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'.

Drum-shaped bowl with pierced lugs to the rim and omega-shaped handle; fragmentary. 317 grams, 13.5 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.

Restrung designer necklace of graduated annular and tubular beads with a milky blue oval pendant. 15.07 grams, 38 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With long slender neck and everted rim. 37 grams, 12.5 cm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.

Modelled standing, wearing a loosely draped himation hanging from the right shoulder, the folds gathered at the left forearm raised to support a patera; mounted on a custom-made stand. 118 grams total, 96 mm 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.

A genius was a local spirit or supernatural helper whose favour could be requested with a libation or small offering.

Carved in the round in good quality marble, with plump cheeks, a flat nose and lentoid sockets at the eyes, the hair modelled in a chignon, small socket at the right ear; mounted on a custom-made stand. 230 grams total, 12 cm including stand



London art market, 1992.

The eyes have been prepared to accept silver or other inserts, and the ear likewise would have been provided with a model earring.

With broad rounded plaque and stud gemstone, jasper intaglio advancing hound on a baseline. 9.84 grams, 24.22 mm overall, 16.72 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I, USA 4 1/4, Europe 7.44, Japan 7)



Private collection, England.

Single-edged iron blade with ellipsoid-section bronze handle, openwork acanthus-leaf finial, bands of loose crosshatching to both faces. 62 grams, 13.5 cm



Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Sheet gold dangle with loop above. 0.34 grams, 13 mm



Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970-2000s.

Restrung group of beads, mainly tubular and annular types with plano-convex centrepiece. 22.05 grams, 38 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising: one with round-section hoop with the ends wound around the hoop; one with a flat-section body with the ends wound around the body, punched decoration to the upper surface; one with a round-section penannular body, the terminals formed as large stylised serpent heads with pellet eyes and raised crest. 21.5 grams total, 51-66 mm



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

Section of the rim with carination below, high-relief dolphin with its tail curled over above its head. 77 grams, 13 cm



From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s.

Openwork body with a shield design; pin and catchplate to the reverse. 10.3 grams, 33 mm



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