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LOT 0921
Roman Bronze Signet Ring with Horse
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (7.30 grams, 24.71 mm overall, 19.11 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O 1/2, USA 7 1/4, Europe 15.61, Japan 15)).
Broad plaque with incuse image of a horse with walking attendant, objects in the field.
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Roman and Later Artefact Collection
1st-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Including a bifid vessel handle with coiled finial, buckles, belt-plaques; harness fittings, key-wards and other items. 646 grams total, 1.6-13.6 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Romano-British 'Colchester' Samian Ware Sherd Group
1st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising four curved sherds of burnished redware with carinated profile and scrolled tendrils in low-relief with rosettes and palmettes; with old collector's card 'Fragments of same Samian Decorated Bowl. / La Graufesenque / Nero-Vespasian Period / Found Colchester'. 83 grams total, 13-15 cm
Found Colchester, Essex, UK. From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s. Accompanied by an old handwritten catalogue information card. -
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Orange Glass Intaglio
Roman, 3rd-4th century A.D. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £124
The banded glass imitating banded agate; intaglio scene composed of a crowned figure standing right, holding a cornucopia and wreath, an eagle standing beside. 2.61 grams, 19 mm
From an early 20th century collection, Caernarfon, North Wales, UK.
The gem appears to represent Zeus with a cornucopia on his right arm and a crown in his left hand, with the eagle, his symbol, at his feet. The eagle has its head turned back, and stands looking up towards him.
