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'.

Armand Neven - Etudes d'Art Lamaïque et de l'Himalaya - Bruxelles, 1978, card coves; Marilyn Jenkins & Manuel Keene - Islamic Jewelry in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, 1982, card cover (damaged); Lawrence Smith (ed.) = Ukiyoe: Images of Unknown Japan - London, 1988, card covers; Victoria & Albert Museum - Mount Trust Collection of Chinese Art - London, 1970, card covers. 2.4 kg total, 24.5 x 18.5 - 30 x 21 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

O.M. Dalton - London, 1912, hardback with cloth covers, 366 pp, 30 plates; usage wear. 1.6 kg, 25.5 x 19.5 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Hans Henning von der Osten - Chicago, 1934, hardback with cloth covers, 204 pp, 41 plates. 1.5 kg. 31.5 x 24 cm



Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Adolf Heyden & Julius Lessing - Verlag von Paul Bette, Berlin, 1883 - title + 15 pp, 25 heavy card plates with glassine paper interleaves, half-calf binding with tooling, gilt titling to spine; edges and corners scuffed, small loss to spine, light water damage to bottom edge of papers. 9.5 kg, 61 x 47.5 cm



Ex central London gallery.

With incised braided design forming diamond-shape hatching. 10.9 grams, 29 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector, collection no.055. London collection, 2016.

Hemispherical in profile with broad discoid foot; raised from a single bronze sheet. 184 grams, 12 cm diameter



Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. Property of a London gentleman.

Modelled in the round, including a polished hound with inlaid eyes. 53 grams total, 27-50 mm



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.

Columnar and tapering in form with rounded ends, reserved vertical rib and circle forming a 'phi' symbol. 3.52 kg, 34 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.

Comprising beads in various materials including ceramic, lapis lazuli, glass, and stone. 61 grams total, 2-32 mm



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

Restrung group of graduated annular trade beads in various materials. 23.9 grams, 62 cm long



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Standing with left front leg slightly bent, crested head, detailed muzzle, raised tail, loop to the back; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 43 grams, 58 mm



with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.

Pendants in the form of animals, mostly goats or mouflons, but also horses or other equids, are quite common among the corpus of the Luristan pendants.

Hollow-formed with voids and scroll detailing, ferrous shank. 52 grams, 75 mm



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.