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'.

Matched pair, each a penannular band with vertical keel and incised tendril ornament, flared finials. 177 grams total, 54-57 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

With drum-shaped body, broad neck, everted rim; long, deep U-sectioned integral spout; band of incised parallel lines to the shoulder and beneath the spout. 706 grams, 24.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Including tabular, tubular, annular, oblate and other beads in glass, agate, lapis lazuli and other materials. 154 grams total, 1-29 mm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Sheet gold tapering sleeve with loop and applied granule clusters, inset turquoise bead; Assyrian workmanship. 1.24 grams, 30 mm



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

With broad shank and ellipsoid bezel, incuse profile stag within a cartouche. 6.90 grams, 27.45 mm overall, 18.22 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Hollow-formed and wearing a peaked headdress, left hand clasping her breast, emphasised facial detailing. 135 grams, 16 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Steatite or talc with two columns of cuneiform text, un-drilled: -num, son of Ad-da-al(?)-a/za(?); possibly unfinished. 6.06 grams, 30 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector, collection no.083. London collection, 2016.

Comprising a slender bronze hoop expanding at the shoulders, silver intaglio with an inscription in three lines. 1.56 grams, 17.76 mm overall, 15.90 mm internal diameter (approximate size British D, USA 1 3/4, Europe 1.15, Japan 1)



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With a long tapering shank, poppy-head terminal with three projecting lobes, incised chevrons in between the lobes. 80 grams, 17 cm



Acquired on the UK art market before 2000; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Distaff with spiral slot to the thicker end, separate domed whorl and tapering shank. 60 grams, 32 cm



Collected from 1969-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

Spindle whorls are one of the most durable traces of textile craft in the archaeological record. They can be found in copious quantities and diverse types. Whorls in the shape of discs, cylinders and cones of clay, bone, stone and other more precious materials are widespread in all areas and periods, evidencing the skills of craftswomen engaged in textile production.

Each a tapering shank with graduated bulbs to the middle. 14.9 grams total, 39-42 mm



UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London gentleman.

Comprising polished and 'natural' beads of mainly melon, facetted bicone and oval types. 50.8 grams total, 11-25 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.