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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Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean, Volume 6 - The Egyptian Dynasties 2007 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Norman D. Nicol - Oxford, 2007, hardback with dustwrapper, 82 plates; new. 1.25 kg, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Coinage Reforms (600-603) of Khusru II and the Revolt of Vistahm 2017 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Susan Tyler-Smith - London, 2017, hardback with dustwrapper, 292 pp; new. 1.5 kg total, 30.5 x 22 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 34 - British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins V - Athelstan to the Reform of Edgar 924-c.973 1986 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Marion Archibald & C.E. Blunt - London, 1986, hardback with dustwrapper in shrinkwrap; new. 855 grams, 25.5 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades - Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication no 40 2006 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16
Kenneth A. Sheedy - London, 2006, hardback with dustwrapper, 261 pp, 20 plates; new, small pen mark on dust jacket. 1.35 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards 2000 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Tanne S. Robertson, eds. Richard Hobbs & T.V. Buttrey - London, 2000, hardback with dustwrapper, 520 pp; new. 1.82 kg, 30.5 x 21.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453 in the Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford 2009 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Eleni Lianta - London, 2009, hardback with dustwrapper, 335 pp; new. 1.17 kg, 25.5 x 19.7 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coin Hoards from Roman Britain 1997 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Roger Bland and John Orna-Ornstein - London, 1997, hardback with dustwrapper; new in shrinkwrap. 2.16 kg, 28.5 x 22.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Coin Hoards Volume IX - Greek Hoards 2002 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A. Meadows & U. Wartenberg - London, 2002, hardback with dustwrapper, 308 pp, 66 plates; new. 1.54 kg, 30.5 x 21.5 cm
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Numismatic Books - Celtic Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Coin Titles 1986-2019 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Nummorum Auctiones II - The William L. Subjack Collection of Thrymsas & Sceattas - 5 June 1988; R.D. van Arsdell - The Forgery of the 'Haslemere Hoard' - Ringwood, 1986, card covers, 14 pp (2 copies); Rainer Pudill & Clive Eyre - The Tribes and Coins of Celtic Britain - Witham, 2005, card covers, 81 pp; Chris Rudd - List 50 - Aylsham, Norfolk, 2000, card covers, 28 pp; List 56 - Aylsham, Norfolk, 2001, card covers, 28 pp; List 57 - Aylsham, Norfolk, 2001, card covers, 28 pp; List 64 - Aylsham, Norfolk, 2002, card covers, 40 pp; Chris Rudd - Liz's List no.100 April 2009. 811 grams total, 21 x 16 - 30 x 21 cm
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.