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LOT 1219
Roman Bronze Chariot Wheel Centre Cap with Medusa
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (37.4 grams, 40 mm).
Discoid in plan with shallow flange to reverse; low-relief facing female bust with lateral segmented hair. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 1219
Roman Bronze Chariot Wheel Centre Cap with Medusa
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Roman Pale Green Glass Jug with Trail
Circa 4th-5th century A.D.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £550
With a rounded body and a cylindrical neck with a funnel-shaped mouth, a small uneven foot and a blue-trailed handle; the body decorated with vertical concave indents and trails of glass applied at the base of the neck and around the mouth. 53 grams, 10.5 cm
From a London collection, acquired in the 1970s. Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s. Accompanied by a typed previous catalogue information page with provenance.
This jug has many common features with the distinctive group of Syro-Palestinian glasses, free- and mould-blown ones dated to the 4th-5th centuries A.D. Common features, beginning with the characteristic colour and quality of both green and turquoise glass, are the shape of the base and the handle, the indentations along the body, and the decorative coloured coil on the neck and under the rim. -
Large Gaulish Roman Terracotta Vase
Calais, 2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Piriform in profile with broad everted rim, band of rouletting to the shoulder and old collector's inked notation 'Béthune Pas-de-Calais'. 1.79 kg, 24 cm high
Found Béthune in Pas-de-Calais, Northern France. Ex Wiltshire, UK, private collection, 1980s. -
Roman Translucent Glass Candlestick Bottle
Circa 1st century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Wide, shallow body with a flattened base, a long tubular neck expanding towards the rim. 13 grams, 11.7 cm
Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s.
