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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Canada. Victoria AE One Cent. 1896.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Desings by Leonard Charles Wyon and George William de Saulles. VICTORIA DEI GRATIA REGINA. CANADA, head of Queen Victoria to left wearing tiara / ONE CENT 1891 within maple leaves wrapped around a vine. KM 7; Schön 5. 5.71gr, 25mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Canada. AE One Penny Token Group. Dated 1832-1856.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Group comprising: three Canadian one Penny tokens all from Nova Scotia. 49.41gr total, 33-34mm
Fine - Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Canada. AE Token Group. Circa 1837-1852.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Group comprising: four Canadian copper one Penny bank tokens. 71.15gr total, 33-34mm
Fine - Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
China. AE Cash Coin Group. 18th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: Qing Dynasty issues with four Chinese characters on the obverses and two characters on the reverses. 54.51gr total, 23mm each
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK. -
France. Napoleon Bonaparte AR 5 Francs. Dated L'An 12 (1803-1804).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Paris mint. Design by Pierre-Joseph Tiolier. BONAPARTE PREMIER CONSUL, bareheaded bust to right / RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, olive wreath containing denomination; AN 12 (date) below. Edge inscription: ★DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE. Gad 577; KM 659. 24.50gr, 37mm, 6h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
France. Napoleon AR Franc. Dated 1804.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Paris mint. Design by Pierre-Joseph Tiolier. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, bare head to right; below, Tiolier / RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, 1 FRANC within wreath; below, date between A and rooster. F# 201; Gad# 443; KM# 656. 4.90gr, 18mm, 6h
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
France. Napoleon AR Demi Franc. Dated 1809.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Paris mint. Design by Pierre-Joseph Tiolier. NAPOLEON EMPEREUR, laureate head to right; Tiolier below / EMPIRE FRANÇAIS, DEMI FRANC within wreath; below, date between A and Rooster. F# 178; Gad# 399; KM# 691. 2.41gr, 13mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
France. Napoleon AR Quart Franc. Dated 1803.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Paris mint. Design by Pierre-Joseph Tiolier. BONAPARTE PR. CONSUL., bare head to right; below, Tiolier / REP. FRA., QUART within wreath, below, date between A and rooster. F# 157; Gad# 342; KM# 653. 1.24gr, 11mm, 6h
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
France. Napoleon III AE 5 Centimes. Dated 1855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Paris mint. Design by Désiré-Albert Barre. NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR, bare head to left, BARRE below; date between anchor and hand / EMPIRE FRANÇAIS * CINQ CENTIMES *, eagle with spread wings seated facing on thunderbolt, head to right, A below. F# 117; Gad# 155; KM# 797. 5.04gr, 25mm, 6h
Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
France. Napoleon III AE 2 Centimes. Dated 1854.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lille mint. Design by Jacques-Jean Barre. NAPOLEON III EMPEREUR, bare head to left, BARRE below; date between marks below / EMPIRE FRANÇAIS * DEUX CENTIMES *, eagle with spread wings seated facing on thunderbolt, head to right; W below. F# 107; Gad# 103; KM# 776. 1.94gr, 20mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
France. AE 5 Centimes. Dated 1879.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Paris mint. Design by Eugène-André Oudiné and Joseph-François Domard. REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 1898, wreathed head of Concordia to left, below, OUDINÉ; all within dotted circle; date between stars below / LIBERTÉ * ÉGALITÉ * FRATERNITÉ *, 5 CENTIMES within wreath. F# 118; Gad# 157; KM# 821. 5.05gr, 25mm, 6h
About Uncirculated.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Germany States. Lubeck AR Witten. 1353-1379.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
✶MONETA.LUBINESIS, double-headed eagle within beaded circle / CIVITAS.IM[...], cross patée with star at centre; all within beaded circle. Behr 48; Jesse 361. 0.30gr, 13mm, 4h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.