Framed Watercolour Painting

In a velvet-lined wooden case with brass snap-hinges; balance arm with handle and gnomon, two dished pans on chains; stand with screw-thread to base; socket with brass cap and threaded central hole; steel tweezers; seven brass cup weights marked as 1GM, 2 x 2GM, 5GM, 2 x 10GM, 20 GM; plastic case with milligram weights: 500, 2 x 200, 100, 50, 2 x 20, 10, 5, 2 x 2. 477 grams total, 23 x 14 cm including box



Acquired 1960s-1990s. Late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

Comprising two tile designs in relief: three horses in an enclosure; two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.29 kg total, 9.9 x 9.1 - 10.2 x 9.3 cm



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

The tile production increased in the second half of the 16th century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.

Composed of a tapering round-section hoop supporting a recessed rectangular plaque displaying a Roman coin fragment: obverse presenting the bust of a Roman emperor, the goddess Fortuna standing holding a cornucopia and rudder to reverse; ribbed suspension loop above. 7.63 grams, 40 mm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.