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'.

Tapering tubular pot with trumpet-shaped mouth, raised collars to neck and base, undulating snake motifs; applicator with handle formed as three radiating lobes. 46 grams, 11.1 cm



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

Pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to both broad faces and one long edge; part of one face absent. 58 grams, 58 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.

Restrung group of tubular beads with irregular dangle centrepiece. 11.2 grams, 43 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Comprising one discoid with inscription, the other rectangular with 'VH' (or HΛ) to one side and the other with 'ΦΦ'. 3.5 grams total, 12 mm each



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

Wire dangle with beaded collars and biconvex and other glass beads. 0.96 grams, 21 mm



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

Loose paper pages with handwritten text in Naskh script, thirteen lines of text to each side, red and blue inked rings as punctuation, decorative side-panel with perpendicular text; torn at the central fold, edges chipped. 11 grams, 34.5 x 43 cm



From the private collection of M. Cummings, Lincolnshire, UK, 1990s.

Comprising small vessels including a miniature plate. 104 grams total, 30-40 mm



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

Including ribbed, annular, fusiform and other types, some with granulation. 7.63 grams total, 3-11 mm



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

Formed as two bronze rods twisted about their own axis and looped at the ends, knotted forming the centrepiece. 334 grams, 10 cm



Private UK collection. Acquired in the 1980s. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.

D-section hoop with finials formed as opposed serpent-heads. 54 grams, 74 mm



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

Trefoil head of a dress pin with large dished roundel at the top and two smaller ones to the sides. 27 grams, 13.3 cm



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

Modelled in the round figure with flared foot, stylised anthropomorphic or theriomorphic figure with amphora and mounting peg to reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand. 163 grams total, 92 mm high 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.