Ancient Art, Antiquities, Books, Natural History, Stamps & Coins

Comprising seven bifacial clasps showing Classical motifs, including Alexander the Great, Colossus of Rhodes, a Greek warship, and others. 874 grams total, 82-83 mm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.

Composed of small, annular turquoise, green and other beads. 4.71 grams, 36 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Comprising: a single-edged knife with a ring handle; a copper-alloy spoon, with partially silvered handle marked AmeΛbku; a substantial bronze ladle with segmented handle, bulbous bowl with pouring lip and body decorated by lozenges, finial of a sitting male with arms folded across the knees, trapezoidal panel to the rear with suspension ring. 346 grams total, 23.5-34 cm



Acquired on the UK art market since the 1960s. From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s.

Two miniature carvings worked from fruit stones, one extensively carved with scrolling foliage and floral ornament, creating an openwork pattern across its surface, an integral bridge behind forming a loop; the other carved in relief with a bird among foliage. 1.41 grams total, 20-22 mm



Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.

Comprising: sturdy hardwood shaft with ferrule and two brass collars; balustered socket to head with flat-section cross bearing restrained geometric decoration to both faces, domed studs, reserved 'IHS' monogram on a pounced tondo to obverse. 4.9 kg, 242 cm long



Donated by Anne Read 17th May 1889. Acquired on the UK art market. From the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.

Including piriform vase with ribbed decoration, and other items. 1.7 kg total, 16.5 - 16 cm



Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.

Comprising four large domed gaming pieces with carved linear decoration, three with a flower motif at the top of the dome and one with two opposing pelta motifs. 290 grams total, 33-43 mm



Private collection, London, UK.

Slender tubular glazed ceramic vessel with ribbed neck and base, loop handle; vertical columns of low-relief floral, foliate and tendril ornament with double-headed spread eagles, heraldic shields, facing masks, facing armoured figure with leged 'E.K. Carolvs' and scroll with '1581' legend. 1.41 kg, 32.7 cm



From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

Comprising: 'The Shadow of Opposition' etching, published 31 March 1788 by Thomas Cornell, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f', a satire on the Foxite Opposition, with the motto 'Stat Magni Nominis Umbra' and the verses 'Each Patriots Speech another Speech affords / The C—ns have their Echo in the L—ds'; 'The Managers in Distress, etching, published 11 April 1788 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street, monogrammed in the plate 'JS f' a satire on Burke, Fox and the other managers of the Warren Hastings impeachment, shown falling from a collapsing bridge: 'D—n the Piers they won't support us', punning on the House of Lords 'Peers'; both mounted. 282 grams total, 32.5 x 32 - 35 x 30 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Harwich, UK, collector.

Sayers was one of the leading political caricaturists of the 1780s, a supporter of Pitt, and best known for his attacks on Fox and the Hastings prosecution. Both prints were published by Thomas Cornell, Sayers's regular publisher, within a fortnight of each other during the early months of the Hastings trial.

Comprising: rectangular fragment with upper body of a Greek lady holding up a jar and reed-pipe, head of another before her balancing a tray with folded cloth; upper body of a woman in profile with arms extended placing a casket on a table; architrave with decorative border and door, head of a lady adjusting her diadem and chald behind her. 600 grams total, 11-20.6 cm



Acquired at auction in Geneva or Basel circa 1989. From the private collection of a Swiss gentleman collector, thence by decent 2018.

Oval seal matrix with a domed casing with a small central flower surrounded by radiating lines, set with a milky glass intaglio depicting a Julio-Claudian figure, draped and facing left; accompanied by a museum-quality impression. 4.89 grams, 21 mm



Found whilst searching with a metal detector in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.KENT-371880.

Large lamp with basal ring, the discus with a young warrior gripping the reins of a horse. 114 grams, 12.3 cm



From an important German collection, 1970s onwards.