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 cut glass molar flasks; chipped. 114 grams total, 27-51 mm



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

Penannular round-section hoop with opposed clubbed terminals. 20.16 grams, 59 mm



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

Graduated group of restrung butterfly-shaped beads with labrys-shaped spacers. 29.8 grams, 37 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising a large quantity of variously shaped beads in lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, glass and other materials. 87.1 grams total, 2-21 mm



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Glass is the premier bead material. Invented in the Middle East around 2500 B. C., glass making spread slowly. There are mainly two types of beads, drawn beads (when the tubes are cut in a short segments, which are usually agitated over heat to smooth off the sharp edges) or wound beads (made by wrapping molten glass around a rock, stick or wire. Once the bead is built up, it can be further pressed or paddled into shape, placed in a mold, or decorated with other colours of glass.

Ellipsoid loop developing to a short shank, biconvex bulb with eight vents and four stub arms, short shank below and lentoid loop with stub arms; possibly a liturgical thurible censer. 31 grams, 75 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.

Matched pair, each a hoop with coil detailing, flat finials joined with a ferrous rivet. 52 grams total, 71-73 mm



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

Carved in the round with sockets to the eyes, drilled ears, wavy beard descending to the chest; genitals and stub legs; peg to top of head and another beneath feet, square panels at the arms; possibly a votive, or one element from a larger frieze. 7.37 grams, 59 mm



From the collection of a London antiquarian, 1980s.

Including tabular, oblate, biconvex, polyhedral and other beads in glass, lapis lazuli, shell, serpentine and other materials. 290 grams total, 1-27 mm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Penannular band with serpent-head finials. 29 grams, 68 mm



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

One ellipsoid with dense calligraphic text to the underside, the other octagonal with looser epigraphy. 7.59 grams total, 20-21 mm



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

Restrung; composed of opaque and translucent glass beads in various shades of blue, graduated in size and including spherical, tubular, disc and other types. 7.41 grams, 43 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

Barrel-shaped hoop with ellipsoid bezel, incuse gryphon standing in profile; Eastern Greek. 5.42 grams, 21.89 mm overall, 17.64 mm internal diameter (approximate size British K 1/2, USA 5 1/2, Europe 10.58, Japan 10)



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