Ethiopian Bone Cross Collection

Displaying different colour glazes and designs including insects visiting flowers, birds perched amidst floral sprays, a vessel at sea, landscapes featuring buildings and sailing vessels, figural vignette and various floral and vegetal designs. 5.3 kg total, 11.5 x 12.5 - 13 x 13 cm



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

Composed of a domed face adorned with graduated granules and large apex granule encircled by filigree collars, lozenge petals and filigree spirals. 3.12 grams, 23 mm



From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Standing on a hexagonal base wearing a goatskin mantle tied by the forelegs around his shoulders, with poppy seed-heads and bunches of grapes by the left arm; in his raised right hand, a bunch of grapes and in his left hand a cudgel; stump of a tree by his right leg and barrel beside his left, with a lamb to the rear placing its foreleg on top; modelled after the so-called Fauno Rosso from Hadrian's Villa, now in the Capitoline Museum. 18.5 kg, 67 cm high



From an important Paris gallery, France.

Half-man, half-beast, satyrs were believed to be the children of goats and mountain nymphs. Followers of the god Dionysus, they had a reputation for drunkenness and spent their days participating in orgiastic rituals. They represented the crude and boisterous facets of the stereotypical male persona, particularly of rural man.