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'.

Including fragments of storage vessel, bowl and other items, some with painted ornament, some with handle and rim elements. 3.9 kg total, 2.5-22 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.

Standing on a rectangular base with head erect, painted harness detailing to the head; mounted on a custom-made stand. 291 grams total, 90 mm wide including stand



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 a thin-walled bowl with painted motifs, an amphora with 'attached' handles and a small oinochoe decorated with circlets. 812 grams total, 7.7-16.5 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.

The objects are proto-white painted pottery, with abstract linear lines and drawings, and circlets. The design of the pots and vessels followed local traditions, but as an island with links stretching across the Eastern Mediterranean, Levantine and Aegean coasts, Cyprus was influenced by foreign ceramic fashions of the time. The beautiful concentric circles were reminiscent of the sun; careful horizontal and vertical lines intersecting each other forming a graphic landscape.

Group of terracotta heads from figurines, one with moulded facial detailing, the others pinched. 476 grams total, 4.5-10.5 cm



One with antique tag: 'CYPRUS / C.1000 BC / Terracotta Fragment of / Mother-Goddess.' 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.

Group of three spherical jugs each with a tall neck and lateral loop handle; two with second smaller loop to the other side. 878 grams total, 9.8-15 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.

Tapering round-section votive with reserved zigzag bands of dense linear hatching; remains of an old base including label. 70 grams total, 14 cm high including stand



From the celebrated personal collection of art formed by the famous anthropologist, artist, and television presenter Desmond Morris. with Christie’s, South Kensington, 14 May 2002, no.19 (part). 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. Accompanied by copies of the relevant Christie's catalogue pages.

With ellipsoid plaque, applied silver-gilt central boss flanked by two applied crescents. 3.89 grams, 19.00 mm overall, 16.00 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J, USA 4 3/4, Europe 8.69, Japan 8)



From an old UK collection, 1980s.

Bulbous vessel with narrow neck, broad rim to the mouth and short strap handle to the rear; circumferential rings of pellets and horizontal bands to the body, rosette to the rim, wave pattern to the shoulder; foot absent. 36 grams, 61 mm



Ex H. Norry collection, 1980s-1990s.

From the 8th century B.C. Corinthian pottery vessels were exported to Greek colonies in South Italy and the coast of Asia Minor. They were used to hold perfumed oil, an essential item for the wealthy middle classes of the time. In Italy, especially in Etruria, local workshops produced imitations of Corinthian vessel types for a clientele of Greek settlers and local populations with a taste for Greek fashions.

Silver tetradrachm with profile bust to obverse, seated figure with bird to reverse; clasp-mounted in a modern silver frame with ring and baile. 21.1 grams, 41 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Modelled in the round with wrinkled brow, sloping eyebrows, thick nose and pellet eyes with discoid surrounds, small pouting mouth. 44 grams, 45 mm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Modelled in the round with elongated neck and applied saddle to the rump; repaired. 95 grams, 10.2 cm wide



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.

Biconvex in profile with small flared foot, trumpet-shaped mouth and two lateral loop handles to the shoulder; painted ring and geometric detailing; repaired. 509 grams, 15.5 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.