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[✠ SENAVETVS, large S flanked by four pellets] / ✠ ALFA ET CIƆ, cross pattée. CNI 26; Biaggi 2536. 6.83 grams, 61 mm.

Condition as seen. Set in a later bar brooch with bulbous finials and a hinged pin.

Acquired on the European art market.

Translucent intaglio showing a bust facing right with a corner of a round shield covering the shoulder, wearing a crested helmet with a snake-head finial. 1.04 grams, 19 mm



UK private collection, acquired on the English art market in the 2000s.

Comprising a rectangular-section hoop and the bezel formed as clasped hands with ribbed cuffs. 3.37 grams, 22.97 mm overall, 18.85 x 19.07 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R, USA 8 1/2, Europe 18 3/4, Japan 18)



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

Comprising a large quantity of drilled coral branch beads and a spatulate green nephrite jade pendant. 66 grams total, 5-60 mm



Acquired on the European art market.

Carved in the round in advancing pose with head turned. 800 grams, 12 cm



Abelita collection, 1980-2015. Private collection, London, UK.

Presenting an architectural setting with figures in two chambers framed with cornices, columns and furnitures; the upper chamber showing Saint Anna in birthing bed with two attendants; the lower room with two attendants bathing an infant; on the right Saint Joachim seated upon a cathedra; Old Slavonic inscription reciting ‘The birth of the most holy mother of God’. 230 grams, 98 mm



Acquired from Chris Martin-Zakheim, Iconastas, 5 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1. From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.

According to the Protoevangelium of James, Mary's parents were called Anna and Joachim and conceived Mary at a late age.

Modelled in the round sitting with legs spread, ithyphallic, supporting a bowl on his left shoulder. 81 grams, 44 mm



Previously belonging to J Stewart, Mayfair, London, UK; acquired in the early 1980s. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.

With a wide, curving blade and an oval socket. 839 grams, 15.6 cm



Property of a Nottinghamshire, UK, gentleman.

Plaque fragment with low-relief scene, kneeling Saint Jerome in a cave with one hand stretched out. 37.3 grams, 77.48 mm



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

Flat-section hoop expanding towards the shoulders, a separately made rectangular bezel with seated winged Eros before a woven basket; the shoulder's stamped with '84' and 'A?'. 1.62 grams, 21.05 mm overall, 19.35 x 19.01 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)



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

Flat-section plain hoop with an engraved inscription 'I LIVE IN LOVE' on the inner face. 3.31 grams, 22.68 mm overall, 20.09 mm internal diameter (approximate size British R 1/2, USA 8 3/4, Europe 19.38, Japan 18)



From the private collection of Graham Slater (1927-2024), Cambridge, UK; formed 1980s-1990s.

Matched pair of rectangular mounts with low-relief floral decoration flanked by pelletted borders and openwork finials. 8.9 grams total, 35-43 mm



From the private collection of Graham Slater (1927-2024), Cambridge, UK; formed 1980s-1990s.