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'.

Including a squat dipper cup with applied boss to the shoulder, a jar with rounded underside, and other types. 780 grams total, 8-16 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.

Tubular in form with tapering profile and collar above the socket. 455 grams, 82 mm



Ex London, UK, gentleman's collection, 1990s.

Composed mainly of cream-coloured restrung stone and shell beads of amorphous, annular, spherical, barrel-shaped and other types. 19.3 grams, 48 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Similar beads were found during the excavations of the royal tombs of Nimrud. Thousands of beads were discovered in the sarcophagi, including those of Nimrud’s Queens; they probably originally formed part of wide collars with multiple strands.

Piriform with vertical socket expanding towards the narrower end. 439 grams, 80 mm



Ex London, UK, gentleman's collection, 1990s.

Comprising two carved architectural fragments: a plaque with reserved foliage, and a corbel with leaves and tendrils. 4.79 kg total, 18 cm each



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.

Squat in profile with bulbous body and flared base, stepped shoulder and tapering neck with pinched rim; turquoise-coloured dip-glaze. 191 grams, 10 cm



Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Substantial penannular form, barrel-shaped in section with raised panel at the apex and 'twist' detailing. 68.6 grams, 68 mm



Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1975-late 1990s.

With lateral curled horns and wedge-shaped muzzle, ribbed loop to the rear. 11.8 grams, 28 mm



From an old English collection, 1990s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Donut-shaped and drilled vertically to accommodate a wooden shaft. 328 grams, 69 mm



Ex London, UK, gentleman's collection, 1990s.

Substantial D-section hoop with hatching at the ends and incised ring-and-dot eyes. 282 grams, 78 mm



From a collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

With incised linear ornament and drilled pellets. 6.3 grams, 32 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.22. London collection, 2016.

Comprising beads in various materials and shapes, including some larger beads. 58 grams total, 2-39 mm



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