SOTHEBY PARKE BERNET (HONG KONG) LTD. IN ASSOCIATION WITH LANE CRAWFORD LTD: Fine Jade Carvings, Rugs and Works of Art, 1 November 1974; Important Chinese Jade Carvings, 2 December 1976; Fine Chinese Jade Carvings, 17 May 1977; Fine Chinese Jades and Works of Art, 30 November 1980; SOTHEBY'S HONG KONG: Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 21 November 1985; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jade Jewellery, 20 May 1986; Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Works of Art, 22 May 1986; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jade Jewellery, 19 November 1986; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades & Jade Jewellery, 20 and 21 May 1987; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 21 May 1987; Important Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art, Jades and Jadeite Jewellery, 24 and 25 November 1987; Fine Jadeite Jewellery, Jade carvings and Hardstones, 17 and 18 May 1989; Fine Chinese Ceramics, 14 November 10989; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 15 November 1989; Fine Jadeite Jewellery, Jade Carvings and Works of Art, 15 and 16 November 1989; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 15 May 1990; Fine Jade carvings and Jadeite Jewellery, 16 May 1990; Fine Modern Chinese Ceramics, 13 November 1990; Fine Chinese Ceramics, 13 November 1990; The Goldschmidt Collection of Qing Imperial Porcelain, 13 November 1990; Fine Chinese Works of Art, jade Carvings and Jadeite Jewellery, 14 November 1990; Fine Modern Chinese Paintings, 15 November 1990; Fine Modern and Contemporary Chinese Paintings, 27 and 28 October 1993; Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Jade Carvings, 5 and 6 November 1996; An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and Other Ceramics, 5 November 1996; Magnificent Jadeite Jewels, 6 November 1996; Important Jadeite Jewels, 30 April 1997; An Extraordinary Collection of Ming and Qing Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art from a Private Trust, 29 October 2000; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 October 2000; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 29 October 2001; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 7 May 2002; Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 30 October 2002; Eight Treasures from a European Collection, 8 April 2009. 20 kg total, 24.4 x 18 - 27.5 x 22 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

BRUUN RASMUSSEN: Fine Art and Antiques, December 2010; Fine Art and Antiques, May 2011; POOK & POOK: Period Furniture, Fine Art and Accessories, Downingtown, 26-26 April, 2014; PALACIO DO CORREIO VELHO: Importante Leilao, Coleccao do Antiquario Jose Rosa, Portugal, 19-20 July 2011; STOCKHOLMS AUKTIONSVERK: Stora Kvaliten, 23-24 November 1999; NORDEN AUKTIONER: Art and Antiques, International Autumn Sale, Stockholm, 25-26 November 1999; BUKOWSKIS: Internationella Höstauktion, 24-26 November 1999; Klassiska Auktion, 27 November-5 December 2010; Klassiska, 14-17 June 2011; SOTHEBY'S: The G.S. Mottershead Collection, Belgravia, 8 March 1979; Important Americana, New York, 25-26 January 2013; The Dimitri Mavrommatis Collection, London, 8 July 2008; CHRISTIE'S: Simon Sainsbury, the Creation of an English Arcadia, Volume I, 18 June 2008; The Exceptional Sale 2011; London, 7 July 2011; Important American Silver, Furniture, Folk Art, Prints, English Pottery and Chinese Export Art, New York, 24-25, 28 January 2013; European Noble and Private Collections, London, 2 October 2013; Oeuvres Modernes Sur Papier, Paris, 26 March 2014; European Noble and Private Collections, London, 16-17 April 2014; An American Dynasty - The Clark Family Treasures, New York, 18 June 2014; The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, London, 8-9 and 17 July 2014; Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, 2004; Robert Bowman Ltd, 19th and Early 20th Century Sculpture- Power and Passion, London, 2000-2001; Richard Philip, Heads & Figures, 2001; Trevor Philip & Sons, A Measure of Time, 25th Anniversary, (no date); Trevor Philip & Sons, Of Heaven & Earth, (no date). 30 kg total, 21 x 19.8 - 30 x 23.2 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Mauro Cristofani - Civilta Dergli Etruschi, 1985, hardcover with dustwrapper, 433 pp, colour and black and white images; Exhibition Catalogue - Etruscan Pottery: The Meeting of Greece and Etruria, The Trout Gallery, 27 January- 16 March 1984, cardcover, 60 pp, black and white images; Etruscans: Italy's Lovers of Life, 1995, hardcover, 168 pp, colour images; Massimo Pallottino - The Great Centuries of Painting, Etruscan Painting, 1952, hardcover, 140 pp, colour images. 4.47 kg total, 28.5 x 21.8 - 28.2 x 25.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

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.

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.