Antique Gold Ring with Australian Opals

Comprising four bricks with raised designs: scrolling vegetation; two monograms, one a merchant's mark, in roundels divided by an object with tiered base and billeted border; male and female facing busts within dot-dash border; worn crowned shield issuing flowering vegetation. 6.4 kg total, 13-14 cm



Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.

These glazed stove or floor tiles are similar to the ones of the great hall and the Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court Palace, made of ceramic, with a glaze to make it hard-wearing and washable. Not just the furnishings, but the palaces themselves were multi-coloured, with brick walls painted red, and exposed timbers in yellow, red, green and white

A substantial decorative designer stele with figure of the goddess Isis carved in the half-round, standing with a feather held in each of her raised hands, pleated skirt tied at her waist over a tight-fitting undergarment; smaller attendant figure to he rear with feather headdress adjusting the robe, wearing a tripartite wig, wesekh collar, tight-fitting calf-length skirt; hieroglyphic text and cartouche in the field; mounted on a custom-made stand; after the antique. 35.2 kg total, 57 cm high including stand



From a French collection, Paris. Ex Parisian gallery, France; latterly with a London, UK, gallery.

Hoop with winged angels forming the shoulders above a cross to one face and pierced heart to the other; bezel with inset pyramidal amethyst; underside inscribed 'amavye' (for my life). 8.67 grams, 26.82 mm overall, 18.35 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49 , Japan 16)



Ex Sussex, UK, private collection. Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.