Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

SOTHEBY'S: Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art, Amsterdam, 17 May 1993; Colonnade, Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain & Works of Art, London, 12 November 1996; Japanese Works of Art, London, 10 April 1997; Japanese Swords and Tsuba from the Professor A.Z. Freeman and the Phyllis Sharpe Memorial Collections, London, 10 April 1997; Japanese Prints, Paintings and Works of Art, London, 18 June 1997; Japanese Prints, Paintings and Works of Art, London, 19 November 1997; Inro From The Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, New York, 25 March 1998; Japanese Works of Art, New York, 25 March 1998; Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, London, 7-8 April 1998; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 17 June 1999; Japanese Works of Art, New York, 14 September 1999; Japanese Works of Art, Prints and Paintings, London, 18 November 1999; CHRISTIE'S: Fine Japanese Works of Art, London, 23 June 1987; Japanese Works of Art, London, 9-10 November 1988; Export Art of China and Japan, The China Trade Sale, London, 7 April 1997; GLERUM: VOC Veiling, 7 May 2002; SPINK: The Arts of Japan, London, 22 March 1990. 8.3 kg total, 25.5 x 20 - 29.3 x 21 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

C.S. Lightfoot - Ennion, Master of Roman Glass - New York, 2014, card covers, 160 pp, colour; Journal of Glass Studies Vol 51 - New York, 2009, card covers, 271 p, colour; S.M. Goldstein et al - Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking - New York, 1982, card covers,140 pp, colour; Christie's London Sale Ancient Glass from the Kofler-Truniger Collection Tuesday 5th march- Wednesday 6th March 1985 - harback with dustwrapper, 175 pp, colour, fold-out plate and folded-in estimate list; D. Whitehouse - Glass - A Short History - London, 2012, card covers, 128 pp, monochrome; A. von Saldern - Glasammlung Hentrich: Antike und Islam - Dusseldorf, 1974, card covers, 29 pp, colour and monochrome; Corning Museum of Glass - A Decade of Glass Collecting - New York, 1962, card covers, 64 pp, momochrome. 4.45 kg total, 23 x 17.2 - 27 x 23.7 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

T.J. Dunbain - The Western Greeks, The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C., 1948, hardcover, 502 pp, Exhibition Catalogue - Greek Art of the Aegean Islands, November 1, 1979-February 10, 1980, cardcovers, 238 pp, black and white images; Kanon, Festschrift Ernst Berger, in German, 1988, hardcover, 380 pp; Kanon, Festschrift Ernst Berger, in German, 1988, hardcover, 104 pp, black and white images. 4.42 kg total, 24.8 x 17 - 28.5 x 23 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Calcoen, B., TT176. The Tomb Chapel of Userhat, London, 2012, 34 pp, card covers, 23 colour and monochrome plates; Manniche, L., Lost Ramessid and Post-Ramessid Private Tombs in the Theban Necropolis, Copenhagen, 2011, 112 pp, hardback with dust jacket, monochrome; Raven, M.J., The Tomb of Maya and Meryt II. Objects and Skeletal Remains, Leiden-London, 2011, 109 pp, 57 plates, hardback, monochrome and colour; Shedid, A.G., Seidel, M., The Tomb of Nakht: The Art and History of an Eighteenth Dynasty Official’s Tomb at Western Thebes, Mainz, 1996, 83 pp, hardback, colour. 2.77 kg total, 23.5 x 21.5 - 25.5 x 31.9 cm



Ex libris a Hertfordshire gentleman.

