Fine Ancient Art, Antiquities & Jewellery
Saturday, January 25th, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. BST
Apollo Art Auctions is proud to announce the “Fine Ancient Art, Antiquities & Jewellery” auction.
Commencing on the 25th of January at 1 p.m. GMT. The auction showcases an excellent array of excellent marbles, jewellery, seals and antiquities from the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Viking, Medieval and Western Asiatic cultures ranging between 9th century BC to 14th century AD.
The sale will be held live at our Central London showroom, 63 – 64 Margaret Street, W1W 8SW, and online via the Apollo Art Auctions platform at 1 p.m. GMT.
The auction boasts strong provenances, coming from collections of Axel Guttmann, Nahum Goldmann, Joseph Klein, Countess Adelheid Lanckoronska, Elie Borowski, Marilynn Alsdorf, Mr. & Mrs. Carl Tautenhahn, the Estate of Elliott Golub, Winnetka, Alison Barker and Mrs B. Ellison.
All lots will be available for preview at our central London showroom by appointment only from the 20th – 24th January 2025, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Our white-gloved team professionally handles all items preparing them for in-house shipping. Contact us via email enquiries@apolloauctions.com or by calling (+44) 7424 994167.
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Consultants:
Dr. Ivan Bonchev (General Antiquities) Dott. Alessandro Neri (General Antiquities) Carol. R. Andrews (Ancient Egypt) James Brenchley (Classical & Ancient Egypt) Clive Sawyer (Numismatics & General Antiquities) Sami Fortune (Ancient Jewellery) Prof. Dr. Peter Van Der Veen (Ancient Cylinder Seals and Near Eastern) Ralf Kotalla (Glass and Terracotta) Raymond Bove (Stone and Metal) Simone Musso (Ancient Egypt)
Day One
1. FRAGMENT OF A LIMESTONE RELIEF WITH A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Ca. 1353 - 1336 BC.
Starting Price: £1000
A relief, carved from pale orange sandstone, depicting a tall figure, probably a princess of the New Kingdom. The princess is portrayed with delicate facial features and full lips.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. M. H. collection, Kensington, acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 240mm x 180mm; Weight: 3.65kg
2. EGYPTIAN FRAGMENT OF SANDSTONE FUNERARY STELA
XXV Dynasty 747-664 BC
Starting Price: £3000
An Egyptian fragment of a funerary stela. This is likely the second register of the stela: the offerings for the deceased and part of his son’s face performing funerary offering are still visible. The deceased son’s name is recorded in the hieroglyphic inscription above the scene: “ his beloved son Ptahemheb”. Below this inscription, an attendant is depicted with a head-cone, which is a type of conical ornament used in ancient Egypt. This ornament is often seen in paintings and bas-reliefs but was only confirmed through archaeological evidence in 2009. To the right, a broad register displays votive food offerings, suggesting that the context of this relief served a religious or ceremonial role.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Secret Eye, New York, 1977; Ex. Arte Primitivo, New York, Important Classical, Egyptian, and Asian Antiquities, 8 October 2003, Lot 13; Ex. Donald Wonder (1938-2023), California & New Jersey, thence by descent. A copy of the original paperwork available. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports : This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 380mm x 140mm; Weight: 2.9kg.
3. RARE EGYPTIAN GRANITE FACE OF A OFFICIAL
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A head of a male figure carved from granite, with an age-darkened surface. The piece exhibits traditional elongated eyes and a bulbous bag wig characteristic of Late Period Egypt. The serene expression includes almond-shaped eyes, a broad nose, and sunken cheeks, beneath a smooth wig positioned behind the ears.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports : This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 195mm x 180mm; Weight: 3.06kg.
4. UPPER PART OF A LID OF EGYPTIAN WOODEN COFFIN
Starting Price: £10000
Third Intermediate Period, 22nd-25th Dynasties, Ca. 945 - 700 BC; probably from Lower Egypt.
An upper part of lid of a wooden coffin decorated with polychrome painted gesso. It features a vulture headdress over a striped archaic wig, with a central black scarab symbolising regeneration. The pink-hued face displays pronounced black-outlined eyes and eyebrows. The closed hands are adorned with coloured designs, possibly representing richly patterned gloves. For similar see: J. H. Taylor “Coffins as evidence for a North-South divide in 22nd-25th Dynasties” in “The Libyan Period in Egypt. Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st-24th Dynasties Proceedings of a Conference at the Leiden University 25-27 October 2007, pp. 375-409.
Provenance: Private London collection; acquired on the Dutch art market; Ex. Mr. Hans Kamps collection (1953 – 2023), acquired from Glenn Howard Ancient Art; Ex. Swiss collection, Ex. VA Collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 720mm x 500mm; Weight: 4.7kg.
5. RARE EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE FALSE DOOR STELE OF IMA WITH HIEROGLYPHS - FULLY TRANSLATED
End of the Old Kingdom / Beginning of the First Intermediate Period, Dynasties VII-VIII, Ca. 2181 - 2160 BC
Starting Price: £10000
A beautiful limestone Egyptian false door consisting of a recessed central panel surrounded by two columns and one upper register of inscribed hieroglyphs. It belonged to Ima, a high official at the royal court, as shown in his titles: “King’s acquaintance”, “King’s nobleman of the house of the dignitaries” and “ Inspector of the spear(?)”. This title is a unicum, in fact it is not found in other known monuments. This false door has all the canonical parts: the decorated torus, the upper lintel, the outer door jambs, the lower lintel and the inner jambs. Between the inner jambs there is a narrow niche suggesting the entrance to a door with a rolled-up mat (drum) above it. In the space between the outer jambs there is a panel with a scene in sunk-relief : the deceased seated in front of the offering table. He is also depicted in sunk-relief on the outer jambs, standing up, looking inwards, with the emblems of his rank, the staff and the sceptre, in his hands. In the inner right jamb, a standing up woman is depicted in sunkrelief, looking inwards, with a lotus flower in her right hand. Above her figure a hieroglyphic text reports her titles and name: “King’s acquaintance, priestess of Hathor, Pef”, she is probably Ima’s wife. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 64.100 (model).
Provenance: Property of a London collector; formerly with Mayfair family S. A., acquired from a London professor in the late 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report from Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 700mm x 410mm; Weight: 23kg.
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, Ca. 1307 - 1196 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A black stone head of a pharaoh. The figure wears a headdress with visible detailing, though weathering has softened some of the features. The face exhibits a serene expression, with clearly defined eyes, nose, and mouth, while the ears are depicted prominently. The surface of the stone has a rough, uneven texture. The statue is mounted on a custom-made modern display stand.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Countess Adelheid Lanckoronska (1903-1980), Vienna and Zurich; Ex. Folio Fine Art, London, 1970; Estate of George Halpern, New York; Ex. Sotheby’s, New York, Important Antiquities, 10 December 1999, Lot 425; Ex. Donald Wonder (1938-2023), New Jersey; thence by descent. A copy of the original paperwork is available.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 270mm x 180mm; Weight: 7.8kg
6. LARGE EGYPTIAN BLACK STONE HEAD OF AN OFFICIAL
7. EGYPTIAN SANDSTONE RELIEF DEPICTING AMON
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
Starting Price:
A stunning sandstone panel with two main figures. The first is a woman, possibly a goddess consort like Mut or Amenet, or a clerical figure known as the Divine Adoratrice. She has her partial right arm extended and is dressed in a sheath gown, adorned with a large wesekh pectoral collar around her neck. Her headdress resembles a vulture, with its wings draped behind her ears, lappets down to her breasts, and a pair of ostrich feather plumes partially visible on top. This suggests her role as a Divine Adoratrice of Amun, and she is holding an ankh (the cross symbol). The second figure is a man seated on a large chair upon a stage. He wears a short skirt, and his bald head is crowned with feathers.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Harmer Rooke Galleries, New York; Ex. Donald Wonder (1938-2023), California & New Jersey, where acquired from the above, 9 August 1983; thence by descent. A copy of the original paperwork available.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 320mm x 180mm; Weight: 3.7kg.
8. EGYPTIAN GREEN FAIENCE STATUETTE OF A CONCUBINE
Middle Kingdom, Ca. 1991 - 1790 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A rare faience of a hand-built concubine, nude and covered in turquoise-hued glaze, with arms held loosely at her sides. Dozens of hand-painted black rhombs cover her long dress and highlight details the necklace and the bracelets. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 22.1.180.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 110mm x 50mm; Weight: 150g
9. EGYPTIAN WOODEN POLYCHROME STATUETTE
Middle Kingdom, Ca. 2055 - 1790 BC.
Starting Price: £1000
A carved wooden female figure stands atop an integral platform, featuring close-set legs with slightly bent knees. Remnants of white and red pigments are visible, indicating the sheath dress she may have once worn, while black pigment accentuates her hair and face.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 250mm x 55mm; Weight: 50g.
10. EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI OF KHAEMWASET - TRANSLATED
Ca. 1069 - 664 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A faience ushabti standing in a dignified pose, that is enrobed in layers of incredibly lustrous, brilliant pale faience glaze. The figure presents in characteristic ushabti fashion by standing in mummiform with fused legs and feet, crossing both arms atop the chest with a pair of black-painted picks in his hands, and with a seed bag draped from both shoulders down to the middle of his back. The protruding visage exhibits gently modelled features like almond-shaped eyes outlined heavily with black pigment, a flush nose, a slender mouth with indented corners, and tall ears, all framed within the striated lappets of his tripartite wig. A column of hieroglyphic symbols down the front and onto the feet. A vertical inscription is painted on the front reading, “The illuminated one, the Osiris, Sem Priest of Ptah, Son of the King (Prince), Khaemwaset”.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. UK art market; English private collection; with Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (New York); formerly in the collection of Leopoldo Benguerel y Godo, Barcelona; acquired in London in the 1960s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 165mm x 40mm; Weight: 200g.
