Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String

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

With flared mouth and bulbous body, low-relief frieze of workers and labourers undertaking appropriate agricultural tasks, horizontal bands with the corresponding names of the months. 4.2 kg, 54 cm high



Acquired London, UK. Property of a Harwich gentleman.

Composed of graduated cylindrical and oval beads, some of the larger cylindrical beads with incised linear decoration. 39.4 grams, 62 cm long



Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.