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'.

With shallow bow and hinged pin to the reverse, scooped foot with knop finial; Aucissa type. 15.8 grams, 66 mm



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

Discoid with raised rim, impressed image of an ibis advancing. 1 grams, 16 mm



Collected from 1970-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

Square in plan, some with incised markings, one with impressed hole. 95 grams total, 8-25 mm



Ex Simmons gallery, London, UK. From a North London collection, 1990s.

Restrung group of graduated tubular beads. 8.76 grams, 46.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Mixed group of ceramic fragments including rooftiles, rim-sherds and other items. 2.3 kg total, 1.6-12.4 cm



Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector.

Discoid with integral loop, impressed image of an advancing lion below a crescent with star above. 1.81 grams, 24 mm



Collected from 1970-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

Shallow discus with concentric circles and a raised pellets, a lug on each side of the nozzle; triangular reflector with foliate; concentric circles to the base; repaired. 90 grams, 11.9 cm



Ex Mothersole collection, Scotland, 1970s.

Restrung group of fusiform, annular and seed beads with a large oblate centrepiece. 22.9 grams, 47 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Each a D-section hoop with the tapering ends coiled about the shank. 62.6 grams total, 66-71 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Restrung group of mainly annular beads with square-section bead dangle. 17.9 grams, 35 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With openwork body formed of volute scrolls; pin-lugs and catchplate to the reverse. 8.2 grams, 31 mm



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

Comprising a round-section arm with pierced lug finial, notches to the upper face, suspension ring, counter weight formed as stylised head with gaping mouth and bowl-cut hair. 86 grams, 11.8 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.