A hand-crafted silver crown with fleur-de-lys and cruciform upstands with inset cabochons, rolled rim with band of pointillé above; assayed November 2014; supplied with explanatory note from the maker, the potter Billy Biles, who held the record for pot-throwing. 279 grams, 19.5 cm



Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.

Parchment patent document made out to William Robert Lake, numbered 4561-75, for 'improvements in machinery for manufacturing cigars', with attached original patent seal of Queen Victoria housed in a metal discoid lidded container; the whole in a lined wooden box with hinged lid and locking mechanism, with the royal arms in gilt on the lid. 1.52 kg, 29 x 22.2 cm



Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Comprising a mustard glazed biconical pot with tripod feet, a squat brown-glazed pot with loop handle and a broad pot with carinated profile and two loop handles to the shoulder. 3.25 kg total, 24-26 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. Ex East Anglian private collection.

Comprising: two slender unguentaria with flared rims, one squat in profile with bulbous body and dimple base, flared rim pinched into undulations, and other types; after the antique; one repaired. 450 grams total, 7.8-13.4 cm



From the private collection of Victor Brox, UK.

With fleur-de-lys to each corner, central figure of a street vendor with ribbons, arquebusier marching, seated figure carving with a small knife. 1.12 kg total, 13 cm



European art market, 1990s. Private collection, London.

Figure modelled in the round, the upper body a phallus, the lower body wearing a tunic and in a dancing pose, after the antique; mounted on a custom-made stand. 374 grams, 15.5 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.

In antiquity the phallic upper part would normally have have been covered by a separate bell-shaped casting of a grotesque figure wearing a waist-length hooded cape, probably inside a Gallo-Roman bronze statuette of the fertility god Priapus.

Each composed of an oblong base adorned with filigree and granules, a couchant lion modelled in the round on top, ear hook with decoratively twisted lower body. 9.06 grams total, 35 mm each



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Flat-section hoop supporting a rectangular bezel with flared sidewall, inset cabochon above. 0.91 grams, 20.81 mm overall, 14.98 mm internal diameter (approximate size British H, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.18, Japan 6)



Ex London, UK, collection, before 2000. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.

Composed of facetted cornerless cube-shaped beads interspersed with small cylindrical beads. 38 grams, 42 cm



Ex London art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Discoid in plan with recess to upper face, stamped markings including dagger, crowned G and others. 453 grams, 70 mm



From a private Barnsley, UK, family collection.

Including tap and spile with screw thread, bullet, harness fittings and other items. 1.67 kg total, 21-89 mm



Ex Stocker collection, Kent, UK, 1955-early 2000s.

With hollow sockets to the eyes, top ends of longbones flanking the mandible. 18.5 grams, 26 mm



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