Post Medieval Ship's Bronze Caulking Wedge

Pendant medal with a three-quarter portrait bust of Gustavus II Adolphus wearing royal dress and a laurel crown, enclosed within a laurel border, the reverse decorated in black champlevé enamel and inscribed: 'ADOLPHUS GUSTAVUS, GOTT MIT UNS' meaning 'Adolphus Gustavus, God with us'; a baroque pearl suspended from a loop beneath the medal, with a suspension bail above. 4.32 grams, 37 mm



Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.

The pendant belonged to the supporters’ jewellery associated with the Swedish king’s campaigns during the Thirty Years’ War.

Osiris represented in his most usual form in a closely fitting cloak as a swathed mummy, holding the crook and the flail in his hands, the long beard neatly braided, wearing the Atef crown with incised plumes on either side; standing on a high integral base inscribed in hieroglyphs with a prayer addressed to the god: 'Osiris, who is (in the West), may he give life (to) Amen-en-Nyut, son of Ipa-dy-su, born of the Mistress of the House, Ta-Horbes'. 6.2 kg, 43.5 cm high



From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. Accompanied by a copy of the sales booklet, which, in Peter's hand, reads: 'Written and illustrated by Peter Clayton'.

The original of this high-quality bronze casting is a black basalt figure of the Egyptian god Osiris, beautifully carved in the 26th Dynasty in the reign of the Pharaoh Psammetichus I (664-610 BC).

Mixed group of artefacts, including a key, an axehead, a radiate-headed brooch, a buckle and a section of a blade. 205 grams total, 4.1-14.3 cm



Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman.