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'.

Marc Rosenberg - title + 24 pp, 86 pasted monochrome photographic plates, half-calf binding with gilt edging and tooling. gilt titling to spine, edge-gilding to pages; some abrasion to spine and corners. 2.05 kg total, 35 x 26 cm



Ex central London gallery.

John Boardman - Archaic Greek gems - Evanston, 1968, hardback with dustwrapper; Antique Intaglios in the Hermitage Collection - Leningrad, 1976, hardback with cloth covers in slip case. 2.9 kg total, 18 x 14 - 28 x 21 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Susan Youngs (ed.) - The Work of Angels - London, 1989, card covers; Ordnance Survey Map of Southern Britain in the Iron Age - card covers; Later Prehistoric Antiquities of the British Isles - London, 1953, hardback. 1.39 kg, 28.5 x 22 - 21.5 x 14cm



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Various authors, Een Eigenzinnig Verzamelaar: De Collectie Karel Azijnman (1876-1936), Nordbrabants Museum, 1989; pictorial paperback; fully illustrated. 385 grams, 27 x 20 cm

Near new condition.

Ex libris a Suffolk gentleman.

Edit B.-Thomas - Archäologische Funde in Ungarn - Budapest, 1956, hardback with cloth covers, 425 pp, foldout maps; René Huyghe - Larousse Encyclopaedia of Byzantine and Medieval Art - New York, 1963 edition, hardback with dustwrapper, 416 pp, some water damage; Walters Art Gallery - Painted Enamels of Limoges - Baltimore, 1968, card covers, 34 plates; Spink London - Byzantine Seals sale 7th October 1998. 4.7 kg total, 27 x 21.5 - 33 x 25.5 cm



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John W. Hayes - Roman Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, 1976, hardback with cloth covers, 69 pp, 40 plates; John W. Hayes - Etruscan and Italic Pottery in the Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto, 1985, card covers, 195 pp; Basil Petrakos - National Museum Sculpture, Bronzes, Vases - Athens, 1981, card covers, 191 pp; Judith Perlzweig (ed.) - Lamps from the Athenian Agora - Princeton, 1963, card covers, 32 pp; Dorothy Burr Thompson - Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora - Princeton, 1959, card covers, 32pp; Dorothy Burr Thompson - An Ancient Shopping Centre: The Athenian Agora - Princeton, 1971, card covers, 32 pp; Brian A, Sparkes & Lucy Talcott - Pots and Pans of Classical Athens - Princeton, 1977, card covers, 32 pp. 2.2 kg total, 22 x 14 - 31 x 23.5 cm



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Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 1984, card covers; Phillips - Tribal Art and Antiquities London 11 April 2001; Christie's London - Fine Antiquities 16 July 1985; W.A. Jackson - The Victorian Chemist and Druggist - Princes Risborough, 1981, card covers; Jeannine Auboyer et al - Asia - Fribourg, 1978, hardback; Pierre Amiet et al - Antiquity - Fribourg, 1981, hardback. 2.8 kg total, 22 x 12 - 27 x 22 cm



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F.H. Marshall - London, 1969, hardback with dustwrapper, 400 pp, 73 plates. 2.6 kg, 28.5 x 23.5 cm



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Rudolf Duda & Lubos Rejl - Minerals of the World - Twickenham, 1986, hardback; John Sinkankas - Gem Cuttings: A Lapidary's manual - Princeton, 1962, second edition, hardback; Mineralogical Record Vol.IV-4, Vol.V-1, 2, 4, 5, 6; J.R. Earp & B.A. Hains - British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland - London, 1971, card covers. 4.5 kg total, 24.5 x 15.5 - 30 x 21.5 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

C.M. Johns & T.W. Potter - The Canterbury Late Roman Treasure - London, 1985 (offprint), card covers; Roger Bland & Catherine Johns - The Hoxne Treasure: An Illustrated Introduction - London, 1993, card covers; Cornelius Vermeule - Greek and Roman Sculpture in Gold and Silver - Boston, 1974, card covers; R.L.S. Bruce Mitford - Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain - London, 1971 reprint, card covers; Filippo Coarelli - Greek and Roman Jewellery - London, 1966, hardback with dustwrapper. 1.1 kg total, 19.5 x 14 - 25 x 19 cm



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Ivan Venedikov & Todor Gerassimov - Thracian Art Treasures - Sofia, 1975, hardback with cloth covers; L'Or des Cavaliers Thraces: Tresors de Bulgarie - Montreal, 1987, card covers; M.C. Шемаханская - Mеталлы и вещи, Moscow, 2015, hardback, Anna Raduntscheva - Vorhistorische Plastik - Sofia, 1981, card covers; Treasures from Romania - London, 1971, card covers. 5.1 kg total, 20 x 13.5 - 34 x 29.5 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Сокровища Кипра/Treasures of Cyprus - Moscow, 1976, hardback with cloth covers, 23 pp, 22 plates; Harvey Weiss et al. - Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria - Washington, 1985, card covers, 542 pp; P.R.S. Mooney et al. - Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals - Los Angeles, 1981, card covers, 271 pp. 3.6 kg total, 23 x 21.5 - 29.5 x 22.5 cm



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