11. EGYPTIAN BRONZE HEAD OF A CAT
Starting Price: £4000
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 664 - 30 BC
A bronze feline head with upright ears, deep-set eyes, a defined nose with whisker pads, and a closed mouth. The patina is a mottled green, typical of aged bronze. The head is mounted on a square, off-white marble pedestal. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 40.5.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. private French collection, in the 1970s; Ex. Patrick Decllerck, Auction, France, sale no. 775, 2014.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 120mm x 65mm; Weight: 855g.
12. EGYPTIAN BAS-RELIEF WITH DOUBLE CARTOUCHE OF AMENOPHIS IV / AKHENATON
18th century
Starting Price: £1000
A block of crystalline marble shaped as a double cartouche, enclosing inscriptions of the sun disc Aten: “Ra-Harakhty rising in the Horizon” and “in his name as the light which is in the Aten.” The sides bear the name of the king, linking the god Aten to his intermediary on earth. This block was originally part of a stairway railing in a temple dedicated to the god Aten. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 21.9.431.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 120mm x 120mm; Weight: 965g.
13. HUGE EGYPTIAN ALABASTER JAR
Early Dynastic, Ca. 3100 - 2686 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A carved alabaster jar of sturdy form and creamy tan hue with a baluster-shaped body and a squat rim atop the shoulder. The size and shape of the rim indicate this was originally made to accompany a lid to enclose the contents held inside.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Mayfair gallery, 1980s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 350mm x 190mm; Weight: 5.1kg
14. LARGE EGYPTIAN ALABASTER ALABASTRON
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A sandstone relief with inscription. The upper hieroglyphs on this fragment read “God’s Father,” indicating a priestly title. Below this inscription, an attendant is depicted with a head cone, which is a type of conical ornament used in ancient Egypt. This ornament is often seen in paintings and bas-reliefs but was only confirmed through archaeological evidence in 2009. To the right, a broad register displays votive food offerings, suggesting that the context of this relief served a religious or ceremonial role.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Mayfair gallery, 1980s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 260mm x 123mm; Weight: 2.8kg
15. RARE EGYPTIAN FAIENCE NECKLACE - WEARABLE
New Kingdom - Late period, Ca. 1550 - 332 BC
Starting Price: £8000
A necklace composed of two main strands featuring tubular-shaped faience beads in a blue hue characteristic of New Kingdom productions, alternating with seed-shaped carnelian and gold beads. Between the two main strands are situated Djed-shaped beads made from gold and inlaid with stones. This piece exemplifies the typical craftsmanship of the late Pharaonic period. The necklace is fastened at the back with a hook-and-loop system.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. US art market; Ex. Mr. & Mrs. Carl Tautcnhahn, Houston, TX, Purchased Sept 28, 1980. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy. This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 240/480mm x 25mm; Weight: 14g
16. EGYPTIAN GOLD BROOCH WITH STONE INLAID HORUS EYE
Ca. 100 BC - AD 100
Starting Price: £2000
A circular gold plaque with a recessed central field bordered by a flat rim, incised with fine hatching along its edge. The cavetto is plain and smooth, with a detailed design at the base of the recess depicting the Eye of Horus in the centre. The design features symmetrical cells housing inlays, predominantly in shades of blue, turquoise, and white or cream. The back is fitted with suspension loops.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Simone de Monbrison, Paris, prior to 1970; Ex. Private Collection (1926-2019), Chicago, acquired from the above, 17 July 1970. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 30mm x 30mm; Weight: 10g
17. EGYPTIAN GOLD RAISED COBRA
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
A mould-formed gold amulet of a snake representing an asp or a royal uraeus cobra. The serpentine creature rests atop an integral rectangular plinth and features a high-arching back, a slightly flared hood lining its incised neck, and a reared head with small eyes and a slit-form mouth.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. US art market; Furmen Mebb, New York City, Purchased May 12, 1976. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 25mm x 15mm; Weight: 12g Starting
18. PTOLEMAIC GOLD SNAKE BRACELET
Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332 - 30 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A gold 21 ct bracelet shaped like a snake features five coils, with the head and tail crafted in realistic detail, showing individually engraved scales. The body has a smooth band section in the middle. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 2771, Ancient Jewelry, Lot. 270.
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the London art market in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 90mm x 60mm; Weight: 45g
19. ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD SNAKE
Ca. 30 BC - AD 200
Starting Price: £1000
A gold 21.8 ct snake ring with a naturalistic head and engraved scales on the body and on the head, the tail is slightly twisted. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1917,0501.950.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.96mm / US: 10 1/4 / UK: U; Weight: 7g
20. RARE EGYPTIAN GOLD GLASS INLAID RING WITH LOTUS FLOWERS
New Kingdom, Ca. 1550 - 1069 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A stunning gold ring with a round, column-shaped hoop and a bezel designed in the form of two lotus flower capitals, inlaid with blue and red glass. The flowers are flanked by two gold pistils, enhancing the intricate design of the piece. For similar see: The Walters Art Museum, Accession Number VO.77 (57.1474, 57.1475).
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Elie Borowski, Basel, before 1980. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: D:18.14mm / US: 8 / UK: P 1/2; Weight: 7g
21. EGYPTIAN SILVER RING DEPICTING BASTET AND KITTENS
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A silver ring with a semicircular hoop featuring a conical section tapering to the bottom, connected to a square bezel that depicts a cat - symbol of the goddess Bastet and her kittens. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 2017.34.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Tautenhahn, before 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: D:17.32mm / US: 7 / UK: N 1/2; Weight: 9g.
22.
EGYPTIAN AMETHYST SCARAB IN GOLD RING
Ca. 664 - 332 BC
A gold swivel ring set with a deep violet-purple amethyst, oval-shaped scarab. The upper body of the scarab is intricately carved, displaying detailed motifs, while the underside remains flat and unworked. The accompanying gold ring consists of a minimalistic, thin round-section hoop, embellished with three decorative ring elements. A curved frame securely holds the scarab in place.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:13.67mm / US: 2 1/2 / UK: E; Weight: 8g
25.
EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE USHABTI
New Kingdom, Ca. 1550 - 1069 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A carved limestone ushabti figure standing in mummiform with fused legs and feet protruding from the base. The figure displays horizontal striations across its surfaces, indicative of the carving process and has its arms crossed over the chest, possibly with a pick and hoe originally painted atop the stone. The serene face features almond-shaped eyes beneath heavy lids, a bulbous nose above full lips, puffy cheeks, a false beard, and tall ears, all beneath a long tripartite wig resting on the shoulders. The front side is adorned with five lines of an elegant hieroglyphic inscription. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 45.4.7; The British Museum, Museum number EA8644; Christie’s, Live Auction 20667, Antiquities, Lot. 16.
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the London art market in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 220mm x 60mm; Weight: 730g
26. EGYPTIAN PAINTED LIMESTONE USHABTI OF SA-ASET.
Starting Price: £1000
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, Ca. 1292 - 1190 BC
A limestone ushabti with extraordinary original pigment preserved, featuring black-painted hieroglyphics inscribed vertically around its legs on a yellow ground. The figure stands in mummiform with fused legs and holds red-painted tools intended to help with agricultural work in the afterlife: a pick and hoe in crossed arms, and a braided rope carrying a bag over its left shoulder. The peaceful face exhibits slender, black-painted eyes, arching brows, a triangular nose, full lips embellished with red colour, and a tapered chin, all beneath a tripartite pale blue wig. For similar see: The British Museum, Object reference number 1915.0515.39.b EA41549. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 215mm x 75mm; Weight: 415g
28. RARE EGYPTIAN PALE GREEN FAIENCE USHABTI OF THE PRIEST PA-DI-USIR SON OF SETJA-IRET-BINT
End of XXXth Dynasty/Beginning of the Ptolemaic Period (Ca. 379 - 280 BC)
Starting Price: £5000
A faience ushabti with a tall, mummiform stance atop an integral rectangular plinth. The lower part of the body is inscribed with hieroglyphs. The figure holds a pick and hoe in crossed arms, with a thatched seed bag draped over the left shoulder. The face features almond-shaped eyes with elongated canthi, a slender nose with defined nostrils, indented mouth corners, cupped ears, and a plaited false beard. These details are framed by the striated lappets of a tripartite wig. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 62.64.1; The British Museum, Museum number EA64347; Christie’s, Live Auction 21709, Antiquities, Lot 119.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Aaron Gallery; Ex. UK private collection, 2000; Ex. Swiss collection, early 1980s until 2000; acquired on the Geneva art market, 1980. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition..
