medieval and Later AR Coin Group. 1154-1272.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Group comprising: mixed issues and reverse types, including those of Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Edward IV, Elizabeth I, Charles I, and others. 26.30gr total, 11-19mm
'As Found' Condition.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Stuart, Charles II AR Halfcrown. 1660-1685.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
London mint. Dually dated RY XV and 1663. Type D. CAROLVS (V over S) • II • DEI • GRATIA, laureate and draped bust to right / MAG• BR • FRA • ET • HIB• REX •, crowned cruciform shields, interlinked Cs in angles, rayed Garter Star at centre, seven strings to harp, date above. Edge inscription: •++• DECVS • ET • TVTAMEN •★• ANNO • REGNI • XV. SCBC 3361; ESC 440 (457A). 14.77gr, 32mm, 6h
Very Fine. Very rare (R2 for ESC).
Found in Buerton, Cheshire East, UK; Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) reference no.LVPL-C35F70. -
England. Charles II AR Twopence. Dated 1683.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Design by John Roetier. CAROLVS·II· DEI·GRATIA, laureate and draped bust to right / MAG·BR·FRA·ET·HIB·REX CC, crown above interlinked C's; date above. SCBC 3388; KM# 429. 0.95gr, 14mm, 6h
Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Great Britain. Charles II AR Farthing. Dated 1672.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
CAROLVS·A· CAROLO, laureate and cuirassed bust of King Charles II to left / BRITAN NIA·, seated figure of Britannia to left, holding spear in left hand, olive branch in raised right hand, shield with Union flag resting at left; date in exergue. SCBC.3394; KM.436.1. 4.94gr, 23mm, 6h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Stuart (Orange), William and Mary AR Halfcrown. Dated 1693 and RY QVINTO.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Tower (London) mint. Second busts; third shields. GVLIELMVS.ET.MARIA.DEI.GRATIA, conjoined laureate and draped busts to right / MAG BR FR ET HI REX ET REGINA, crowned cruciform shields with WM monogram and date numbers in angles. Edge inscription: DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI QVINTO. SCBC 3436. 14.79gr, 32mm, 6h
Near Very Fine.
Property of a Southminster, UK, collector. -
England. William and Mary AR Fourpence. Dated 1689.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
GVLIELMVS · ET · MARIA · D · G, conjoined laureate busts of King William and Queen Mary to right / MAG · BR · FR · ET · HIB · REX · ET · REGINA · 1689 ·, central crowned denomination. SCBC 3439; KM 471. 1.99gr, 19mm, 5h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Stuart (Orange), William and Mary Tin Halfpenny. Dated 1691.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Type 1. GVLIELMVS ET MARIA, copper plug at centre, conjoined laureate and draped busts to right / BRITANNIA, Britannia seated on globe with spear, shield and spray of leaves, date below in exergue. Edge inscription: NVMMORVM++FAMVLVS.1691++. Peck 583 ER; SCBC 3451. 10.89gr, 28mm, 6h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.