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LOT 0881
Roman Brooch Collection
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (29.6 grams total, 35-37 mm).
Comprising an openwork plate brooch of solar-wheel type; rosette plate brooch with central stud, enamelled cells; lozenge plate brooch with enamelled cells. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK art market, acquired prior to 1980.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
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Roman Glass Bead Necklace
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Restrung group of bicones, faceted glass, oblates and rounded glass beads in various colours some with frosted surfaces. 42 grams, 69 cm long
with a London, UK gallery 1971. -
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Roman Artefact Group
Circa 1st-5th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A trio of artefacts comprising: a Roman copper-alloy coin, likely a sestertius, with worn designs to obverse and reverse, the reverse likely portraying the goddess Minerva leaning on a shield and wearing a helmet; a stone loom weight of conoid form, dated c.100 A.D. and discovered in Egypt; a Roman ceramic oil lamp dated c.500 A.D., piriform in plan with raised borders to the central opening and nozzle, decorative ribbing to the shoulder, conical handle and basal ring. 150 grams total, 33-92 mm
From an old UK collection. From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent. Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt. -
Roman Gold Ring with Cabochon
Circa 2nd-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Hollow-formed with inset glass cabochon. 2.26 grams, 21.59 mm overall, 16.60 mm internal diameter (approximate size British I 1/2, USA 4 1/2, Europe 8.07, Japan 7)
Acquired between the 1960s-early 1990s. From an old UK private collector from Worthing, West Sussex, UK. Property of K.P., a Cornish lady collector, UK.