SOTHEBY’S: Important Americana, January 24-27, 1990; English and Continental Ceramics, October 9 & 10, 1990; Property from the collection of Mr. J.W. Griffith, Friday, October 15, 1993; Collection de Madame Barbara Piasecka Johnson, Mobilier, Sculptures et objects d’Art, Orfevrerie, Ceramiques et Dessins Anciens provenant de sa residence de Monaco, Mercredi 15 Octobre 2003; Important Americana from the collection of Diane and Norman Bernstein, The Lindens, Washington DC, January 22, 2006; Old Master Paintings, European Sculpture & Antiquities, 4 June 2009; the Collection of Patricia Kluge, 8 & 9 June 2010; Fine English Furniture, Ceramic & Carpets, 22 October 2010; Property from the collection of Dodie Rosekrans, 8 & 9 December 2011; Luxe Art of Design European Decorative Arts & 20th Century Design, 20 & 22 April 2018; CHRISTIE’S: Fine English Furniture and Objects of Art, including Chinese Export Porcelain from Matthew and Elisabeth Sharpe, Friday-Saturday October 14-15, 1994; Important French and Continental Furniture, Porcelain and Carpets, Wednesday 24 May 2000; European and Asian Furniture, Decorative Arts, and Carpets including a Selection of Miniature and Child’s Furniture, Wednesday 28 June 2000; Scientific and Engineering Works of Art, Medical Instruments and Models, Tuesday 17 October 2000; Syd Levethan: the Longridge Collection Monday 24 January 2011; Une exceptionelle collection mise en scene par Emilio Terry, Paris, Jeudi 16 septembre 2016; Noble & Private Collections, 2-3 November 2016; Noble & Private Collections, 25-26 April 2017; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume II, English and European Furniture, Ceramics and decorations, Wednesday, 09 May 2018; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume V, English and European Furniture, Ceramics and decorations, Thursday, 10 May 2018; The collection of Peggy and David Rockfeller, volume VI, travel and Americana, Thursday, 10 May 2018; NEW HAMPSHIRE WEEKEND AUCTION: The Estate of Madeline Whitney Shea, March 4 2001; DOYLE: The Marguerite Dorment Collection, Wednesday May 23, 2001; PIERRE BERGE & ASSOCIES: Bibliotheque de l’Egyptologue Roger Khawam, Jeudi 29 Novembre 2012; FRANK STERNBERG: Antike Munzen, Griechen-Romer, Byzantinische Munzen und Bleisiegel, Renaissance Medaillen, Geschnittene Steine und Schmuck der Antike; Antike Bronzen – Figuren and Objeckte; Gold und Silbermunzen 14-20 Jh., Numismatische Literature: Antike bis Neuzeit; Auktion XXV, am 25 und 26 November 1991; ELLE DÉCOR: Winter Antiques Show, a benefit for East Side House Settlement, 50th Anniversary, January 16-25, 2004. 24 kg total, 21 x 17 - 29.7 x 23 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

J.A. Sakellarakis et al. - Tainia - Band I: Text, Mainz, 1980, 541 pp, hardback with cloth covers; Band II: Tafeln, hardback with cloth covers. 100 monochrome plates. 3.23 kg total, 30.2 x 21.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Each of the four lobes with an emerging foliate decoration flanking a central cross, attachment loops on the underside. 9.82 grams, 33 mm



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

Comprising: a discoid lamp with low-relief branch motif surrounding the filler hole; a piriform lamp with a channel connecting the filler hole and nozzle, a low relief scene of a hound chasing a hare on both side of the filler hole, the base with a spoked wheel motif. 180 grams total, 84-88 mm



with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.

Piriform body with raised rim around the filler hole and rounded nozzle, raised frond decoration to the shoulder, and a basal ring. 46.6 grams, 76 mm



From a collection of lamps of a late Scottish gentleman, 1970-1990s.

D-section hoop and a circular bezel with a stylised eagle looking left. 5.82 grams, 23.22 mm overall, 18.70 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Piriform in profile with a domed filler hole, linear decoration and a band of impressed lozenges with a cross motif on the shoulder; intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as a hand grenade. 374 grams, 10.5 cm



From an important specialist collection, London, UK, 1990s. 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'.

Apart from the use of siphons or manual flame-throwers called cheirosiphona, special corps of Roman soldiers employed terracotta grenades, in the form of small jars, abundantly evidenced in archaeological excavations. They were called μεσαία kακαβιά or κυτροκακάβια where the former had a bulbous shape and the latter a more cylindrical form.

D-section hoop with raised circular bezel showing a stylised walking bird with four stars on the field. 6.20 grams, 25.12 mm overall, 17.93 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L 1/2, USA 6, Europe 11.87, Japan 11)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.