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LOT 0736
Roman and Other Glass and Stone Bead Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
1/8 - 3/4 in. (81 grams total, 2-18 mm).
Comprising a quantity of small beads, in mixed shapes, colours and materials; each pierced for stringing. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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LOT 0736
Roman and Other Glass and Stone Bead Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
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Roman Pewter Cignus Spoon with Coiled Swan-Neck Handle
4th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
With large oval bowl and a long, slender handle, compressed into S-shape and terminating in a stylised bird’s head. 42.4 grams, 85 mm
Found near Welney, Cambridgeshire, in 1985.
Similar silver spoons (cygni), were found within a set of ten spoons (today at the British Museum with inventory nos. 1994,0408.81-90) with ownership inscriptions. The handle attachment of such spoons had some decorative profiling, and the name 'AVRVRSICINI' within the bowl was inlaid with niello. The spoons seems to have been produced by a Romano-British workshop of Late Antiquity (4th-5th centuries A.D.). The cygnus was a particular type of ligula. This type was characterised by a large, oval-shaped bowl, but was equipped, unlike the common ligula, with a shortened, recurved handle which terminated in a stylised water bird or swan's head (swan = cygnus in Latin). -
Roman Prize Winning Bronze Horse Statuette
2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £700 - 900 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £389
Modelled standing on a rectangular base, standing facing, tail hanging between legs, simple stylised facial detailing. 80 grams, 47 mm high
‘The Ancient Menagerie Collection’ formerly the property of a Cambridgeshire lady, collected since the 1990s and acquired from auctions and dealers throughout Europe and the USA, now ex London collection. -
Roman Bronze Ram Statuette
1st-4th century A.D.Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Modelled standing in the round with naturalistic detailing, with head turned right with curled horns. 42 grams, 39 mm
‘The Ancient Menagerie Collection’ formerly the property of a Cambridgeshire lady, collected since the 1990s and acquired from auctions and dealers throughout Europe and the USA, now ex London collection.
