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LOT 2038
Post Medieval Bronze Crucifix
19TH CENTURY A.D.
16 1/4 in. (350 grams, 41.2 cm high).
Set on a free-standing base with hollow reverse, the cross with skull and crossed bone detailing and a plaque bearing worn INRI lettering. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1990s-early 2000s.
East Anglian private collection.
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Post Medieval Bronze 'Fauno Rosso' Satyr
19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
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. -
Tudor 'Thames' Bone and Ash Precious Metal Crucible Group
Circa 16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Of varying sizes and bowl depths, used for testing the quality of gold and silver. 96 grams total, 23-34 mm
Found Thames foreshore spoil, 1980s. -
Neoclassical Sardonyx Cameo of Alexander the Great in Silver Ring
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
With profile bust reserved in high-relief, set into the bezel of a silver finger ring. 11.22 grams, 32.35 mm overall, 20.09 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)
Acquired by the vendor's father on the UK art market, before 1990.