Size: Size: 195mm x 55mm; Weight: 410g
29. EGYPTIAN BRONZE STATUETTE OF PHARAOH
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 525 BC
A cast leaded-bronze figure of pharaoh, who holds a crook and flail in arms placed neatly atop the chest. The mummiform deity stares silently out from almond-shaped eyes resting beneath an Atef crown, and layers of green patina have formed across the surfaces. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1872,0816.94; Christie’s, Live Auction 7207, Antiquties, Lot 34.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Private NYC Collection Acquired from Frishman Gallery Tel Aviv Israel 1970. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 260mm x 65mm; Weight: 800g
30. EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF NEFERTUM
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
A finely cast bronze figure of Nefertum. The standing male deity is depicted with the left leg striding forward and arms resting at the sides. He is dressed in a pleated kilt and adorned with a uraeus and a lotus-form headdress. A suspension loop is positioned on the back. For similar see: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Accession Number 260207; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Object Number 221:1954.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Private NYC Collection Acquired from Frishman Gallery Tel Aviv Israel 1970. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 210mm x 45mm; Weight: 305g
40. EGYPTIAN NECKLACE WITH FAIENCE AND STONE BEADS
Starting Price: £500
Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, Ca. 1069 - 332 BC
A necklace with a central strand that divides into five strands made of tubular-shaped faience beads at four lateral points. In the centre of the necklace, there are two pendants or amulets shaped like the Wadjet and the jackal god Anubis, both crafted from light green faience.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition.
Size: 495mm x 40mm; Weight: 40g
44. EGYPTIAN SILVER RING WITH RED JASPER SCARAB
Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A silver ring with a tubular section round hoop that tapers toward the finials. The hoop is adorned with a coiled silver thread and is connected to an oval bezel framed with a silver thread securing a red jasper scarab made with naturalistic details and inscribed with hieroglyphic symbols.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:21.79mm / US: 12 1/2 / UK: Z; Weight: 14g
Starting Price: £5000
Ca. AD 50 - 200
An arm of a marble statue composed of two parts. The larger section is a hand crafted in an exceptionally naturalistic manner, featuring intricate details of the skin, knuckles, and nails. The interior, with its slightly closed hand position, is both beautiful and meticulously detailed. The arm segment is adorned with a bracelet shaped like a snake, with two spirals wrapping around the arm. The surface of the snake is embellished with scales, and its head is positioned towards the wrist. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3798, Antiquities, Lot 65; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 21.88.10.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 125-215mm x 70-90mm; Weight: 1.78kg
50. ROMANO-EGYPTIAN MARBLE ARM AND HAND OF A LIFESIZE STATUE
51. RARE PHOENICIAN GOLD RING WITH HORSE
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A gold signet ring with a flat-section hoop. It has slightly expanding shoulders and a large oval bezel. The face of the bezel is engraved with a figure of a horse. Above the horse, a plant-like motif, resembling a palm tree emerges. The bezel is further decorated with a series of small, repeated decorative lines, creating a patterned border around the engraved area, reminiscent of a rope or chain pattern.
Provenance: Property of a London Ancient Art Gallery; formerly in the famous Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; acquired between the early1960s to 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:15.49mm / US: 4 3/4 / UK: J; Weight: 5.34g
52. ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD RING DEPICTING BUST OF SERAPIS
Ca. 200 BC - AD 100
Starting Price: £1000
An attractive gold ring with a tapering plain hoop surmounted by a moulded decoration, in the shape of a bust of Serapis with the modus on his head. The god is depicted with large shoulders, a big beard and long hair. This type of ring made its appearance in late Hellenistic times. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 26.7.832; The British Museum, Museum number 1856,1226.1077.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:15.09mm / US: 4 / UK: H 1/2; Weight: 7g
57. RARE BOEOTIAN TERRACOTTA DIONYSUS WITH ORIGINAL INVOICES
Ca. 400 - 375 BC
Starting Price: £800
A terracotta figure of Dionysus standing atop an integrated plinth. The figure is depicted in a contrapposto pose, with the left leg positioned forward. He is nude, with his gaze directed forward. The figure wears a petasos hat, and his curly hair is finely rendered. The figure’s facial expression is serene and somewhat neutral. An animal is held in his right hand, while a himation is draped over his left shoulder. Traces of white pigment are visible across the surface. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Inventory Number CA 4273; The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Inventory number T.735.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Donald Wonder (1938-2023), California & New Jersey, prior to 1998; thence by descent. [Inv. no. 72]. A copy of the original invoice available. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 330mm x 95mm; Weight: 755g
62. CYPRIOT GEOMETRIC BICHROME AMPHORA
Ca. 850 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A large amphora characterised by a slightly elongated globular body resting on a short, ring-shaped foot. It features a wide neck with a short, everted rim. The primary decoration comprises a series of concentric bands on the body of the vase and on the neck, in red and brownish-red tones. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.717.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Christie’s, South Kensington, 4 November 1992, no.33; Ex. an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 530mm x 400mm; Weight: 8.5kg
Ca. 500 BC
Starting Price: £8000
A stone statue of a standing youth, wearing a long tunic with longitudinal folds, and a raised head crowned with a laurel wreath. He is holding a bird in his raised left hand.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. Dino and Raffaello Tomasso Gallery; UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: Size: 750mm x 350mm; Weight: 22.5kg.
66. HUGE CYPRIOT STATUE OF LAUREL CROWNED YOUTH
68. CYPRIOT LIMESTONE VOTIVE STATUETTE OF A COW
Ca. 600 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A limestone votive cow, standing on four legs with a smooth underside. The head is simply detailed, with small, pointed ears, deep-set eyes, and a slightly outlined snout with an open mouth. Incised lines are present on the dewlap. The animal is mounted on a modern wooden stand. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 74.51.2663; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Accession Number 72.305. A similar example sold for £1,125 at Bonhams, Antiquities, 24 October 2012, Lot 3. A similar example sold for £1,125 at Bonhams, Antiquities, 24 October 2012, Lot 3.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Bonhams, London, 24 October 2012, no.3; Ex. Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980. Thence by descent. Base and collection numbers suggest, it may have been deaccessioned from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 195mm x 165mm; Weight: 1.19kg
69. ETRUSCAN STAMNOS WHITE ON RED
Ca. 700 - 600 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A stamnos, also known as a lebês gamikos, is a vessel inspired by Corinthian pottery from the Italic geometric period. This example is a sub-cylindrical jar with a short, thick neck and small side handles. The decoration comprises concentric bands of red pigment on a white or cream background, with the shoulders featuring a prominent band of stylised birds in a reserved cream hue on a red band. For similar see: Medori M.L., La ceramica “white-onred” della media Etruria interna, Plate XXXIX, Type C1a.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery, acquired on the US art market; Ex. NJ. collection, acquired in the late 1990s; Ex. Morris Pinto collection, NYC. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 390mm x 305mm; Weight: 3.48kg
70. LARGE ETRUSCAN BUCCHERO KYATHOS ON PEDESTAL
Ca. 550 BC
Starting Price: £900
A large bucchero blackware kyathos featuring a cup-shaped body with stamped and incised decoration and an elaborate looped handle. The large flat handle is adorned with two lateral high ears and two stylised volutes, one at the base and two additional on the notched top. The body rests on a splayed foot. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 16.174.11.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 410mm x 290mm; Weight: 1.76kg
71. ETRUSCAN POTTERY CINERARY URN
Ca. 700 - 500 BC
Starting Price: £900
A cinerary olla with a globular body and a round ring base. It is equipped with two sticklike handles on its shoulders, along with a short neck that has an everted rim. The clay used to create this piece is red and contains many inclusions. For similar see: Paolucci - Urne cinerarie a forma di ‘casa’ da Tolle - Chianciano, tav. XVIII, e, Studi etruschi LXXII.
Provenance: Property of a center London gallery, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Estate of Elliott Golub, Winnetka, IL; formerly acquired from David Amster Ancient Art, Chicago, 6 September 1989. [Inv. no. A41]. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 370mm x 420mm; Weight: 5kg
75. ETRUSCAN ALABASTER ALABASTRON
Ca. 500 - 300 BC
Starting Price:
An alabastron carved of alabaster with a wide disc rim and elongated piriform body with a hemispheric base and small lug handles.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 240mm x 85mm; Weight: 370g
79. SCYTHIAN BRONZE HAND MIRROR WITH QUADRUPED
Ca. 600 BC
Starting Price:
A bronze mirror with a large, flat circular body, raised borders and a short-tanged column-shaped handle. A standing quadruped decorates the top of the handle. For similar see: Trofimova A., Greeks on the Black Sea: Ancient Art from the Hermitage, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007, item 29; The Neues Museum, Berlin, Ident. Nr.: 30358. L’Or des Scythes, n. 32.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 320mm x 180mm; Weight: 1.23kg
83.
PAIR OF ETRUSCAN BRONZE KYATHOI
Ca. 450 - 400 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A pair of bronze kyathoi, with one vessel slightly smaller than the other, each features a tall body that rises from a flat circular base. The walls are corseted, leading to a rounded shoulder and a short neck, while the flat collar rims have raised edges. Each vessel is equipped with a riveted, flat-section handle that extends above the rim, characterised by a large loop. For similar see: The Harvard Art Museums, Object Number 1992.7; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 12.160.5.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 120-130mm x 85-100mm; Weight: 380g
84. COLLECTION OF ETRUSCAN BRONZE MIRRORS WITH BONE HANDLES
Ca. 400 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A collection of three bronze mirrors. The round discs have a slightly concave body with a short rim and a small tang. The bone handle is decorated with encircling lines and concentric patterns. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 97.22.17.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 205-245mm x 160-165mm; Weight: 490g
85. ETRUSCAN BRONZE OINOCHOE
Ca. 500 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A bronze oinochoe with a flat base and an upward-flaring lower body. The vessel exhibits a sharp carination that delineates the transition from the lower body to the sloped shoulder. The long cylindrical neck culminates in a trefoil lip, allowing for precise pouring. Accompanying this refined shape is a single, ribbed handle that provides a sturdy grip. For similar see: The Walters Art Museum, Accession Number 54.96; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 21.88.126.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
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Size: 220mm x 150mm; Weight: 555g
93. ETRUSCAN BRONZE THYMIATERIONINCENSE BURNER
Ca. 325 - 275 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A cast bronze thymiaterion, a type of ancient incense burner used in rituals and ceremonies. This particular piece stands on a tripod base, with each leg crafted to resemble a horse’s leg, complete with detailed hooves. Atop the sturdy legs, a round-section rod supports a hemispherical bowl, nestled within a square frame. Each corner of the frame is adorned with a small bird. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 96.18.17. A similar example hammered for £18,900 at Christie’s, Live Auction 22666, Antiquities, 3 Jul 2024, Lot 42.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 415mm x 190mm; Weight: 765g
94. ETRUSCAN BRONZE STATUETTE OF ARUSPIX
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A bronze statuette depicting a male votive figure, probably an Aruspix. He is wearing a himation, which is draped over his left shoulder and arm, and has put his weight slightly on his right leg so that his left leg is relaxed. His arms are raised and bent. The statuette has a flattened form, which is typical of statuettes of offerers, produced in the late fourth and third centuries BC; these statuettes, usually in a linear style, show the male offerer with his chest bare.
