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Oval intaglio with a thunderbolt with four flashes of lightning radiating from it. 0.59 grams, 12 mm



Acquired in Greenwich Village, November 1960, for 10 shillings. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by an old handwritten information card by Peter Clayton, collection no.76.

Plate brooch formed as a gammadion with four spurs at the hub, hook to the reverse; with broken pin. 12.6 grams, 32 mm



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

Comprising: a carved female face in three-quarter view with luxuriant curls of hair, on a black glass field. 3.70 grams total, 21 mm



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

Carved in a gripping position, semi-naturalistic detailing to the knuckles and nail beds, clenched around a shaft, a spear, or possibly a scroll. 83.7 grams, 61 mm



From a private collection formed 2000s. Acquired at auction in the UK.

Bulbous body with a tubular neck and an everted rim. 7.13 grams, 79 mm



Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s.

Discoid type with stub nozzle and pierced lug handle; running scrolls to the shoulder, discus with bust of Jupiter above a bird with spread wings; cross and other symbols to the underside, central 'I' mark in the footring. 30.2 grams, 67 mm



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

Ellipsoid in plan with intaglio Athena standing wearing a crested helmet, holding a spear and with a shield by her lower leg; supplied with an impression. 0.27 grams, 11 mm



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

Discoid clay mould with an impressed design of a coin on each face. 6.05 grams, 27 mm



London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent.

Comprising: an oil lamp fragment with a stub handle at the rear, the rim with a frieze of bearded profile busts, the discus with a seated figure facing; the other fragment with a raised ledge below, the rim with a frieze of bearded profile busts alternating with amphorae, discus showing the lower part of a folded garment(?). 123 grams total, 59-12.2 cm



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

Comprising mainly oblate beads, restrung with an elasticated string. 8.09 grams, 16.6 cm



Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private collection.

Comprising two cuboid dice with ring-and-dot markings disposed 1:6, 2:5, 3:4. 5.82 grams total, 11 mm each



Ex Essex gentleman, previously in a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman's collection.

Carved in three-quarter view, with hair dressed in a chignon with frontal band and wavy segments; soft facial features with much detailing remaining to the proper right eye and mouth; likely a frieze fragment; mounted on an old collector's display stand with typed label 'Marble, woman's head / Egypt / C.25-100 A.D. / Cat.No. 6169'. 8.45 kg, 39 cm high



Acquired in trade from the San Franciscanum Museum, Israel, prior to 1980. with Archaeologia, pre 1983, Switzerland and Canada. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.12964-242755.

The arrangement of the hair is characteristic of female portraits dating between the late Severan and Tetrarchic periods. The head, due to the treatment of the hair, finds comparisons with a female portrait in the Museo Nazionale Romano, depicting an elderly woman of the Antonine era, and with another female portrait in the same museum, dated to the third decade of the 3rd century A.D., reworked in the Tetrarchic period, and which showed a Severan so-called Nest Frisur hairstyle. The sculpture in question can therefore be dated between the 3rd century A.D. and the first decades of the 4th century A.D. based on the hairstyle, the shape of the eyes and the eyebrows.