Comprising two cross pommée pendants, one with ring-and-dot motifs and the other with pointillé decoration. 8.54 grams total, 34-39 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

A large bulbous missile with impressed chevron motifs to the shoulder, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as a hand grenade. 1.51 kg, 16 cm



From an important specialist collection, London, UK, 1990s onwards. Accompanied by an academic paper by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato, dated 15 July 2019 and titled 'Eastern Roman Empire - Greek Fire Bomb or Hand Grenade (μεσαίον kακάβιον) 9th-11th century AD'. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

With a flat-section hoop with polychrome marvering on black glass, applied twisted polychrome bands to the edges. 28.6 grams, 84 mm



Private Collection S.D., New Jersey, USA, acquired prior to 1997. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

D-shaped amuletic pendant with pierced lug suspension: obverse a bird with omega; reverse a hatched pillar with rings. 1.74 grams, 22 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

A large pririform missile with mushroom-shaped filler-hole, impressed floral motifs to the body, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and wick, used as a hand grenade. 910 grams, 17.4 cm



From an important specialist collection, London, UK, 1990s onwards. Accompanied by an academic paper by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato, dated 15 July 2019 and titled 'Eastern Roman Empire - Greek Fire Bomb or Hand Grenade (μεσαίον kακάβιον) 9th-11th century AD'. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

K.B. Trever & B.G.Pykonin - Moscow, 1987, hardback with dustwrapper, 15 pp, 124 colour plates. 1.15 kg, 21.3 x 29.7 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

André Parrot - The Arts of Assyria - Mew York. 1961, hardback with dustwrapper, 378 pp. monochrome, foldout map; E. Gubel (ed) - In de Schaduw van Babel / A l'ombre de Babel - Brussels, 1995, card covers, 182 pp, monochrome, foldout map, French and Dutch text; Irene J. Winter - A Decorated Breastplate from Hasanlu - Philadelphia, 1980, card covers, 39 pp, monochrome plates, foldout line drawing; Iran - Irene J. Winter, Benjamin Rowland - Art in Afghanistan - Objects from the Kabul Museum - London, 1971, hardback with dustwrapper, 93 pp, 314 monochrome plates. 4.7 kg total, 19 x 28 - 22 x 28.5 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

Roman Ghirshman - Perse: Proto-Iraniens, Medes, Achaemenides - Paris, 1963, hardback with dustwrapper, 441 pp, maps, colour and monochrome images; James Allan - Islamic Ceramics - Oxford, 1991, card covers, 79 pp, map, colour images; Yosef Garfinkel - The Yarmukians - Jerusalem, 1999, card covers, 96 pp, colour images; Ariadne Galleries - Idols: Beginning of Abstract Form - catalogue, New York, 190, card covers, 123 pp, monochrome images; Y.H.Safadi - Islamic Calligraphy - London, 1978, card covers, 144 pp, monochrome images. 3.9kg total. 15 x 21 - 22 x 28cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

F.D. Friedman - Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience - London, 1998, hardback with dustwrapper, 288 pp, card covers; Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from Collectors and Collections - Basel, n.d., card covers, 222 pp, colour; Peter Clayton - Chronicle of the Pharaohs - London, 2001, hardback with dustwrapper, 224 pp, monochrome; D.L. Thompson - Mummy Portraits - n.d., card covers, 70 pp, colour; J.H. Taylor - Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt - London, 2001, card covers, 272 pp, colour; P. Lacovera & B.T. Trope (eds) - The Collector's Eye - Atlanta, 2001. card covers, 170 pp, colour. 6.5 kg total, 20 x 26 - 24 x 31 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

Boris Piotrovsky et al. - Oxford, 1987, hardback with dustwrapper, 183 pp, colour. 1.53 kg, 25 x 35 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

Joan Aruz et al. - New York, 2006, card covers, 243 pp, monochrome & colour. 2.12 kg, 24 x 31.5 cm



Property of a North West London gentleman.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1874 - brown cloth boards (disbound), titled in gilt on front cover and spine, folio, moulded ornament to covers; twenty albumen prints, each approx. 10 x 7½ in., mounted on card with printed descriptive text; title page with photographer's credit; folded in: a small hand-drawn watercolour necklace and drop earring initialled 'C.I'; a larger watercolour on card, also initialled 'C.I'; spine torn; rare. 1.74 kg, 34 x 46 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Alessandro Castellani (2 February 1823 – 10 June 1883) was a goldsmith, antique dealer and art collector from a notable Italian family of goldsmiths and antique dealers.