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

A hollow-formed miniature altar or incense burner with four short legs, panels of red and red enamelled ornament to the sides. 16.1 grams, 20.15 mm



Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.

Fragments of wall plaster with rendered surface painted with mainly Pompeii red, pale blue, brown and cream detailing; some with an impression of timber laths to the reverse. 1.21 kg total, 7.2-14.7 cm



Acquired in the 19th century. Ex Jeger collection, Switzerland. UK gallery, early 2000s.

These small fragments, by analogy with the fragments of Pompeii, seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting - red panels representing highlight and shadow, decorated with vegetal interlaces. A red grenade fillet probably framed some panels. A fragment shows alternate blue and red colours over a cream background, maybe pertinent to a socle.

Ellipsoid in plan with intaglio cockerel standing with curved tail-feathers; supplied with an impression. 0.29 grams, 8 mm



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

A large hollow-formed triangular handle from a lamp, with a low-relief bust of a bearded Jupiter-Serapis wearing a crown on a globe, a smaller globe with a star on each side. 152 grams, 11.8 cm



From the Puys-Aubert collection, March 1963, 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.100.

Wide, shallow body with a flattened base, a long tubular neck expanding towards the rim. 13 grams, 11.7 cm



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

Comprising two D-section hoop with tear-shaped bezel; two with flat-section hoop and discoid bezel with geometric decoration; D-section hoop with raised stepped rectangular bezel; and other types. 58 grams total, 22-27 mm



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

With bulbous body, dimple base, convex rim, pinched circumferential band. 26.4 grams, 82 mm



From the collection of Dr Gerhard Muller-Afers, Speyer; thence by family descent. Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above.

Cottonreel-type vessel with wide base and tubular neck with an everted rim. 95 grams, 88 mm



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

With globular body and dimple base, tubular neck with a pair of applied handles. 476 grams, 18 cm



Ex old English collection. From the estate of a late Bristol, South West England, collector.

Plano-convex in section and octagonal in plan with central intaglio leaping stag or goat and frond; supplied with an impression. 1.06 grams, 13 mm



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

Elipsoid hoop with expanding rounded shoulders decorated with leaf-shaped and linear motif, insert with a later white stone intaglio with a stylised head in a profile. 3.16 grams, 23.36 mm overall, 16.25 x 12.90 mm internal diameter (approximate size British F 1/2, USA 3, Europe 4.3, Japan 4)



Ex Saeed Motamed (1925-2013), collected between 1953-early 1990s. with Christie's, 22 April 2013, no.25.

Round oil lamp with a short nozzle, the discus with an advancing ram on a baseline; an inked collector's number 'L105' on the base. 56 grams, 84 mm



From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.