Including knee, trumpet and other types. 76 grams total, 34-55 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 a discoid base. 26.9 grams, 38 mm

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

With large piriform body and dimpled base; funicular, waisted neck and rolled rim. 85 grams, 19 cm high

Acquired in the 1970s, thence by descent 2012.
Private UK collection, Cambridge, UK.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.

An extremely rare aulos or tibia with round-section body, six circular holes to one side and a D-shaped hole to the reverse. 87 grams, 23 cmFine condition. Extremely rare.

From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-1990s.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11055-184396.

See Daremberg, C.V. & Saglio, E. (eds.), Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines, Paris, 1873-1917, fig.6965; see a cast of the Roman flute from Pompeii, in the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (inventory 1916.07.0011); Wardle, M.A., Musical Instruments in the Roman World, London, 1981, for iconography (pp.35ff., 115ff. and especially pl.22), and original specimens from Pompeii, pls.1-2; the closest parallel in Palagyi, T., Facsady, A., Romains de Hongrie, Lyon, 2002, p.117, fig.259 (bronze tibia from Pannonia, Savaria, today Szombathely).

The flute was used for religious ceremonies and for entertainment. The pyrrhic, a war dance of Doric origin, was a rapid dance to the double flute, and made to resemble an action in battle.

Rectangular with raised rim and reserved inscription 'M.I.L'; repaired handle to the reverse. 23 grams, 40 mm

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

Cf. Beutler, F. et al., Der Adler Roms. Carnuntum und der Armee der Cäsaren, Bad-Deutsch Altenberg, 2017, item 89, for type.

Kräftig profilierte 'anchor' type, with a broad plaque in front of the spring and pin, trumpet-type bow with lateral flukes and central knop, D-section collar, scooped footplate with disc and knops, catch to the rear. 21.5 grams, 35 mm

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

Cf. Bayley, J., Butcher, S., Roman Brooches in Britain, London, 2004, figs.39-42.

Squat with squared rim, three stub feet, hole to base. 371 grams, 16.2 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.

Iridescent glass with impressed image of opposed male and female busts. 0.68 grams, 16 mm

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

Comprising: vesica-shaped bezel with incise togate standing figure with sceptre; ellipsoid bezel with profile bust. 4.51 grams total, 20-21 mm

Property of the vendor's grandfather, thence by family descent, circa 1985.
From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman.

With an expanding flat-section hoop, hatching to the shoulders, wide bezel with an upright palm branch. 3.00 grams, 20.28 mm overall, 17.34 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)

Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Of fusiform type with a rolled lip and thick rounded bottom; repaired. 43 grams, 25.2 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.

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession numbers 81.10.52 and 81.10.53, for similar examples.

Formed as a twisted square-section shank with granule clusters to the shoulders, ellipsoid plaque with beaded wire cell and inset aqua glass cabochon with incuse rectangle motif. 2.39 grams, 21.87 mm overall, 18.10 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)

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