Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins
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Greek Bronze Bird Pendant
Geometric Period, 8th-7th century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Modelled in the round with a long beak and splayed, short legs, pierced through the upper body. 14.7 grams, 35 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Greek Black Glazed Terracotta Dish
5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Squat in profile with a rounded rim and flared foot. 149 grams, 10.2 cm wide
Acquired on the London art market. TimeLine Auctions, 4 June 2017, no.1447. Private collection, Suffolk. -
Etruscan Carnelian Scarab with Sphinx in Later Victorian Silver Mount
5th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £350 - 450 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £175
Naturalistically carved scarab on an oval base engraved with a leaping sphinx, set in a later silver brooch mount. 5.12 grams, 36 mm
Acquired on the European art market. -
Greek Bronze Ring with Recumbent Mouse
Circa 3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a D-section hoop and a lentoid bezel with a reclining mouse facing right with its long tail curled above its back. 2.41 grams, 22.24 mm overall, 18.88 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Greek Grey Stone Bifacial Bead with Winged Creature and Star
Circa 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Thick, oval bead showing a star with a raised annulet at the centre, the other side with a winged quadruped, possibly a gryphon. 2.18 grams, 15 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Greek Terracotta Head Collection
Circa 4th-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising four head fragments, one fragment of the upper torso of a male, and a bird fragment. 116 grams total, 37-72 mm
From the collection of a Cambridge, UK, gentleman, by direct descent from his father, who acquired the items in London in circa 1960. -
Greek Geometric Votive Gift in the Form of a Bird
8th century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a columnar neck with pinched detailing to the head and spatulate tail, discoid plate below. 8.47 grams, 46 mm
Acquired from a London auction house, circa 2001. Property of a Swiss gentleman. -
Eastern Greek Variated Agate Scaraboid Gemstone with Birds
6th-4th century B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Scaraboid type with incuse design to the underside of tree-branch with two perching birds; supplied with a museum-quality impression. 4 grams, 19 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Greek Lead Slingshot Bullets
Circa 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Lentoid in plan and in section with low-relief legend to the centre of one face. 62.9 grams total, 29 mm each
Property of a European gentleman, acquired from the estate of a London collector (formed before 2000). -
Greek Terracotta Oil Lamp with Handle
Hellenistic, 2nd-1st century B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Low-relief ovolo decoration on the body with a raised rosette motif on the nozzle, ribbed loop handle to the rear, and an inked collector's note '191' on the base. 53.7 grams, 11.2 cm
From an important collection of lamps, Germany, 1970s. -
Greek Bronze Ring Bezel with Image of a Ptolemaic Queen
Hellenistic, 3rd-2nd century B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Elliptical bezel with high-relief profile bust. 7.26 grams, 22 mm
Acquired on UK art market. Property of a Middlesex gentleman. -
Greek Terracotta Wine Cup with Pellets Representing Bunches of Grapes
Hellenistic, circa 2nd century B.C.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Squat in profile with low foot, sidewall with triangular pellet clusters in swags; carination to inner rim; old collector's label to underside 'Q/15'. 197 grams, 10.9 cm wide
From the collection of the late Bernard C. Pickard, Hampshire, UK, the owner of Bernard C. Pickard Antiquities, which closed in 1987, he had been collecting since the mid 1950s.
Bernard Pickard was a close friend of Richard Hattatt, the renowned author of several books on ancient brooches. Hattatt acknowledges in his first book, Ancient & Romano-British Brooches, published in 1982, that Mr Pickard first aroused his interest in brooches and inspired him in writing his books during his retirement. Mr Pickard also wrote the foreword to the section on Roman animal brooches, op. cit. p.158-160.
