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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World War I. Victory and Peace AR Commemorative Medallion. Dated 1919.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
VICTORY and PEACE in ribbons above and beneath a dove flying to left holding olive branch; all within laurel wreath. 4.49gr, 27mm
Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George V AR Jubilee Medal. 1910-1935.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Design by Percy Metcalfe. VI. MAII. MCMX MCMXXXV, crowned and draped conjoined busts to left / STET FORTUNA DOMUS, view of Windsor Castle. W&E 5668A.3; Eimer 2029a; BHM 4249. 15.00gr, 32mm, 12h
Near Mint State.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
George V and Queen Mary Jubilee Medal Group. 1910-1935.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: various issues and types including a George V medallion celebrating birth, marriage, and accession in 1910. 54.26gr total, 24-32mm
Fine - Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector -
Great Britain. George V AR Jubilee Medal. 1910-1935.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Design by Percy Metcalfe. VI MAII MCMX MCMXXXV, conjoined crowned busts of the King and Queen Mary to left / STET FORTUNA DOMUS, view of Windsor Castle. Eimer 2029a; BHM 4249. 15.59gr, 32mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Commemorative Medals - Great Britain. George V and Queen Mary, Kensington AR Silver Jubilee Medal. 1935.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
KING . GEORGE . V & . QUEEN . MARY . SILVER JUBILEE ., crowned busts of King George V & Queen Mary facing to left / THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON, arms with dates flanking. 16.45gr, 38mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Pierced.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Windsor, Edward VIII, as Prince of Wales AR 'Investiture' Medal. 1911-1936.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
London mint. Dated 13 July 1911. Design by Sir W. Goscombe John. INVESTITVRE • OF • EDWARD • PRINCE • OF • WALES • K • G, youthful crowned bust facing slightly to left, wearing coronation regalia; CARN- -ARVON IVLY • XIII MCMXI in two lines across fields / TУWУSOG • CУMRU • M • G • • ARWISGIAD • IORWERTH, view of Caernarfon Castle, seen from Afon Seiont, at dawn with rays in background; above, crowned plumes within Garter; GoRPHENAF MCMXI in two lines in right field; in exergue, Y Ddraig Goch (Welsh Dragon). Giordano CM23b; BHM 4079; Eimer 1925. 22.05gr, 34mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Beautifully toned with golden and blue iridescence around the devices.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of a Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Windsor, George VI with Elizabeth AR Coronation Medal. 1936-1952.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
London mint. Dated 12 May 1937. Design by Percy Metcalfe. GEORGE VI CROWNED 12 MAY 1937, crowned bust of King George VI to left; P M in small lettering on shoulder / QUEEN ELIZABETH 12 MAY 1937, crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth to left; P M in small lettering on shoulder. BHM 4314; Eimer 2046a. 15.65gr, 31mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. Windsor, George VI with Elizabeth AR Coronation Medal. 1936-1952.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
London mint. Dated 12 May 1937. Design by Percy Metcalfe. GEORGE VI CROWNED 12 MAY 1937, crowned bust of King George VI to left; P M in small lettering on shoulder / QUEEN ELIZABETH 12 MAY 1937, crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth to left; P M in small lettering on shoulder. BHM 4314; Eimer 2046a. 15.80gr, 31mm, 12h
Extremely fine. Toned.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Great Britain. George VI AE Coronation Medal. Dated 1937.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH, crowned busts of King George and Elizabeth to left / CROWNED A.D.1937, Britannia standing facing, holding flag with left hand and crown with right, all between arched pillars; St. Paul's and ship across water behind. BHM 486. 47.88gr, 44mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Elizabeth II Gilt Medal Group. 1935-1972.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: silver jubilee medal with 20 November 1947 - 1972, and two coronation medallions dated 1953. 55.73gr total, 33-52mm
Extremely Fine - Uncirculated.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector. -
Mixed AE Medallion Group. 1853-1960.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: various issues and types including a Papal medal by Aurelio Mistruzzi for Pius XII, a French medallion dated 1853 with bust of Napoleon I, a medallion for Prince Imperial, son of Napoleon III, and a pewter issue. 31.06gr total, 39-23mm
Fair - Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector -
Great Britain. Charles, Prince of Wales AE Investiture Medal. Dated 1969.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Design by M. Rizzello. ARWISGIAD CHARLES TYWYSOG CYMRU . CAERNARFON 1969 ., bareheaded bust to right / Y DDRAIG GOCH DDYRY CYCHWYN, Welsh dragon prancing to left. Eimer 2116b. 27.14gr, 31mm, 12h
Uncirculated.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.