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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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'.

Comprising a sturdy hoop with opposed loop closure, frame of granulated gold collars and rods supporting tubular, cuboid and other beads in amethyst, pearl and other materials. 7.48 grams, 46 mm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

Including female bodies and body parts, some mounted. 581 grams total, 7.7-12.3 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Comprising: a ring brooch with addorsed horse-heads; crescent mount fragment with eagles' claws. 82 grams total, 74-84 mm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Fibula with two spring coils, scooped catch and curved pin. 10.3 grams, 94 mm



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

A stylised horse in profile with ring to the voided eye, exaggerated musculature and hatched detailing; mounted in a custom-made frame. 254 grams total, 18 cm including frame



with Claude Boisgirard Archaelogie, Paris, 9 November 1999, no.56. Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

This applique was probably part of a horse harness and corresponds to various similar plaques produced by the Saka (Scythian) culture of the Pamir. Steppe art favoured animalistic representations, with a predilection for deer, horses, birds of prey and felines. The animals could be represented in series, or alone, or in combat with each other.

Comprising: biconvex juglet with loop handle and U-shaped lip; two with trumpet-shaped mouth and carinated body, strap handle (one absent). 322 grams total, 11.6-13.2 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Comprising a broad crescentic plate with incised border and radiating strokes respecting the concave curve of the blade; knop below the inner edge, short handle with stem and ring formed as addorsed birds; Grotta Gramicella Type A. 33.6 grams, 10.8 cm



Acquired on the European art market, 1990s. English private collection.

Mainly hemispherical types with round rim, one with stub handle; mostly repaired. 876 grams total, 8.5-12.7 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Including fragments of storage vessel, jar, bowl and other items, some with handle and spout elements. 4.55 kg total, 2.6-26 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

With shallow circular bowl and broad rim, stem with slightly domed front face, terminal formed as a duck's head. 179 grams, 24.7 cm



Acquired in 1998. Ex Swiss private collection.

With high tin content, the body formed with a D-section wall and rounded base, damaged. 145 grams, 16 cm wide



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Similar segment-shaped silver bowls, sometimes with partial gilding and decorated on the inside have been found in many nomad mounds of the Caucasus and in the territories once dominated by the Arsacid Empire. They are attributed to Parthian workshops by Pfrommer and M. Treister.

Hollow-formed finial in the form of a ram's head with punched annulet texture detailing. 82 grams, 40 mm

1 1/2 in.

with Herbert A. Cahn, Zurich, Switzerland, 1997. From a private European collection.