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The hoop formed as two snakes each with head and tail on the discoid bezel; skull and crossed long-bones above clasped hands and legend 'Ne M' Oubliez' (Forget Me Not). 14.30 grams, 27.27 mm overall, 18.09 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P 1/2, USA 7 3/4, Europe 16.86, Japan 16)

Private collection, Arundel, West Sussex, UK, 1980s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2104
8
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
Group of rectangular and other green velvet panels and strip with gold-coloured rosettes, foliage and other ornament. 530 grams, 80 x 65 cm

Private collection, Chateau de Frechou, France.
Daguerre Societe de Ventes Volontaires, 21 March 2016, no.4.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

With tabular and annular lapis lazuli beads, gilt beaded collars. 47 grams, 65 cm long

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2106
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
With hexagonal-section shank, collar and round suspension loop; to the circular face an intaglio design of a three-masted warship under sail with pennants to mastheads and with gunports to side; one facet stamped 'H', old collector's inked reference '815'. 5.29 grams, 25.16 mm

Formerly in a significant private English collection of seal matrices formed since 1987.
Ex Horton collection, UK.
Property of a Californian, USA, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2107
7
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Heater-shaped impaled shield composed of lion passant above paly of seven, the right hand side with a central flower, five cross fleury above and three below. 260 grams, 15 cm

Ex private collection, 1970s.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2108
5
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising eleven agate and carnelian intaglios: one with a winged ibex; seven with a profile bust; one with a standing zebu, star above; one with an ibex, and one with a reclining lion; after the antique. 17 grams total, 12-25 mm

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2109
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rectangular in plan with hole below the upper edge, low-relief running horse motif. 55 grams, 57 mm

From a Parisian collection, 1980-2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

A pair of full-length display windows carefully composed from 16th century stained glass including Northern French and Flemish roundels depicting Christian saints, crowned monograms, floral and other motifs. 20.2 kg total, 192 x 44.5 cm each

Constructed by an antiquarian connoisseur, in the late 19th century.
with Galeries de Chartres, 8 March 2009.
Ex central London gallery.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12559-230646.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2111
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Modelled in the round imp in crouching pose on a D-shaped base, hands held before the face; possibly Morris Motor Company mascot from 1930s. 87 grams, 86 mm

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Finely engraved large full-page view map of the city of Cheb/Egra, Czech Republic, showing St Nicolas' Cathedral and other notable landmarks, from Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia", ca. 1560; Latin text to verso describing the town. 58 grams, 41.2 x 28.5 cm

Acquired on the UK art market.
Scottish private collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2113
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Carved in the round crouching figure with phallus above. 1.76 kg, 24.6 cm

Private collection, London.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Lot No. 2114
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising spherical carnelian and banded agate beads with interstitial seed beads. 132 grams, 98 cm long

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

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