Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History & Coins

With intaglio laurel wreath; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 0.18 grams, 7.35 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Comprising a tapering body with a Corinthian capital finial, a standing female figure atop the capital, dressed in long robes. 16 grams, 98 mm



Acquired in the 1980s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

The pin seems to belong to the group 18 of the Cool's classification. The treatment of the figures in these pins varies greatly, including both the very 'Celtic' looking face on a pin from Cirencester and a Graeco-Roman figure type of Venus standing on a Corinthian capital from London. This great diversity of treatments clearly suggests that these pins were the occasional products of a wide variety of workshops.

With intaglio putto sitting on a chalice, objects in the field; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 1.07 grams. 14.07 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Left hand holding one handle of a two-handled chalice. 18.71 grams, 31.16 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

With intaglio Jupiter holding his sceptre, eagle by his feet; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 0.52 grams, 10.61 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Comprising a round disc with raised concentric circles and a central six-petalled flower motif with a pointed centre; underside with a four-way strap junction. 16.6 grams, 28.6 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Fragments of wall plaster with rendered surface painted with mainly Pompeii red, pale blue and white detailing; some with impression of timber laths to the reverse. 713 grams total, 7-10 cm



Acquired in the 19th century. Ex Jeger collection, Switzerland. UK gallery, early 2000s.

These small fragments, for analogies with the fragments of Pompeii, seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting, red panels representing highlight and shadow, decorated with vegetal interlaces. Some panels were probably framed by a red grenade fillet. A fragment shows alternate blue and red colour over a cream background, maybe pertinent to a socle.

Penannular body divided into sections with linear and ring-and-dot decoration. 31.67 grams, 65 mm



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

California Studies in Classical Antiquity, Volume 3, 1970, hardcover, 227 pp, black and white images; Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, 1995, cardcovers, 162 pp, colour images; Wadsworth Atheneum, Museum of Art, Uncommon Legacy, 2017, cardcovers, 154 pp, colour images; The Vatican Collections, The Papacy and Art, 1982, cardcovers, 255 pp, black and white and colour images; A.J. Heisserer (ed.) - Classical Antiquities, the Collection of the Stovall Museum of Science and History, the University of Oklahoma, 1986, hardcover with dustjacket, 162 pp, black and white images; San Antonio Museum of Art, the First Ten Years, hardcover with dustjacket, 79 pp, colour images; Brooklyn Museum, Collecting for the Future, A Decade of Acquisition Highlights, 2012, cardcovers, 145 pp, colour images. 5.82 kg total, 26 x 18 - 28 x 22 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Luxor Museum of Ancient Egyptian Art - Catalogue - Cairo, 1979, hardback, 219 pp, monochrome; Museum of Fine Arts - Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 BC - Boston, 1982, card covers, 336 pp, monochrome; I.E.S. Edwards - Tutankhamum: His Tomb and its Treasures - New York, 1977, hardback with dustwrapper, 256 pp, colour and monochrome; M.d'Alton - The New York Obelisk - New York, 1993, hardback, 72 pp, monochrome; C.K. Wilkinson - Edyptian wall Paintings - New York, 1983, card covers, 163 pp, monochrome; Metropolitan Museum of Art - Treasues of Tutankhamun - New York, 1976, card covers, 174 pp, monochrome and colour; D. Wildung - Egyptian Art in Berlin - Berlin, 1994. card covers, 59 pp, colour. 5.94 kg total, 23 x 21 - 29 x 22.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Karl Reichhold - Skizzenbuch Griechischer Meister, 1919, in German, hardcover, 167 pp, black and white images; A.S. Murray, LL. D. - Greek Bronzes, London, 1898, hardcover, 104 pp, black and white images; Max Imdahl & Norbert Kunisch - Plastik, Antike und Moderne Kunst der Sammlung Dierichs in der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1979, hardcover with dustwrapper, 189 pp, colour and black and white images; Nicholas Chr. Stampolidis, Peggy Sotirakopoulou - Aegean Waves, Artworks of the Early Cycladic Culture in the Museum of Cycladic Arts at Athens, 2007, cardcovers, 213 pp, black and white and colour images; Dimitrios Pandermalis - Alexander the Great, Treasures from an epic Era of Hellenism, 2004, cardcovers, 151 pp, colour images; Margarete Bieber - The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, 1955, hardcover, 232 pp, 712 black and white figs. 6.9 kg total, 25.6 x 18.5 - 30.5 x 23.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Brunilde S. Ridgway- Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of Ca. 331-200 B.C. - Madison, 1990 hardback with dustwrapper, 405 pp, 187 plates, monochrome; J.C. Carter - The Sculpture of the Sanctuary of Athena Polias at Priene - London, 1983, hardback with dustwrapper, 367 pp, 47 plates, monochrome; P.W. Lehamann - The Pedimental Sculptures of the Hieron in Samothrace - New York, n.d., hardback with cloth covers and library sleeve, 30 pp, 60 plates, momochrome; A.H. Smith - A Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum Vol II - London, 1900, hardback with cloth covers, 264 pp, 27 plates, text figurres, monochrome; B. Asmole - The Classical Ideal in Greek Sculpture - Cincinnati, 1964, card covers, 47 pp, 69 monochrome illustrations; A. Stewart - Attika - London, 1979, card covers, 192 pp, monochrome; T. Burton-Brown - On early Sculpture - Wootton Woodstock, 1984, card covers, 42 pp. 5.35 kg total, 21 x 15 - 27.7 x 22.5 cm



Property of a London, UK, gentleman.