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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Guernsey. William IV CU 8 Doubles. Dated 1834.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Soho (Birmingham) mint. GUERNESEY, coat-of-arms, sprig above; all within wreath / 8 DOUBLES and date; all within wreath. SCBC 7200; KM#3. 20.83gr, 34mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Guernsey. Victoria CU 8 Doubles. Dated 1858.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
GUERNESEY, coat-of-arms, sprig above; all within wreath / 8 DOUBLES and date; all within wreath. SCBC 7203. 18.26gr, 34mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Channel Islands. Guernsey, AE Double Group. Dated 1830-1893.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Group comprising: Guernsey, 2, 4, and 8 Double pieces. SCBC 7201, 7205, 7206. 23.09gr total, 22-31mm
Very Fine - Extremely Fine. The 4 Double pierced.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Channel Islands. Guernsey, AE Double Group. Dated 1885-1893.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Group comprising: two Guernsey 1 Double pieces, with a 2 Double. 8.11gr total, 18-22mm
Good Extremely Fine - Near Mint State.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Guernsey. Victoria CU 4 Doubles. Dated 1893.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Heaton (Birmingham) mint. GUERNESEY, coat-of-arms, sprig above / 4 DOUBLES and date; H below. SCBC 7209. 4.96gr, 26mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Jersey. Victoria AE 1/13th of Shilling. Dated 1858.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Design by William Wyon. VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F:D:, young head facing to left, with hair banded; date below / STATES OF JERSEY. 1/13 OF A SHILLING, ornamented shield of the arms of Jersey. SCBC 7201. 17.48gr, 34mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Jersey. Victoria AE 1/26th of Shilling. Dated 1858.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Design by William Wyon. VICTORIA D:G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F:D:, young head to left; date below / STATES OF JERSEY. 1/26 OF A SHILLING, coat of Arms of Jersey. SCBC 7202. 8.72gr, 28mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Jersey. Victoria AE 1/52nd of Shilling. Dated 1841.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Design by William Wyon. VICTORIA D: G: BRITANNIAR: REGINA F: D:, young head to left; 1841(1 above 0) below / STATES OF JERSEY. 1/52 OF A SHILLING., shield of arms of the States of Jersey. SCBC 7202. 4.45gr, 22mm, 12h
Good Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Channel Islands. Jersey AE 1/48th & 1/24th of a Shilling. Dated 1877.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Group comprising: Victoria 1/48th & 1/24th of a Shilling issued in Jersey. SCBC 7007, SCBC 7008. 8.55gr total, 20-25mm
About Extremely Fine - Near Mint State.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Guyana, Demerara and Essequibo. George III CU One Stiver. Dated 1813.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Design by William Wyon. GEORGIUS III D: G. REX., laureate and draped bust to right / COLONIES OF ESSEQUEBO & DEMARARY TOKEN, crown above denomination; all within wreath; date below. KM#10. 18.74gr, 34mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Southern India. Travancore Kingdom, Silver Fanam (Chuckram) Group. Circa 1800-1847.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Obv: degenerated Kali, without inscription. Rev: stylised boar, without inscription. Krause C1; Herrli 1.20.30. 3.74gr total, 6mm
Uncirculated.
By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady. -
British India. Edward VII AR Two Annas. Dated 1906.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
EDWARD VII KING AND EMPEROR, bust of Edward VII to right / Crown above denomination in English and Urdu, date below, flanked by sprays. KM 505. 1.47gr, 15mm, 11h
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.