Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Large Canopic Jar Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,820
A large limestone canopic jar lid of human-headed Imsety, protector of the liver, wearing bag wig and false beard; painted details to the eyes, eyebrow and beard; socket to the base for insertion into jar. -
Egyptian Stela with Hieroglyphic Inscription
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,812
A limestone stela with rounded top and flat sides; to the top the winged sun-disc of Ra Horakhty with uraei framing the disc of the sun; below, the owner with broad collar and long kilt, one hand raised in prayer, the other holding an offering vessel; in the centre a large offering table heaped with food and flowers; in front of the offering table the figure of Osiris standing on plinth with mummiform body and wearing the White Crown of Lower Egypt, hands extended forward holding a staff topped by the ankh and djed symbols, wearing broad collar with large menat counterpoise behind; columns of hieroglyphs behind the figures, two large was sceptres flanking the scene; below, four horizontal columns of hieroglyphs beginning on the right with an offering formula to Osiris and the owner's name, a priestly treasurer, and the name of his mother; vertical columns of hieroglyphs to the sides of the stela. -
Greek Hellenistic Gilt Silver Bowl with Complex Ornament
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,600
A shallow silver bowl with thickened chamfered rim, concentric gilt bands, one with reserve scrolled vines with bunches of grapes on a textured field; central disc with octofoil and four radiating leaves, coiled tendrils on a pointillé textured field with running wave border. -
Greek Large Scythian Gold Ritual Vessel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £27,280
A large gold vessel weighing almost half a kilogram of gold; of a conical shape, beaten from a single sheet; pinched at two points on the rim to form a pair of spouts; tapering to the flat base; small hole to the bottom; possibly used for ritual purposes after victory. -
Greek Bead with Satyr Holding Kantharos
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,464
A carnelian bead with one flat and one domed face, intaglio reclining satyr, nude, resting on a ropework border, with kantharos held in one hand. -
Viking Coin, Bar and Hack Money 'Hoard' Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,400
A mixed group of silver items in a ceramic pot forming a hoard, comprising: thirty 'hacked' items including a spoon, a crystal pendant, three earrings, a bracelet and five fragments, seven finger rings and fragments; eighty eight hacked ingots and fragments, some with incisions indicating how they should be divided; forty seven casting sprue and spillage elements; two hundred and fourteen dirhem coins of various types, three pierced for suspension; forty three hacked dirhem coins and fragments; with the ceramic pot in which they were found. -
Medieval Gold Devotional Ring with Icons
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,160
A substantial gold finger ring with D-section hoop and facetted bezel; the underside with faux barley twist detailing, the shoulders with niello-inlaid curlicues and blackletter text 'Deus meus mecum est' translating to My God is with me', and facetted plaque with niello-inlaid image of Christ on the cross surmounted by a nimbate face, flanked by nimbate figures; blackletter text to the inner face '.Dominus.regit.me / et.nichil.michl.deerit' which translates to 'The Lord guides me and nothing shall I lack'. -
Tudor Armorial Ring for Johann Ernst I, Related to Anne of Cleves, Wife of King Henry VIII of England
Sold for (Inc. bp): £68,200
An important gold and rock crystal signet ring, the property of Johann Ernst, von Sachsen, Julich, Kleve and Berg; the oval bezel inset with painted foil-backed rock crystal heraldic intaglio seal depicting his conjoined coats of arms surmounted with six visored helmet crests comprising: a bull's head, twin horns, mitre cap, jester, griffin and peacock tail representing the Duchies of Kleve-Mark, Thuringen, Sachsen, Meissen, Julich and Berg; with inscription below the arms: v(on) G(ottes) G(naden) Johan Ernst H(erzog) Z(u) S(achsen) J(ulich) C(leve) u(nd) B(erg); the shoulders with black enamel inlaid scroll and foliate decoration extending to fleurs at reverse of bezel. -
Viking Double-Edged Sword
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,168
A hand-forged double-edge sword with gently tapering blade and broad, rounded point; the hilt fittings of Petersen's Type H with narrow (65mm) lower guard and large D-shaped pommel; the blade with deep fuller to each face, of piled construction with broad, flat-section tang; the lower guard scaphoid in plan with inlaid copper-alloy wires in parallel vertical lines; the upper guard secured to the pommel with two pins to the underside. -
Scandinavian Viking Massive Danish Broad Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,968
A hand-forged iron broad axehead of symmetrical profile with reinforced curved cutting edge, triangular-section socket with flanking spurs to upper and lower edges; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Western Asiatic Pre-Achaemenid Phiale Mesomphalos for Unsak, King of Samati
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,320