Provenance: Private collection; Ex. Private estate of Michael and Jill Barrington, acquired at the latest in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 180mm x 60mm; Weight: 520g
95. RARE GREEK FUNERARY STELE OF CLASSICAL PERIOD
Ca. Late 400, beginning of 300 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A splendid marble votive stele carved with the relief image of two figures. Likely representing a funerary scene, the figures are both dressed in traditional clothing: the woman stands to the left tightly wrapped in a kiton, while the other woman, wearing a large himation, is seated on a large chair with polygonal-section flared legs. She is holding the hands of the standing woman, likely a final farewell between them. For similar see: The famous stele of Hegeso in the National Archeological Museum of Athens, NAMA 3624.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. M. H. collection, Kensington, acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 125mm x 95mm; Weight: 750g
97. CANOSAN KRATER WITH MOULDED FACES OF DEITIES
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
A krater from Canosa made of purified clay with a globular body and a funnel-shaped neck. Four heads of deities are moulded on the shoulders of the vase. The central head represents Hermes, depicted with two open wings on either side of his face. On either side are two smaller heads of Apollo, portrayed with a radiating crown. At the back, at the base of the flat-section handle, is the head of a woman, likely Venus. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 06.1021.248a, b.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Illinois Private Collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 460mm x 430mm; Weight: 7.5kg.
98. APULIAN COLUMN KRATER WITH NIKE AND LADY OF FASHION BY THE CIRCLE OF TARPORLAY PAINTER
Ca. 350 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A red-figure column krater in an ornate style features handles adorned with painted palmettes. The intricate scenes on the krater include a central figure of a seated winged Nike, who wears a long chitón. She is adorned with a parure of pearls and a sakkos, and her head is decorated with a diadem. Surrounding her are flowers, animals, and possibly grass, creating a representation of a bucolic environment. The main scene is framed with geometric linear patterns and meanders at the bottom. On the neck of the krater, there is a large frieze depicting a horizontal branch with heart-shaped leaves in black pigment. Side B showcases a profile of a fashionable lady, portrayed with a rich and intricate parure and detailed sakkos. The central scene is framed with geometric motifs on the sides and meanders at the bottom. The rim of the vessel is embellished with a motif of waves. For similar see: Trendal A.D., Red Figure Vase of Apulia, 1978, Tarpolay Painter, Plate 16, n. 1-2.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 440mm x 300mm; Weight: 3.4kg
99. APULIAN BELL KRATER WITH NIKE RIDING A GRIFFON BY FELTON PAINTER CIRCLE
Ca. 350 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A large bell krater, painted in the red-figure style, with white/yellow details on one side. The iconography of the piece reflects important stories and symbolism in the life of the Greek colonies. On Side A is a draped seated woman riding a white griffon with outstretched detailed wings. In front of her a satyr playing the flute during walking. On his front, he has a maenad holding a thyrsus. On the other side, a woman made in white pigment holds a large mirror. Side B features three draped male figures standing in profile, one holding a walking stick. In addition to this iconography, the vessel is adorned by an extensive decorative program: a laurel leaf wreath beneath the rim, with fretted bands surrounding each handle’s termini, and a lower register underscoring the figural scene comprised of meanders. For similar see: Trendal A.D., Red Figure Vase of Apulia, 1978, Plate 57, n. 1; Plate 397, n. 5-6.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 370mm x 350mm; Weight: 3.5kg
100. APULIAN BELL KRATER DEPICTING MAENADS FROM THE CIRCLE OF BALTIMORE PAINTER
Ca. 350 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A bell krater, painted in the red-figure style, with white/yellow details on one side. The iconography of the piece reflects important stories and symbolism in the life of the Greek colonies. On Side A is a draped seated maenad holding a large patera in her right. She is facing back to a second maenad, who also holds a pyxis in her right hand; both are wearing a long kiton and short sakkos on the hair; the facial features are marked. Side B features three draped male figures standing in profile. In addition to this iconography, the vessel is adorned by an extensive decorative program: a laurel leaf wreath beneath the rim, an intricate pattern of stylised palmettes below the handles with fretted bands surrounding each handle’s termini, and a lower register underscoring the figural scene comprised of waves. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1978,0414.33, Trendal A.D., Red Figure Vase of Apulia, 1978, Plate 57, n. 1.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 375mm x 310mm; Weight: 3.2kg
101. APULIAN BELL KRATER DEPICTING SEATED APOLLO
Ca. 350 BC
A bell krater, painted in the red-figure style, with white/yellow details on one side. The iconography of the piece reflects important stories and symbolism in the life of the Greek colonies. On Side A is a naked seated man holding a large patera in his left and a long white thyrsus in his right. He is facing a standing draped woman, who also holds a thyrsus with her left hand and a white mirror in her outstretched right hand; between the two figures an intricate palmette. Side B features a pair of draped male figures standing in profile around a palmette. In addition to this iconography, the vessel is adorned by an extensive decorative program: a laurel leaf wreath beneath the rim, stylised palmettes below the handles with reserved bands surrounding each handle’s termini, and a lower register underscoring the figural scene comprised of waves.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 320mm x 290mm; Weight: 2.3kg
102. APULIAN RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER WITH SATYRS AND MAENADS FROM THE CIRCLE OF ARPI PAINTER - TL TESTED
Ca. 400 - 350 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A red-figure pottery bell krater with a large body, short splayed foot, a flanged mouth, and two well-preserved horizontal handles. The krater features traditional patterns, such as the laurel wreath under the lip and the meander pattern with crosses along the bottom of the body. Side “A” is adorned with a Dionysiac scene, depicting a central maenad seated with her back turned to a satyr who holds a large patera; surrounding this central image are maenads, satyrs, and a flying Nike. She is dressed in a notably distinctive garment and crowned with a large bichrome diadem. Side “B” showcases three standing, facing figures representing men who support themselves on two wooden sticks. This vessel can be attributed to the Arpi Painter or his circle, based on similarities in the decoration of the female attire, the prominent use of white pigment, and the unique form of the satyrs’ chest. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 2056, Antiquities, 9 December 2008; Trendall, 1983, Plate XVIII, n. 4 and 6.
Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman; formerly in a European Collection, France, bought in Paris in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 360mm x 335mm; Weight: 3.87kg
103. ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX WITH ORACLE SCENE FROM THE CIRCLE OF DOURIS - TL TESTED
Ca. 470 - 450 BC
Starting Price: £30000
An exemplary pottery kylix adorned with red-figure decoration of an oracle scene. The scene depicts a seated youth on an elegant chair, wearing a large himation, holding a long wooden stick in his right hand and a small bag in his left. To the right, a standing woman draped in a large folded himation is depicted. The scene is framed by a staggered meander motif border. The exterior walls is decorated with ten naked athletes in various poses. For similar see: Caskey L. D., Beazley J. D., Attic Vase Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 125, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 23.160.54.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market; Ex. Philip Goddard collection, acquired in 1985; formerly with Christopher Mann, London, UK. A copy of the original invoice from 1983 available. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 340mm x 135mm; Weight: 690g
104.
RARE GREEK BLACKGLAZED RHYTON IN THE SHAPE OF A BULL’S HEAD
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
A pottery rhyton covered in black glaze, formed in the shape of a bull’s head. The prominent head displays a pair of upward-curving light orange horns extending from the forehead. The eyes are detailed with white sclera and black pupils, while the nostrils are highlighted in orange. The muzzle exhibits naturalistic detailing. A D-shaped handle is positioned at the back, and the form concludes with a flaring spout. For similar see: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession Number S2013.3.
Provenance: Property of a London doctor; ex. private Colorado, USA collection; ex-Massachusetts collection, USA, acquired before 2000This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: 145mm x 210mm; Weight: 945g
105. LATE ATTIC BELL KRATER WITH SATYR AND MAENADSTL TESTED
Ca. 400 - 380 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A red-figure pottery bell krater with a large body, short splayed foot, flanged mouth, and two well-preserved horizontal handles. The vessel features traditional motifs, including a laurel wreath under the lip and a meander pattern with crosses near the base. Side “A” depicts a Dionysiac scene with a central satyr flanked by two maenads: one on the left in a long himation and the other on the right in a long chiton, holding a sceptre topped with a pine cone. Side “B” portrays three standing male figures, each facing forward and leaning on two wooden sticks. The krater is attributed to the Arpi Painter or his circle, as suggested by the detailed female attire, the prominent use of white pigment, and the distinctive depiction of the satyrs’ chest. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 06.1021.214.
Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman; formerly in a European Collection, France, bought in Paris in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 320mm x 310mm; Weight: 2.73kg
106. EXCEPTIONAL APULIAN POTTERY DISH WITH SEA CREATURES
Ca. 350 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A very rare pottery dish with an elevated foot and a thick flange rim. The recessed centre is adorned with a radiating pattern. The dish has a black glazed background, with a design painted in reddish-brown and beige tones, highlighted with white detailing. The decoration depicts various sea creatures, including two fish, one of which is long and serpentine, resembling an eel, an octopus or squid, and smaller sea animals such as a crab and a shrimp. The rim is decorated with flowing vegetal and floral tendrils encircling the entire perimeter. For similar see: The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Object Number 1980.62; The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Inventory number T.762.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 210mm x 55mm; Weight: 575g
107. GREEK BLACK FIGURE KYLIX WITH KOMASTHOI
Ca. 550 - 500 BC
Starting Price: £1500
A beautiful kylix, with a lip more defined than the rest of the body, standing on a hollow conical pedestal foot with a broad reserved band. In this example, the lip is undecorated; however, just beneath the lip and on the exterior wall is a lovely register featuring a skillfully delineated central figure of two horses and their driver, flanked by two dancing Komastoi and a bi-chrome palmette. A concentric circle adorns the tondo, as is customary for Attic ware. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 19738, Antiquties, Lot 57.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 2295mm x 125mm; Weight: 460g
108.
RARE GREEK TERRACOTTA MODEL OF ACTOR - EX CHRISTIE’S
Hellenistic period, Ca. 300 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A terracotta statuette of comic actor wearing the mask of an elderly man and a cap in the shape of a phallus with phallic-shaped lappets to the side; wearing a cloak over his shoulders, open to the front exposing his large belly and elongated erect phallus, woollen armbands to the elbows, hands extended forward; seated on a square chair with plinth to the front, small shoe to the right edge of plinth; traces of original polychromy preserved. The anatomical forms are deliberately exaggerated, a characteristic often seen in theatrical performances, highlighting the comic elements of the setting. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction, 9088, Fine Antiquities, Lot 229; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 13.225.16.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Christie’s 1996; Ex. Nancy Mallen, London 1972. A copy of Christie’s catalogue page attached. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 215mm x 130mm; Weight: 595g
109. COLLECTION OF ASSYRIAN BRONZE BODY ARMOUR
Ca. 800 - 700 BC
Starting Price:
£8000
A collection of bronze body armour including a bronze helmet in conical form, crafted from a single sheet of bronze and with cheek guards. The helmet features a slightly outward-curved calotte that culminates in a tall point. The lower edge of the helmet is pierced along the face cut-out, with pairs of holes arranged on the cheek guards and rear part for attaching a helmet lining that flanges to the outside. This helmet originates from the northern region of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and likely belonged to an Assyrian or Babylonian infantryman. Also included is a bronze pectoral collar, shaped from a thin hammered sheet. This U-shaped piece has a wider midsection than its tapering arms, which terminate in pointed ends. The central portion of the collar is adorned with three raised circular bosses, each flanked by attachment holes. Completing the collection is a bronze belt, made from hammered bronze and decorated in low relief or repoussé, showcasing a central band consisting of four horizontal rows of repeated figures, intermittently interrupted by large floral and geometric motifs, with each band bordered by a raised edge. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1867,0508.206; h; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: L.2017.18; Christie’s Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armours, Part II, Lot 62.
Provenance: Property of a London private collector; formerly in a European collection; acquired from Peter Ing till collection in early 2000s (Vienna); formerly in an old Austrian collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 390-400mm x 90-310mm; Weight: 965g
Ca. 500 - 450 BC
Starting Price: £20000
A fantastic Greek Corinthian hoplite bronze helmet, likely cast and then hammered into shape, belongs to a type known as Corinthian, characterised by almond-shaped eye holes, large cheek-pieces, and a wide nose-guard. This type also features holes for rivets, or metal fasteners, intended to secure liners. The helmet is in perfect, not restored condition with smooth green patina. One of the best preserved specimens on the market for the last several years! For similar see: Cleveland Museum of Art, n. 1926.54; Christie’s, Live Auction 19992, Antiquities, Lot. 41.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously in an English private collection since 2016; Ex. Marcus Prill collection, 2012; Ex. Wolfram Schmidt collection, 1970s. Copies of original invoices are available. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with an XRF laboratory report from the independent Belgian laboratory Hebolabo. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 260mm x 180mm; Weight: 1.2kg
110. STUNNING GREEK CORINTHIAN HOPLITE BRONZE HELMET
111. ILLYRIAN
Ca. 700 - 600 BC
WITH VOTIVE GOLD MASK AND GOLD INLAYS
Starting Price: £10000
A war helmet made of hammered bronze sheet, with a rectilinear opening for the face and long, pointed cheek pieces. This example exhibits a rich russet-green patina and represents a somewhat more impressive example of Type II, variant A, with a more pronounced dome-like form.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. Peter Ing Till collection, Vienna, Austria; formerly with Austrian collector since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 290mm x 230mm; Weight: 1.71kg, weight of gold is over 30 grams.
HELMET
112. STUNNING CHALCIDIAN BRONZE HELMET WITH SILVER DISCS
Ca. 500 - 400 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A striking Chalcidian helmet comprised of hammered bronze. This type of helmet is distinguished by its curved cheekpieces adorned with silver discs, which are attached here by thin bronze pins that form a hinge. A teardrop-shaped nose guard extends down from raised curves demarcating the eyes. The forehead features a sweeping central ridge and an overhanging brow line. Curves on the sides allow the ears to be left exposed, enhancing battlefield communication. For similar see: British Museum Museum number 1919,1119.6.
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the Austrian art market in the 1980s.
Size: 320mm x 260mm; Weight: 1.1kg
Ca. 500 - 400 BC
Starting Price: £10000
A Greek armour comprising a pectoral and the straps. The pectoral, or panoply, is composed of a central three-lobed guard formed by three raised hemispheres. This design held both symbolic and functional significance, as metal with this particular shape was more durable. The straps comprises two main rectangular-shaped elements, featuring a movable connection at the centre to allow for flexibility. The finials are adorned with the palmette motif, characteristic of the Etruscan period. .
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the Austrian art market in the 1980s.
Size: 60-270mm x 190-270mm; Weight: 1.1kg
113. GREEK BRONZE TREFOIL PECTORAL
114. GREEK BRONZE GREAVES
Ca. 550 - 500 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A pair of matching bronze greaves. Each features simple decorations, including vertical lines and spirals defining the calf muscles, along with multiple pierced holes around the edges for securing leather straps. A beautiful green patina envelopes these iconic objects. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: L.2017.18; Christie’s Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armours, Part II, Lot 62.
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the Austrian art market in the 1980s.
Size: 410-440mm x 90-100mm; Weight: 1.39kg
115. GREEK BRONZE PHRYGIAN HELMET
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A leaded-bronze Phrygian helmet with a distinctive conical body and a curved terminus, a flat protruding rim, pierced holes for cheek plates, and a downturned neck guard flap. The helmet’s name derives from its shape, particularly the high and forward-inclined apex, resembling the caps worn by Phrygian and Thracian peoples. Most Phrygian helmets, like other Greek helmets, were made of bronze; the domed cap of the helmet is typically constructed from two halves connected in the middle by a bronze hammered band. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 2323, Antiquities, Lot 96, Live Auction 2450, Antiquities, Lot 118; The British Museum, Museum number 1844,0511.39.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the German art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 270mm x 210mm; Weight: 1.19kg.
116. CELT - IBERIAN BATTLE DAGGER WITH SCABBARD
Ca. 600 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A rare forged iron battle dagger with a scabbard adorned with decorative bronze bands. The guard has two preserved wooden panels, each terminating in a projecting, elongated rhomb-shaped pommel. The handle area may have once been wrapped in leather to make it easier to grip. The blade itself is flat and possibly made to be sharpened only on one side based on its shape. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number ML.1595.
Provenance: Provenance: Property of a London gallery; Ex. Axel Guttmann.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 245-410mm x 45-50mm; Weight: 815g
Starting Price: £10000
A rare and important shallow rectangular tray with incised palmettes to the corners, arcaded band to the inner face of the flanged border, narrow parcel-gilt band to the outer face of the upstand; separately cast sphinxes with lion-paw foot to each corner, wings outspread supporting each corner of the tray.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. an important North London collection formed before 1980. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a metallurgic analytical report, written by Metallurgist Dr Brian Gilmour of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, report number 610/130537. Literature: Cf. Sharvit, T., ‘A Marble Sphinx Statue from Horvat Omrit’ in Israel Studies in Archaeology’, pp.97-116, fig.15; Pfrommer, M., Metalwork from the Hellenized East, catalogue of the collections, Malibu, 1993, for discussion.
