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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England. Stuart, William III AR Sixpence. Dated 1700.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
GVLIELMVS III DEI GRA, profile bust to right / MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX, cruciform arms; date below. SCBC 3538; ESC 6th 1233 (old 1566). 3.03gr, 20mm, 6h
About Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
England. Stuart Restored, William III AR Sixpence. 1694-1702.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
London mint. Dated 1696. GVLIELMUS• III • DEI • GRA•, laureate and draped bust of William III to right / MAG• BR • FRA• ET • HIB• REX •, crowned cruciform shields, central lion of Nassau rampant, date above. SCBC 3520; KM 484.1; ESC 1533. 3.20gr, 21mm, 6h
Fine.
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
England. Stuart, William III AE Halfpenny. Dated 1700.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Third issue. GVLIELMVS TERTIVS, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / BRITANNIA, Britannia seated to left, date in exergue. SCBC 3556; Peck 693. 9.61gr, 28mm, 11h
About Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
England. Stuart Restored, Anne AR Shilling. 1702-1714.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Edinburgh mint. Dated 1707. O&J type 1. ANNA • DEI • GRATIA •, second draped bust of Queen Anne to left, E* below / MAG• BRI • FR• ET • HIB• REG •, crowned cruciform shields with central rayed Garter star, five strings to harp; date (J7-O7) above. SCBC 3609; ESC -; (cf. 1420; 6 strings). 5.74gr, 25mm, 6h
Fair. Very rare; not in ESC.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Great Britain. Anne Trial Cast Pattern Farthing. 1702-1714.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
ANNA DEI GRATIA, bust to left / BRITANNIA.1713, Britannia seated to left. For prototype: SCBC 3625. 3.86gr, 24mm, 12h
Good Fine. Sprue remaining. An interesting imitation or contemporary 'Pattern' Farthing.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
English Milled Coins - Great Britain. Hanover, George III AR Halfcrown. 1760-1820.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
London mint. Dated 1816. New coinage. GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, laureate head to right, date below / REX FID DEF BRITANNIARUM, crowned and collared coat-of-arms. SCBC 3788; ESC 613. 14.00gr, 32mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George III AR Shilling. Dated 1787.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, profile bust to right / M B F ET H REX F D B ET L D S R I A T ET E, cruciform arms and crowns; date below. SCBC 3746; ESC 6th 2129 (old 1225). 5.98gr, 25mm, 12h
About Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George III AR Shilling. Dated 1787.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, profile bust to right / M B F ET H REX F D B ET L D S R I A T ET E, cruciform arms and crowns; date below. SCBC 3746; ESC 6th 2129 (old 1225). 6.01gr, 25mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George III AR Shilling. Dated 1787.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Early coinage. GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, profile bust to right / M B F ET H REX F D B ET L D S R I A T ET E, cruciform arms and crowns with date below. SCBC 3743; ESC 6th 2125 (old 1216). 6.00gr, 25mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
English Milled Coins - Great Britain, George IV AR Crown. 1820-1830.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Dated 1821 and RY SECUNDO. GEORGIUS IIII D G BRITANNIAR REX F D, laureate head to left / St George and dragon with date below. Edge inscription: DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI SECUNDO. SCBC 3805; Bull 2310; ESC 246. 27.51gr, 38mm, 7h
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AR Crown. Dated RY VIII and 1845.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Young head type. VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, young head to left, wearing fillet; date below / BRITANNIARUM REGINA FID DEF, crowned arms within wreath. Edge inscription: DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGN VIII with cinquefoil stops. SCBC 3882; ESC 6th 2564 (old 282); BSC 433. 28.00gr, 38mm, 6h
Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK. -
Great Britain. Victoria Silvered CU Penny. Dated 1841.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, young filleted head to left, date below / BRITANNIAR: REG FID: DEF :, Britannia seated to right with ornamental trident and shield, emblems in exergue. Peck 1484; SCBC 3948. 18.98gr, 34mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.