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'.

Sheet-silver pyxis with tapering sides and slightly curved base, everted rim; discoid lid with lip, impressed cruciform design with zigzags in the quadrants; sidewall with impressed frieze of leopards in profile, ring-and-dot and chased detailing to fur. 50 grams, 87 mm high



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

Discoid in plan with basal ring and shallow dished face. 669 grams, 16.7 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.

Modelled sitting erect with left hand placed flat against his back; triangular head with low-relief eyes and mouth, knop ears and pointed chin; seated with erect penis on a low stool with everted feet; mounted on a custom-made stand. 77.3 grams total, 76 mm including stand



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.

Aviform seal with segmented body and wings, reserved pellet eye; mounted in a modern wooden frame with fabric backing, signed 'K.Tubby' bottom right. 216 grams total, 17.8 cm including frame



Ex London, UK, gallery, 1971-early 2000s. Property of a London gentleman.

Pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to two broad faces and one edge. 27 grams, 36 mm



From specialised collection of cuneiform texts, formed in the 1950s-1990s. The property of a London gentleman and housed in London, thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and 1990s. The collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.

Discoid in plan with basal ring and shallow dished face. 2.05 kg, 21.7 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.

With a ribbed hoop, the bezel formed of seven circlets with central pellets, arranged as a six-petalled flower. 5.59 grams, 22.79 mm overall, 18.72 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Miniature paper Qur'an, each page with dense Nasta'liq text in black ink with a red double-border and green outer border; decorative title page with floral ornament and liquid gold; several pages of handwritten notes at the end; probably from North Africa. 55 grams, 86 x 86 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016.

Mainly pottery and some glass, annular, tubular, fusiform and other types. 43.6 grams total, 2-20 mm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising: one with a flat-section hoop with incised decoration to the expanding shoulders, square bezel set with carnelian; one with a D-section hoop with expanding shoulders, discoid bezel with inscription. 13.74 grams total, 22-24 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Drum-shaped mortar with chipped rim; pestle with ribbed grip. 2.06 kg total, 10.5-19 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.

With incuse frieze depicting a male figure holding a sceptre between two rampant stags; behind, a second pair of rampant beasts (probably lions) fighting; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 16.7 grams, 28 mm



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