Size: 560mm x 310mm; Weight: 2.85kg
117. GREEK HELLENISTIC SILVER SALVER WITH SIRENS
Ca. 3rd-2nd century BC
118. EASTERN GREEK RECUMBENT STAG-SHAPED SILVER RHYTHON - XRF TESTED
Ca. 500 BC
Starting Price: £20000
An important silver rhyton, a type of drinking horn, with a tall, conical body featuring repeating lengthwise ribs and a short flared rim. The most remarkable aspect of this rhyton is the mythical beast at the base, likely a recumbent stag with long, curved, and decorated horns. The head is finely detailed with almond-shaped eyes and a long muzzle. Between the frontal paws, a small cylindrical spout is located. The bottom is characterised by a short funnel pedestal. For similar see: Traci: Arte e Cultura nelle Terre di Bulgaria dalle Origini alla Tarda Romanita, n. Cat. 144, Tesoro di Borovo, Razgard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 1989.281.30a, b.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentleman, acquired in France between 2000-2005; previously with A. Kotlar; Ex. French collection since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with a full metallurgical laboratory report from the independent Belgian laboratory Hebolabo. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 190mm x 205mm; Weight: 390g
Starting Price: £8000
Ca. 500 BC
A heavy cast silver phiale, a special libation vessel used for holding wine, with a hollow, rounded, raised boss, known as an omphalos at the centre. The lower part of the bowl is scalloped, leading to a corseted neck adorned with incised teardrop motifs that encircle it. The neck flares outward into a wide, smooth mouth with an unpronounced rim. A cuneiform inscription is present near the edge of the rim. A similar example hammered for $8,225 at Christie’s, Live Auction 9380, Antiquities, 13 June 2000, Lot 499. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1994,0127.1, Muscarella O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, n. cat. 327. A similar example hammered for $8,225 at Christie’s, Live Auction 9380, Antiquities, 13 June 2000, Lot 499.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired from the private collection of Mr. R. Unger; previously with a London gallery; acquired in the 1970s on the UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 245mm x 45mm; Weight: 485g
119. RARE EASTERN GREEK SILVER PHIALE WITH CUNEIFORM SCRIPT
Ca. 500 BC
Starting Price: £4000
A jar with an ovoid body with a pointed base. The fluted body is decorated with protruding knots under the neck, which is embellished with moulded raised lines. For similar see: Sotheby’s, Master Sculpture from Four Millennia, 3 July 2024, Lot 33 (shape).
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; Ex, Oliver Hoare, 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.. Size: Size: 165mm x 105mm; Weight: 255g
120. RARE GREEK SILVER JAR
120B. NEAR EASTERN INSCRIBED STONE MACE HEADORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 2200 - 2080 BC
A rare stone mace head. On one side there are seven lines of inscribed Sumerian cuneiform. The following is a translation: [to the god... for the life of....] mighty king, king of Ur, king of the four world regions, Nur-Ea, son of Qurad-ili, temple administrator, made (this mace head). Nur-Ea was probably one of the lost kings of UR of the third dynasty probably Amar-Sin or Shu-Sin. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 22445.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London collections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 60mm x 46mm; Weight: 108g Starting
121. GREEK CUT GLASS SKYPHOS
Ca. 300 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £4000
A Greek pale green cut glass skyphos with vertical walls that taper towards the rim and a splayed circular foot. The bowl features integral ring handles formed between projecting plates, the upper with a forked terminal, the lower rounded. This vessel was produced using casting techniques, and was then lathe-cut and polished. For similar see: MET Museum Object Number: 81.10.94; Christie’s, Live Auction 5488, Antiquities, Lot. 46.
Provenance: Property of a London collector; Ex. Private collection, Shrewsbury, England. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 80mm x 180mm; Weight: 260g
122. GREEK BRONZE MIRROR AND COVER WITH HIGH RELIEF
Ca. Late 4th century BC
Starting Price: £8000
A bronze mirror and cover with high relief depicting Venus and Eros. Circular in form the lid with hammered sheet repussé appliqué. The two figures are standing each on either side. Eros on the left with his wings outstretched. His left hand supporting the top bowl of the incense stand, his right arm lowered. Aphrodite to the right wears a long chiton. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 07.256a, b; The British Museum, Museum number 1888,1213.1.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Christie’s NY, 9 June 2011, lot 109; Ex. Private collection, London, 1975. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 240mm x 145mm; Weight: 1.17kg
123. HELLENISTIC ALABASTER VESSEL
Ca. 300 - 100 BC
Starting Price: £3000
An alabaster vessel with an inverted pear-shaped body connected to a large neck and everted rim. The foot is pedestal-shaped and the handle is decorated with a naturalistic swan head that faces backwards.
Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the French market in the 1970s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 250mm x 150mm; Weight: 3kg
124. RARE GREEK SOLID GOLD RING WITH APOLLO AND CENTAURS
Ca. 400 BC
Starting Price: £5000
A gold 21 ct ring with a polygonal section round hoop tapering to the shoulders to form an oval bezel engraved with the image of god Apollo on the left driving a biga of two centaurs.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. US art market; Ex. F. Hebb, collected before 1980. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.34mm / US: 8 1/4 / UK: Q; Weight: 13g
126. BEAUTIFUL HELLENISTIC SET OF GOLD NECKLACE AND EARRINGS
Ca. 200 BC - AD 100
Starting Price: £3000
A set of gold jewellery consisting of a necklace and a pair of earrings. The necklace is crafted with a gold chain and features a central oval-shaped agate stone displaying muted brownish-grey and lightbrownish-grey banding. Flanking the central agate are two smaller ruby-red stones positioned just above the base of the oval centrepiece. The pair of matching gold earrings each features a small loop, from which hangs a drop-shaped cell inlaid with a ruby-red stone and bordered by fine filigree. Below each drop-shaped cell is a cluster of two gold bell-shaped pendants.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 40-210mm x 20-35mm; Weight: 27g
127. LATE ROMAN GOLD RING WITH ALMOND-SHAPED GEMSTONE
Ca. AD 250 - 450
A gold ring composed of a flat-section round hoop, joined to a prominent rectangular-shaped flat bezel bordered by a serrated decorative design, creating a crown-like outline around the central setting. The centre of the bezel features a raised, oval-shaped cell housing a pale blue gemstone, securely inlaid within a surrounding granite stone. The gemstone is smoothly polished, contrasting with the textured surface of the bezel and the granite inlay. The underside of the bezel is flat, aligning seamlessly with the hoop.
Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report from Striptwist Ltd, a London-based company run by precious metal specialist Dr Jack Ogden.
Size: D:17.73mm / US: 7 1/2 / UK: O 1/2; Weight: 10g
128. GREEK GOLD RING WITH ATHENA NIKEPHOROS
Ca. 400 BC
A gold signet ring with a thin, round-section hoop leading to a large, oval-shaped bezel. The bezel is engraved with Athena Nikephoros seated in a draped garment, wearing her characteristic helmet. A shield rests beside her, and a spear leans to one side. Her extended right hand supports a winged Nike, holding a wreath aloft. Fine etching details accentuate the textures of her attire.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the German art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:17.93mm / US: 7 3/4 / UK: P; Weight: 10g Starting
129. HELLENISTIC GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO DEPICTING PROMETHEUS
Ca. 300 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A gold ring with a D-section hoop that enlarges at the shoulders to form a bezel, securing a circular carnelian intaglio. The intaglio depicts, in a naturalistic manner, the Greek god Prometheus working with a metal object, wielding fire and a hammer.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:20.17mm / US: 10 1/2 / UK: U 1/2; Weight: 20g
130. RARE HELLENISTIC PYRAMIDAL PENDANT IN GOLD MOUNT
Ca. 300 - 100 BC
Starting Price: £2000
A large pyramidal semi-precious stone pendant set in a gold mount, adorned with gold pellets arranged in vertical lines. The gold top is pierced horizontally and decorated with a wave-shaped gold thread.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 40mm x 20mm; Weight: 10g
131. GREEK CARNELIAN AND GOLD NECKLACE
Ca. 1st millennium BC
Starting Price: £500
A necklace composed of striated agate and carnelian beads, alternating with pearl and gold beads, creates a colour balance that was extremely fashionable in antiquity, where red was often combined with pearls. The beads feature globular and natural shapes. The necklace is secured at the back with a hook and hoop mechanism. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction, 4925, Ancient Jewelry, Lot 346.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 230/460mm x 10mm; Weight: 36g
133. EASTERN GREEK / WESTERN ASIATIC CARNELIAN NECKLACE
Ca. 1st millennium BC
Starting Price: £5000
A necklace composed of striated agate and carnelian beads, alternating with openwork gold beads, creates a colour balance that was extremely fashionable in antiquity, where red was often combined with gold. The beads feature geometric shapes such as tubular, diamond-shaped, circular, and elongated. The necklace is secured at the back with a hook and hoop mechanism. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 4925, Antiquities, Lot 345.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 255/510mm x 18mm; Weight: 50g
140. GREEK BLACK-GLAZED GUTTUS WITH PROFILE OF EROS
Ca. 300 BC
Starting Price: £200
A classic blackware guttus form with a rounded, ribbed body, a single loop handle, and a high spout with a funnel mouth, all on a raised foot. The tondo is decorated in a low-relief scene depicting Eros in profile. The vessel is covered in a jet-black glaze, and scattered areas of faint iridescence complement the lustrous colour, a reserved band around the pedestal. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1952,0408.1.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995.
Size: 90mm x 90mm; Weight: 170g
141. HELLENISTIC GOLD PENDANT WITH OVAL CHALCEDONY CABOCHON
Ca. 300 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A pendant features a high gold frame elegantly adorned along its walls. It houses a mottled blue cabochon chalcedony stone at its centre. At the top of the pendant, there are two gold hoops that can be used to attach it to a chain. For similar see: Marschall F.H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, British Museum, Plate XLVI, LI; Christie’s, Live Auction 2771, Ancient Jewellery, Lot 258 (shape of the cabochon).
