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'.

Piriform body with domed filler-hole surrounded with impressed petals, band of ring-and-dot motifs to the shoulder; intended to be filled with explosive liquid and wick, used as a hand grenade. 417 grams, 98 mm



From a specialist collection of militaria, London, UK, collected 1990s onwards. Accompanied by an academic paper by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato, dated 15 July 2019 and titled 'Eastern Roman Empire - Greek Fire Bomb or Hand Grenade (μεσαίον kακάβιον) 9th-11th century AD'.

Apart from the use of siphons or manual flame-throwers called cheirosiphona, special corps of Roman soldiers employed terracotta grenades, in the form of small jars, abundantly evidenced in archaeological excavations. They were called μεσαία kακαβιά or κυτροκακάβια where the former had a bulbous shape and the latter a more cylindrical form.

Slender hoop expanding to an oval bezel with hatched border, intaglio motif of a stylised water bird facing right. 2.00 grams, 19.48 mm overall, 16.73 mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2, USA 5, Europe 9.32, Japan 9)



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

Piriform body decorated from concentric circles, with domed filler-hole, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and wick, used as a hand grenade. 1.01 kg, 15 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. Accompanied by an academic paper by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato, dated 15 July 2019 and titled 'Eastern Roman Empire - Greek Fire Bomb or Hand Grenade (μεσαίον kακάβιον) 9th-11th century AD'.

Apart from the use of siphons or manual flame-throwers called cheirosiphona, special corps of Roman soldiers employed terracotta grenades, in the form of small jars, abundantly evidenced in archaeological excavations. They were called μεσαία kακαβιά or κυτροκακάβια where the former had a bulbous shape and the latter a more cylindrical form.

Discoid-shaped with Greek inscription in four lines. 2.01 grams, 13 mm



From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva.

Hollow with three filigree circles to the underside each with scrolled filigree fill, pierced sidewall, three openwork filigree domes to the obverse with granules and a tubular cell to the apex of the lower one. 2.92 grams, 24 mm



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

Donald harden - Glass of the Caesars - Milan, 1987, card covers; Axel von Saldern - Ancient Glass in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston, 1968, card covers; Ancient Glass: The Bomford Collection of Pre-Roman and Roman Glass - Bristol, 1976, card covers. 1.9 kg total, 21.5 x 18 - 26 x 23 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Stuart E. Beck - London, 1939, hardback with cloth covers, 144 pp; examples of military and commercial vessels, short description and illustration of each. 809 grams, 26.5 x 20.7 cm



Property of an Essex gentleman.

G.I. Sokolov - Moscow, 1983, hardback with cloth covers, 154 pp, Russian text. 911 grams, 28 x 21 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

C.F.C. Hawkes & W.R. Hull - Camulodunum. First report on the Excavations at Colchester 1930-1939 - 1947, hardback, cloth covers, 362 pp, 105 plates, fold-out maps. 1.8 kg, 28 x 23 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Ruth Amiran - Jerusalem, 1969 edition, hardback with cloth covers, 306 pp. 1.1 kg, 22 x 28 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Jochen Garbsch - Römische Paraderüstungen - Munchen, 1978, card covers; Christie's South Kensington - Antique Arms and Armour Sale 17 December 2008; Steven Ashley - Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk - Norwich, 2002, card covers; Alan Cherry - A Fine Collection of Ancient and Medieval Arrowheads and Crossbow Bolts - Bournemouth, no date, card covers; MC Bishop & JCN Coulston - Roman Military Equipment, Oxford, 2nd edition 2006, card covers. 2.2 kg total, 24 x 17.5 - 29.5 x 21 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Srdjan Djuric - Toronto, 1995, hardback with cloth covers, 111 pp. 583 grams, 27.5 x 21 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.