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 a D-section hoop, oval bezel with intaglio motif of an advancing zebu bull advancing left. 5.19 grams, 23.86 mm overall, 19.24 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O 1/2, USA 7 1/4, Europe 15.61, Japan 15)



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Square in plan with slightly domed obverse, image of fish and bird with Kufic text and pellet clusters, border with text and rosettes. 49.8 grams, 50 x 49 mm



with a London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.

A broad carinated bowl with radiating repoussé panels, central roundel, carination below the rim; cracked. 242 grams, 18.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Tubular with slightly flared rim and expanding towards the base, carinated with a raised basal ring. 147 grams, 91 mm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With tapering round-section shank, stepped profile to the upper section and biconvex bulb; divergent antenna arms above. 60 grams total, 22.5 cm



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

With incised frieze of birds and animals in a landscape, guilloche borders above and below. 4.6 grams, 24 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.015. London collection, 2016.

One plano-convex disc, pierced, with geometric motif; one similar with scooped indents, cross motif. 9.66 grams total, 16-18 mm



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

Squat and with sloping sidewall, carinated foot and flat basal disc. 80 grams, 83 mm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Cylindrical in form with narrow neck and head of Pazuzu above; frieze of two figures and a pillar with crescent above; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 8.05 grams, 27 mm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising beads of various types and sizes, including carnelian, quartz, agate and glass examples, together with spherical, oval, facetted, coin, drum and other shapes. 186 grams total, 6-37 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Graduated group of mainly annular and oblate beads in various materials, centrepiece a tabular stone with concentric circle motif to each face. 24.9 grams, 43.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Restrung group of graduated beads, mainly oblate and annular types with melon centrepiece. 12.4 grams, 33.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.