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 30mm x 28mm; Weight: 12g
143. MASSIVE HELLENISTIC BRONZE RING WITH APOLLO CITHAROEDUS
Ca. 100 BC
Starting Price: £500
A Stunning bronze ring with a D-section hoop that enlarges at the shoulders to form an oval bezel, securing an agate intaglio depicting Apollo Citharoedus made in naturalistic manner typical of the last period of the Roman Republic.
Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:16.51mm / US: 6 / UK: L 1/2; Weight: 20g
145. APULIAN BELL KRATER WITH FEMALE GREETING A
WARRIOR
Ca. 350 BC
Starting Price: £1500
A large bell krater, painted in the red-figure style, with white/yellow details on one side. The iconography of the piece reflects important stories and symbolism in the life of the Greek colonies. On Side A is a draped seated woman holding a large patera in her left hand. She stands facing a standing man, who holds a thyrsus casually against his upper left arm and a handled vessel in his outstretched right hand. Side B features a pair of draped male figures standing in profile, one holding a walking stick. In addition to this iconography, the vessel is adorned by an extensive decorative program: a laurel leaf wreath beneath the rim, stylised palmettes below the handles with fretted bands surrounding each handle’s termini, and a lower register underscoring the figural scene comprised of waves. For similar see: MET Museum Museum number 1978,0414.33; Object reference number:1836,0224.175.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 265mm x 290mm; Weight: 1.6kg
147. APULIAN KANTHAROS WITH NIKE
Ca. 400 - 350 BC
Starting Price: £800
A red-figure kantharos boasting a pair of sweeping high handles with support struts, and moulded maskettes at the interior join to the rim and the exterior join to the base. The flared cup’s body sits upon a tall stem with a tiered foot. Each face of the exterior walls is beautifully adorned with a red-figure flying Nike portrait wearing a saccos (headscarf) with pearl strands and hairpins, a drop earring, and a pearl necklace - all detailed with fugitive white and yellow-orange paint. A row of cresting leaves adorns the exterior of the rim while a lustrous black glaze envelops the interior, handles, stem, and foot. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1856,1226.104.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Peter van der Elst, Liege, 1987.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 180mm x 185mm; Weight: 380g
165. COLLECTION OF GREEK BRONZE HORNED ANIMALS
Ca. 800 - 500 BC
Starting Price: £800
A collection of three horned animals, each crafted from bronze and standing on all fours. The first animal has a short body and legs, with high, curved horns pointing upwards. The second is slender, with long legs and horns that curl backwards. The third exhibits a prominent snout, short legs, and curled horns.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 50-80mm x 60-75mm; Weight: 280g
182. GNATHIAN SKYPHOS WITH GRAPEVINE MOTIF
Ca. 330 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £500
A particularly nice example of a typical drinking cup from Southern Italy in the highly decorative Gnathian style. The vessel is decorated with geometric and vegetal motifs on a black background. The decoration on the front side includes a highly stylised vine pattern consisting of grapes, leaves, and tendrils around a central polychrome palmette. The backside features a simple transverse band of ivy from which descend three vine tendrils. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 21909, Antiquities, Lot 49.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982.
Size: 165mm x 100mm; Weight: 135g
188. VERY HEAVY HELLENISTIC GOLD RING WITH COMIC ACTOR
Ca. 200 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A gold 23 ct ring with a D-section hoop enlarged on the shoulders to form an oval bezel securing a carnelian intaglio depicting an old bald man with a large belly. It is probably a theatre comic actor resting on a wooden stick. For similar see: Christie’s Live Auction, 9599, Antiquities, 13 May 2003, Lot 104.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. New York City Collection, purchased from Suzanne Khayat, NYC. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:16.31mm / US: 5 3/4 / UK: L; Weight: 27g
189. GREEK HELLENISTIC GOLD BROOCH WITH CARNELIAN STONE
Ca. 300 - 100 BC
Starting Price: £1500
A gold brooch displaying intricate filigree work in a symmetrical quatrefoil design. The borders are formed by rods with double-scrolled ends. Each compartment within the design is set with a circular blue inlay. At the centre, an oval gemstone is inset within a gold cell and framed by filigree. The back is flat and unworked, fitted with three catches: two aligned at one end and a single catch at the other.
Provenance: Private UK collection; formerly with R. A.; since the 1990s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 54mm x 45mm; Weight: 10.1g
190. VIKING BRACTEATE SILVER AND GOLD PENDANT
Ca. 300 - 100 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A silver and gold Viking bracteate pendant with a round shape, featuring a central portrait of a king or a warrior. The portrait is encircled by a silver band adorned with a hammered spiral motif. At the top, a large silver hoop.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. M. H. collection, Kensington, acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 40mm x 35mm; Weight: 3g
191. GREEK GOLD LION-SHAPED FINIAL
Ca. 500 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A bracelet finial designed in the shape of a lion’s head, featuring pronounced contours and large, almond-shaped eyes framed by prominent eyebrows. The elongated muzzle includes a distinct mouth, nose, and moustache. The lion’s skin is depicted using a dotted pattern.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 33mm x 13mm; Weight: 5g
195. GREEK BRONZE STRIGIL
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A bronze strigil with a concave scoop blade and a loop handle. This implement is designed to scrape away dirt, sweat, and oil from the skin, particularly after exercise. Strigils were commonly utilised in baths and by athletes, promoting cleanliness and health in daily rituals. For similar see: The Harvard Art Museums, Object Number 1983.7.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 240mm x 45mm; Weight: 120g
196. GREEK BRONZE STRIGIL
Ca. 400 - 300 BC
Starting Price: £1000
A bronze strigil, a cleaning tool traditionally used in ancient baths and athletic training. This implement features a long, curving blade that tapers to a rounded point, designed for scraping dirt and sweat from the body. The tool is equipped with a loop handle, allowing for a firm grip during use. For similar see: The Harvard Art Museum, Object Number 1960.484.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 290mm x 35mm; Weight: 110g
197. ATTIC SESSILE KANTHAROS
Ca. 400 - 370 BC
Starting Price: £500
A fabulous cylindrical cup with a flaring lip that meets the rounded bowl at an angle. The curved strap handles curve to join the area just beneath the lip to the mid-section of the body. The exterior walls on each side of the vase are elaborately painted from top to bottom: a band of tongues, a panel of alternating red and black columns with arrow-like motifs in black and white on one side, a panel of nested leaf-like forms also in red and black with added white details, and finally a continuous band of running wave motifs. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1814,0704.523. Christie’s, Live Auction 7207, Antiquties, Lot 259.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgium art market; Daniel Bogaerts, Brussels, 1995.
Size: 130mm x 165mm; Weight: 305g
200. ATTIC RED-FIGURE SKYPHOS WITH OWL
Ca. 500 - 400 BC
Starting Price: £800
A pottery skyphos covered with a black glaze and decorated with red-figure owls. Each is flanked by vertical laurel branches. The conical-shaped body tapers down to a disc base, while D-shaped horizontal handles are symmetrically positioned on opposite sides. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 2001.761.5.; Christie’s, Live Auction 7207, Lot. 247.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the Swiss art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 120mm x 55mm; Weight: 50g
205. GRAECO-ROMAN AMPHORA FROM A SHIPWRECK
Ca. 600 - 400 BC
Starting Price: £800
A pottery amphora with a conical base, smooth body, tubular neck and collared rim, and a pair of bifurcated handles that arch up from just under the rim and end at the rounded shoulder. The marine encrustations on the body of the vessel show that it was recovered from a shipwreck. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 53.70.
Provenance: Private London collection, B.A.; formerly in pre-2000 European collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 590mm x 420mm; Weight: 11.4kg
206. LARGE PAIR OF ROMAN MARBLE HARPOCRATES FIGURES
Ca. AD 100-300
Starting Price: £5000
A pair of exquisite Roman marble statues depicting the Roman god of silence, secrets and confidentiality, Harpocrates. The statues depict the god with a short, chubby body, elbow resting on a pillar in a slight contrapposto pose. The heads of the statues are nearly identical, with broad, flat noses, full lips and small, heavy-lidded eyes, all framed by luxurious curling locks of hair that cascade to the shoulders. There is some differentiation between the figures, as one is depicted with a pot belly and less developed pectoral muscles than the other. Harpocrates, a god of Graeco-Egyptian origin, was the son of Isis and Osiris and was frequently represented as a chubby infant or young man with his finger to his mouth, making these examples rare variations of the type. He was assimilated into Roman religion, and the aforementioned gesture, once signifying youth, was misinterpreted by the Romans as a sign of silence (Ovid, Meta., 9.688ff).
