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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
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.jpg "Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis")
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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.jpg "Western Asiatic Alabaster Cylinder Seal")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
With incised design of interlaced parallel bands. 506 grams, 33 mm
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.071.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 25, for type.
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector; collection no.071.
London collection, 2016.
Cf. Teissier, B., Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals in the Marcopoli Collection, Berkeley, 1984, item 25, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Round-section substantial shank with flattened ends, low-relief ribbed collars, snake-head detailing. 173 grams, 90 mm
From a collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
From a collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Restrung group of graduated glass and other beads, mainly oblate and tubular types with dangle centrepiece. 10.6 grams, 33 cm
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Including biconvex, annular, spherical and other types, some with granulation. 7.31 grams total, 1-10 mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s-2000s.
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s-2000s.
Hemispherical in profile with thin sidewall and circumferential lines below the rim. 109 grams, 10.2 cm
From a 1990s German collection.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
From a 1990s German collection.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With a slender hoop supporting a raised conical bezel set with a dark blue glass intaglio. 2.94 grams, 23.66 mm overall, 16.52 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M, USA 6, Europe 12.46, Japan 12)
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Private collection formed since the 1940s.
UK art market.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Penannular in form with tapering finials, D-section shank. 33 grams, 63 mm
Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.
Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.
Comprising a portion of the rim, silver-coloured metal short sidewall and base; rim with vine tendrils, leaves and bunches of grapes modelled in high-relief and extending into the bowl; base with a ring of right-facing male profile busts each within a pelletted hoop, and border of larger pellets below; underside abraded. 132 grams, 13.5 cm
Collected from 1970-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
Collected from 1970-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With collared looped handle, the upper face and handle with punched annulets; intaglio motif of an altar(?) between hatched borders. 19.4 grams, 22 mm
From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva.
From an important collection formed before 1988, London and Geneva.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
With tapering drilled socket. 432 grams, 81 mm
From a 1990s German collection.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXX, no.14, from Mesopotamia.
From a 1990s German collection.
Ex London, UK, gallery.
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXX, no.14, from Mesopotamia.
Modelled in the round with hollow to the underside, two heads on long necks with collars, loop to the rear. 58 grams, 71 mm
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection.
Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection.
Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
Comprising polychrome beads with attractive mosaic and trail designs, some with applied pellets, one with applied eye-motifs; one fragmentary. 78 grams total, 12-32 mm
Collected from 1970-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
Collected from 1970-1999.
From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
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