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'.

Pontil base of a pale blue-aqua glass vessel; painted frieze of opposed perching birds, interposed floral motifs. 51.1 grams, 87 mm



From the collection of Mr N.A., Brussels, 1970s.

Restrung group of mainly annular beads with a teardrop dangle centrepiece. 8.52 grams, 39.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.

With barrel-shaped upper and tapering body, modelled with coil detailing around the upper body, tiered rings above and finial of an ibex's head with horns returned to form a collar; mounted on a custom-made stand. 347 grams total, 25.5 cm 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.

Comprising: six specimens with a tapering round-section shank, balustered finial topped with a conical head, fastening holes; four specimens with tapering round section, poppy-shaped head and flared collar beneath. 714 grams total, 14.1-41.7 cm



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

According to the study of Moorey, the knobbed pins from Iran are documented from the earliest periods of metallurgy, increasing in quantity during the late 2nd millennium, to reach the peak of the production from the early 1st millennium. Pins were used as hair and clothing fasteners, but it is not excluded that they could have been used by women as personal means of defence in dangerous situations.

With frieze of antelopes and a tree. 1.78 grams, 22 mm



Acquired 1970s-1996. Property of a North American collector; collection no.021. London collection, 2016.

The polished plano-convex body drilled for suspension, the ram depicted couchant facing left to base. 3.19 grams, 17 mm



Collected since the 1970s. Ex Everitt collection, acquired by descent 2017.

Including Indus Valley type figure, various heads and other body parts. 623 grams total, 21-94 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.

Loose paper leaf with handwritten text in Naskh script, thirteen lines of text to each side, red and blue inked rings as punctuation, decorative inset panel with red-ink text, marginal arabesque painted motif; one long edge reinforced, edges chipped. 6 grams, 34 cm



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

Pillow-shaped with cuneiform text to both broad faces and one long edge. 87 grams, 71 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.

Flat bead formed from two sheets of gold, discoid with a trapezoidal spur to each end. 3.01 grams, 35 mm



From a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.

With ovate body and tapering neck and socketed mouth, strap handle to rear, spout with mouflon detailing; mounted on a stand. 215 grams total, 12.5 cm 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.

Biconvex in profile with rounded underside and broad mouth; repoussé rosettes to the shoulder, and larger rosette to the base; slightly everted rim. 183 grams, 11.5 cm



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.