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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Penannular in form with tapering finials, D-section shank. 33 grams, 63 mm



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.

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.

With tapering drilled socket. 432 grams, 81 mm



From a 1990s German collection. Ex London, UK, gallery.

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.

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.