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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Spain. Fillipe V AR 2 Reales. Dated 1721.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Madrid mint. PHILIPPUS V D G, crowned shield of Spain / HISPANIARUM REX, arms of Castile and Leon. Calicò tipo 210; KM 296. 5.42gr, 27mm, 2h
Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Spain. Fillipe V AR 2 Reales. Dated 1725.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Cuenca mint. PHILIPPUS V D G, crowned shield of Spain / HISPANIARUM REX, arms of Castile and Leon. Calicò tipo 199; KM 308. 5.19gr, 27mm, 1h
Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Spain. Isabel II AE 25 Cent de Real. Dated 1858.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Design by Luis Marchionni Hombrón. ISABEL 2A. POR LA G· DE DIOS Y LA CONST·, laureate head to right, date below / REINA DE LAS ESPAÑAS, UN C.LLO across fields, 25 CENT· DE REAL beneath crowned coat of arms of Spain within wreath. KM# 615; Cal# 587. 9.57gr, 26mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Switzerland AR 2 Francs. Dated 1863.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Mint B (Bern). Design by Ferdinand Korn. HELVETIA , Helvetia seated to left, wearing laurel wreath and toga, with right arm raised, and holding shield with coat of arms of Switzerland in left hand, plow and wheat spikes to the right, mountains behind / Denomination and date within wreath formed of oak and alpine rose branches tied with a ribbon below. HMZ 2 1222; Divo/Tob19 303; KM 10a; Schön 22a; Y 28. 9.72gr, 27mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
United States AR Peace Dollar. Dated 1922.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
IN GOD WE TRUST, radiate bust to left, date below, LIBERTY above / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM, eagle on rock inscribed PEACE; across fields ONE DOLLAR. KM 150. 26.66gr, 38mm, 6h
Good Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Feudal France. Normandy AR Billon Dinar. Circa 1050-1060.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Time of William the Conqueror. Cross with pellet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around / Cross with annulet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around. 0.56gr, 19mm
Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, 1980s. -
Feudal France. Normandy AR Billon Dinar. Circa 1050-1060.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Time of William the Conqueror. Cross with pellet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around / Cross with annulet in each angle within inner circle, remains of legend around. 0.58gr, 19mm
Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, 1980s. -
Crusaders, Achaea (Principality). Guillaume II de Villehardouin BI Denier Tournois. AD 1246-1278.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Clarenzia (Glarentza) mint. ✠ • G • PRINCЄ ACҺ, cross pattée / ✠ 'CLARЄNTIA •, château tournois. CCS 10b (GV 223); Metcalf, Crusades 1995, 939; Tzamalis Type Φ 61. 0.99gr, 18mm, 8h
Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
Crusaders. Bohémond III BI Denier. 1163-1201.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Antioch (Principality) mint. ✠ BOANVNDVS, helmeted head to left, between crescent and star / ✠ ANTIOCHIA, trefoil between I and O, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Metcalf, Crusades, 381; CCS 67b. 0.84gr, 17mm, 5h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Crusaders. Bohémond III BI Denier. 1163-1201.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Antioch (Principality) mint. ✠ BOA[...]VHDVS, helmeted head to left, between crescent and five-pointed star / ✠ ANTIOCHIA, cross pattée, crescent in second angle. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades, class C, 384; cf. CCS 66b. 0.97gr, 17mm, 9h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Crusaders, Edessa (County). Baldwin II AE Follis. Second reign, 1108-1118.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Light Series, Type 2. Struck circa 1114. B-Δ, count standing facing, holding cross and sword / Cross fleuronnée with pellets at the ends and in angles. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 109-12; cf. CCS 10a. 3.31gr, 21mm, 2h
Very Fine. Seemingly overstruck on uncertain undertype.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
England. Stuart, Charles I and Henrietta Maria AR Medal. Dated 1625.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Commemorating the marriage of Charles I to Henrietta Maria. Design by P. Regnier. • CH • MAG • ET • HEN • MA • BRIT • REX • ET • REG, to left, Charles I facing to right, wearing lace collar, to right, Henrietta Maria facing to left; celestial rays above / • FVNDIT • AMOR • LILIA • MIXTA • ROSIS •, Cupid walking to right holding lilies and roses; date below. Eimer 105Ab; MI i 238/1. 1.85gr, 23mm, 12h
Near Very Fine. Pierced.
From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.