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LOT 2037
Tudor Period Silver Hook Fastener and Hat Ornament Collection
CIRCA 16TH CENTURY A.D.
1/2 - 3/4 in. (12.3 grams total, 14-21 mm).
Including composite rosette button, openwork hooked tag and other types; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series as well as Buttons & Fasteners 500BC-1840AD. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.
LiteratureSee Read, B., Hooked-Clasps and Eyes, Langport, 2008, for discussion.
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LOT 2037
Tudor Period Silver Hook Fastener and Hat Ornament Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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Bronze Statue of an Athlete
19th century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
A nude muscular male figure modelled naturalistically in the round, standing in a dynamic pose with left arm raised and head tilted upward; right eye remodelled; mounted on a tiered display base. 1.45 kg, 24.5 cm
Private collection, England. -
Bronze Torso of an Athlete
Late 19th-early 20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
In Roman style, modelled nude in the contrapposto position with defined musculature; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 4.15 kg total, 40 cm high including stand
French private collection, likely from the early 20th century, as indicated by the wooden stand. -
Post Medieval Glazed Ceramic Tile Group
17th-18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising two designs in relief including three horses in an enclosure and two animals, likely cats, fighting; coloured glazes. 1.3 kg total, 10 x 9 - 10.5 x 9.5 cm
Acquired 1990s-early 2000s. East Anglian private collection.
The tile production increases in the second half of the sixteenth century and during the following centuries. The fragments discovered from various localities (pot-tiles, rectangular, triangular and trapezoidal panels, open-work crest tiles) were all produced in regional workshops, from the end of the 15th century or at the beginning of the 16th century. They all had diverse decorative motifs, mainly animals and geometrical or vegetal combinations, almost all of them singular finds for this study area.