A silver lotus bowl with fluted underside and chamfered rim, central boss with raised image of a feline curled with the forelegs and hindlegs opposed; accompanied by an original inked translation page, and a copy of a scholarly note, typed and signed by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham, 1970-1993, which states: "Ancient Iranian Silver Vessel, 23cm diameter at rim, 5.7cm [corrected from 7.4] high. On the base of this vessel, on the outside, there is a central dot surrounded by a rough circle of scallops done in double incised lines. Beyond this, around the belly of the vessel, are 12 [corrected from '11'] gadroons, hammered out , and between them 'stalks' rising and becoming opening buds with chased decoration at the top of this area of the vessel. On the outer rim there are three bands of incised lines. Inside the vessel in the middle there is a handle fixed, formed of a knob of massive silver, the top decorated with a lion, whose body curls around so that the head if [sic, for 'is'] close to the tail. On the inner rim there is an inscription in Neo-Elamite cuneiform: ͫun-sa-ak sunki sa-ma-tur-ra šak zi-ut-ti-ia-áš-na Unsak, king of Samatí, son of Ziyuttiyash. The name of this king occur, [sic] but of a private person, in the Persepolis Treasury tablets. But this king is unknown to history so far, as is the name of his country, Samati [corrected from Samaturra]. His father's name begins with the element Ziyut-, which is known in other names and is thought to be Median. Thus it is possible that this vessel comes from the same area of the Median of the time. As to date, between c. 900 and 700 B.C. is reasonably assured. This vessel is in very good state of preservation, and is a important object for the history of pre-Achaemenid Persian art, and for the history of 1st millennium B.C. Iran'; also with further translation notes from an American scholar which state that the transliteration should read: 'Unsak, Samatian King, son of Gittiyash...'. -
Western Asiatic Elamite Gold Statuette
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,300
A hollow-formed sheet gold statuette of a standing robed figure with domed headdress, hands clasped to the chest, holes for the insertion of separate eyes, applied earrings inserted through lateral slots; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Western Asiatic Elamite Silver Statuette
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,712
A hollow-formed silver statuette of a standing robed figure with domed headdress, hands clasped to the chest, holes for the insertion of separate eyes, applied earrings inserted through lateral slots; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Western Asiatic Bactrian Macehead with Eagles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,952
A bronze macehead or hammer with curved body, flared striking face; two eagle heads modelled in the round to the upper face, the body with raised ribs terminating in for graduated loops; pierced laterally through lozengiform raised panels. -
Western Asiatic Chlorite Jar with Eagles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,780
A carved chlorite jar of elegant tapering form widening to a flat base and flared rim, carved in relief with three friezes of birds with hooked beaks, each flying with wings outstretched, with recesses for additional decorative inlays (some absent); larger recesses in the field for duck inlays (two remaining). -
Tibetan Gilt Sitting Manjushri Statue
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,780
A gilt bronze statuette of the Bodhisattva Manjushri seated on a lotus throne, smaller lotus coming from the front to support the right leg; manjushri crowned and with urna to the centre of the forehead, long ears with rosette earrings; strings of necklaces to the chest and armlets, bracelets to both hands, anklets to both feet; sash around the shoulders and hair falling down the arms; left hand holding a book of sutras, right resting by the side of the body; two lotus flowers to the side of the body; to the base a sel with engraved vajra. -
Hiberno-Norse Coins - Anlaf Guthfrithsson - York / Aethelferth - Raven Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,540
Obv: raven with wings spread and head left with +ANLAF CVNVNC legend. Rev: small cross with +AÐELFELD MINETRI legend for the moneyer Aethelferth. -
Hiberno-Norse Coins - Anlaf Sihtricsson - York / Rathulf - Cross Moline Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,944
First reign. Obv: cross moline with +ANLAF CVNVNC legend. Rev: small cross with +RAÐVLF MONET L legend with L inverted for the moneyer Rathulf. -
Hiberno-Norse Coins - Ireland - Sithric Anlafsson - 'PAXS' Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,200
Phase V, imitative series, copying William I PAXS type reverse. Obv: crude profile bust left with blundered legend. Rev: voided long cross with X-in-annulet in angles (from the letters P A X S seen on the prototype) and blundered legend. -
English Medieval Coins - Henry III - London / Terri - Short Cross Round Halfpenny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,160
Obv: facing bust with sceptre and HENRICVS REX legend. Rev: short voided cross and quatrefoils with crescent-and-pellet initial mark and TERRIONLVN.D legend for the moneyer Terri at London mint
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