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LOT 0902
Roman Silver Key Ring with Fretwork Heart
1ST CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (2.11 grams, 18.62 mm overall, 16.39 mm internal diameter (approximate size British L, USA 5 3/4, Europe 11.24, Japan 10)).
The bezel formed with an openwork vine and leaf motif.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 231.
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LOT 0902
Roman Silver Key Ring with Fretwork Heart
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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Roman 'Essex' Bronze and Other Artefact Group
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Including redware fragments, one stamped 'PALL[..]' and another with a lion-mask spout, bronze crest from a statuette of Mercury, bird finial, bone pin, and other items. 127 grams total, 30-68 mm
Found various sites in Essex, UK. Property of an Essex collector. -
Roman Bronze Mixed Brooch Group
Circa 2nd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Including lion, umbonate, equal-ended and other types. 36.1 grams total, 20-35 mm
Found Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
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Roman Bronze Statuette of Helios-Alexander
2nd-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
The god standing nude on an ivy-leaf base in contrapposto pose with right arm extended and hand held palm-outwards; mantle pinned at the right shoulder and wrapped around the bent left arm; the head held erect with soft rounded facial features and luxuriant curls, diadem with radiating spikes representing beams of light; mounting stud to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 583 grams total, 17.5 cm including stand
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.
The cult of Helios-Apollo intensified in the third century A.D. and the adoration of Sol Invictus, with the radiate crown, was often linked to that of Mithras, the god of legions, whose symbol was the bull. Under Emperor Aurelian, the Sol Invictus became the main god, protector of Rome and the Roman state.
