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'.

Penannular in form with the shank formed as a bar twisted about its own axis, the ends tapering to a square butt. 29 grams, 71 mm



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

With flared shoulders and square bezel; reserved foliage detailing on a nielloed field; inset lapis lazuli cloison with intaglio lion couchant. 9.26 grams, 24.76 mm overall, 16.76 mm internal diameter (approximate size British M 1/2, USA 6 1/4, Europe 13.09, Japan 12)



From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Openwork cage of D-shaped bars with loop to one end and radiating spiked knop to the other; rumbler ball inside. 186 grams total, 85 mm



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

Composed of mainly opaque and translucent beads, graduated in size and in various shades of blue and green, including oblate, rounded and other types. 4.49 grams, 47 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Each a round-section shank with opposed beast-head finials. 119 grams total, 72 mm each



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

Miniature votive plough-team with two oxen yoked to a plough with ploughman behind. 16.2 grams, 38 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.

Biconvex globular body with broad neck, everted rim, two ledge handles below the equator, band of pointillé to the neck and shoulder. 785 grams, 18 cm high



From a family collection pre 1988.

Including discoid, octagonal and arabesque types with calligraphic text. 16.5 grams total, 22-23 mm



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

Squat-bodied with carination to the shoulder and everted rim, central flat discoid base. 142 grams, 13.7 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Carved in the round with two large voided bulbs on a tapering shank; mounted on a stand with old label 'Ex Prof.Karl Lunde, NYC / Ex Arte Primitivo'. 48.5 grams total, 32 mm high (52 mm wide including stand)



Ex Prof Karl Lunde, New York, U.S.A. Ex Arte Primitivo. 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.

Drum-shaped in profile with rounded rim. 493 grams, 11.1 cm wide



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 a restrung necklace of patinated carnelian disc beads with central larger stone bead, separated by tiny glass spacers between and modern screw clasp. 18 grams, 52 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.