Provenance: From a private French collection; acquired from Helios Ancient Art, London, UK, in 1990; formerly forming part of a West Sussex estate, acquired between the 1960s-1970s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 660-690mm x 250-280mm; Weight: 18kg/20.8kg
207. IMPORTANT OVER LIFE SIZE MARBLE PORTRAIT OF A SEVERAN LADY, POSSIBLY JULIA DOMNA
Ca. Early 3rd century AD
Starting Price: £20000
An over-life-sized portrait, gracefully sculpted, the Empress is portrayed as a mature woman, her oval-shaped face is smooth with a round dimpled chin. Her bow-shaped lips are gently ajar, her characteristic bulging almond-shaped eyes articulated with kidney-shaped pupils and drilled irises, her upper lids drooping, the bridge of her slender nose merging with her gracefully arching brows, their feathering lightly incised, her hair parted in the centre and cascading in undulating waves, framing her face and concealing most of her ears, with a thin braid above the waves, all pulled back into an elaborately braided chignon, with a wispy tendril in lower relief before each ear, and a single tendril falling on the left side of her neck. These details given by the sculptor are a testament to the portrait’s realism and heighten the contrast between the gentle, relaxed, motionless face of the subject and her wavy, heavy, voluminous hairstyle. This portrait thus reflects part of the daily life of Roman women. For similar see: Christie’s, Antiquities 8890, 5 October 2000, lot 241; Yale University of Art, Accession Number 2010.143.1; Musee de Louvre, Accession Number: MNB 783: MA 1104. Cf. Hans Jucker and Dietrich Willers, Gesichter: Griechische und römische Bildnisse aus Schweizer Besitz, exh. cat. (Bern: Archaeologisches Seminar der Universität Bern, 1983), 166-67, no. 68, ill. Flemming Johansen, Roman Portraits: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 3 vols. (Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1994–95), vol. 3, p. 28.
Provenance: Private collection of a London doctor; previously with a London Ancient Art Gallery; acquired from an old Suffolk, UK collection, 1980s; formerly in 19th century English collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with an authenticating report from Prof. John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology, History, and Classics and USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Size: L:555mm / W:270mm; 35.07kg
Starting Price: £20000
A marble statue of Venus, inspired by the Venus of the Capitol and attributed to Cephisodotus the Younger, depicts the goddess emerging from the bath in a nude pose. The statue’s refined forms, extremely smooth surfaces, and high-quality marble suggest it was made by one of the imperial workshops in Rome. Notable comparisons can be drawn with the statues in the Borghese collection, including the Venus Pudica and the Venus Marina. For similar see: I Borghese e L’antico, Skira editore, Cat. 19, 27 and fig. 12 p. 55; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: L.2023.5.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Parthenon Galley; Ex. Marcus Prill 2013; Ex. Swiss collection 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with a report from Prof. John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology, History, and Classicsand USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Size: 950mm x 400mm; Weight: Plus 25kg
208. ROMAN OVER LIFE SIZE
MARBLE VENUS STATUE OF CAMPIDOGLIO
Ca. AD 160
209.
Ca. AD 100 - 200
MARBLE BUST OF NOBLE WOMAN
Starting Price: £8000
A marble bust of a noblewoman. The subject bears a solemn expression, gazing to her right, with wavy locks framing her face and combed to the back in a style reminiscent of Faustina the Elder, wife of Emperor Antoninus Pius. Her garments include a thinly carved, crisply pleated dress through which light passes in places, and an overgarment with deep folds suggesting a thick material, possibly wool. Size: 380mm x 260mm; Weight: 6.7kg.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. Dino and Raffaello Tomasso Gallery; UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: Size: 380mm x 260mm; Weight: 6.7kg
SUPERB ROMAN
Julio-Claudian Period, Ca. 27 BC - 68 AD
Starting Price: £15000
A marble head of a youthful male with idealised features. Notice that the sculptor presents this individual’s visage with clean-shaven skin and handsome features such as deep-set eyes, an aquiline nose (losses as shown), slightly parted lips, soft facial planes, and closely cropped, wavy hair. The classic features and treatment of the eyes suggest that the head was created during the Julio-Claudian Period.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. Dino and Raffaello Tomasso Gallery; UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy..
Size: Size: 440mm x 230mm; Weight: 42kg
210. RARE OVER-LIFE SIZE ROMAN HEAD OF A NOBLEMAN
210A. IMPORTANT LIFE-SIZE JULIO-CLAUDIAN HEAD OF A NOBLEMAN
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £8000
A handsome, realistic marble head of a youth with a close-cropped wavy/curled coiffure framing a handsome face with attractive features such as generously lidded, almond-shaped, eyes, arched brows leading to his nose, closed full lips, a defined chin, and well-modelled naturalistic facial planes.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. Dino and Raffaello Tomasso Gallery; UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 240mm x 210mm; Weight: 17.8kg
211. ROMAN SEVERAN MARBLE HEAD OF YOUTH
Starting Price: £2000
Ca. AD 175 - 220
A finely carved marble head of a male youth with a handsome countenance, featuring generously lidded wide-open eyes with delineated pupils. He has softly arched brows, an aquiline nose, cup-shaped ears, closed bow-shaped lips, creases between the brows suggesting thought and a slightly dimpled chin. All crowned by a curly coiffure.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 240mm x 170mm; Weight: 9.4kg
212. STUNNING OVER LIFE-SIZE ROMAN MARBLE FOOT OF EMPEROR HADRIAN OR MARCUS AURELIUS
Ca. AD 150 - 250
Starting Price: £20000
A marble left foot with five elongated toes, delineated toenails, and an upward-arching bridge. The foot is depicted wearing a caliga, the shoe of the legionaries, adorned with intricate decorative patterns characteristic of emperors. The laces at the top are surrounded by a motif of spirals or studs extending along the back of the foot. Stylised plant motifs adorn the sides, culminating at the heel with vertical acanthus leaves. The footwear is finished with a folded lion skin at ankle height. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 28.57.7.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. American collection; Ex. Gordon Eberts, Toronto, Canada, before 1983. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with a report from Prof. John Pollini, Professor of Classical Art, Archaeology, History, and Classics and USC Associates Endowed Professor in Art History, Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Size: 285mm x 215mm; Weight: 7.41kg
213. LATE ROMAN GOLD RING WITH BURNED AGATE - 33 GRAMS
Ca. AD 200 - 400
Starting Price:
A solid 21.8 ct gold openwork ring with an angular hoop, enlarged at the shoulders and embellished with double volutes, forms a bezel that houses a two-coloured agate with a burnt surface. For similar see: El legado de Hefesto, n. 458, p. 181, Sotheby’s, Ancient sculpture and works of art, Lot. 257, 07 July 2023.; The British Museum, Museum number 1917,0501.802.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:16.1mm / US: 5 1/2 / UK: K 1/2; Weight: 33g
214. LATE ROMAN GOLD RING DEPICTING HELENA AND THEODORA - STUNNING
Ca. AD 200 - 400
Starting Price: £8000
A gold 22.6 ct ring comprising of a D-section hoop with angled triangular shoulders and scrolled edges. The ellipsoid bezel features a gold cell depicting two noblewomen, Helena and Theodora, identified as the mother and wife of Constantine the Great. The figures are rendered facing each other in a naturalistic manner, with hairstyles characteristic of the middle imperial period.
Provenance: Private collection, London, UK. ex. F. Piket 1970s, Netherlands. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a full authentication report by Sami Fortune, an ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.15mm / US: 9 1/4 / UK: S; Weight: 17g
215. ROMAN GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO DEPICTING SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS
Ca. AD 175 - 215
Starting Price: £3000
A gold ring with a shallow D-section hoop. It is connected to a round bezel that secures a carnelian intaglio depicting the Emperor Septimius Severus in profile. The carnelian is intricately engraved with detailed features of the face, beard, and hair, with a prominent laurel crown adorning the emperor’s head. For similar see: La collezione glitica Santarelli, n 45b.
Provenance: Private London collection; Formerly in a Swiss family collection. Geneva art market 1980s-early 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report from Striptwist Ltd, a London-based company run by precious metal specialist Dr Jack Ogden.
Size: D:18.95mm / US: 9 / UK: R 1/2; Weight: 7g
216. ROMAN GOLD INTAGLIO RING DEPICTING MINERVA
Ca. AD 300
Starting Price: £800
A solid gold ring with an angular hoop, enlarged at the shoulders and embellished with double volutes and geometric patterns. It forms a bezel housing an orange carnelian intaglio depicting a standing Minerva. For similar see: Bagot J., El legado de Hefesto: A Memorial to a Private Collection of Ancient Rings and Glyptics, n. 326; The British Museum, Museum number 1872,0604.121.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.34mm / US: 8 1/4 / UK: Q; Weight: 11g
217. STUNNING ROMAN BRONZE STATUETTE OF JUPITER WITH SILVER INLAID
EYES
Ca. AD 200
Starting Price: £15000
A superb bronze figure of Jupiter rendered with immaculate detail. It exhibits a muscular physique as he stands dynamically in contrapposto. Shown nude, his athletic figure displays strong pectorals and delineated genitalia. His divine countenance is comprised of a furrowed brow, a noble nose, and small lips, all framed by a bushy coiffure and a short beard almost resembling a lion’s mane. A wreath of oak leaves crowns his head. His left hand is raised, likely having previously held a sceptre symbolising his power as king of the gods, while he lowers his right arm. This piece is accompanied by an original stand.
Provenance: Property of a Sussex, UK, private collector; acquired in Munich, Germany in 2014; formerly acquired on the Bavarian art market in the 1990s; Art Loss Register Certificate: number 7944.CV dated 15 December 2014. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 280mm x 90mm; Weight: 495g
218. IMPORTANT ROMAN SILVER DECORATED SKYPHOS
Ca. 50 BC
Starting Price: £10000
A silver skyphos standing on a baluster stem with a chased foot. The vessel was assembled from separate parts, including the foot and the two sections of the handles. Two gilt decorative bands of oval and dart mouldings (kyma and kyma reversa) accented with beading, are chased around the upper portion of the cup. The ring handles feature additional finger rests at the bottom. For similar see: Bandinelli, B. R., Roma, l’arte romana nel centro del potere, Milano, 1969, fig.227; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 20.49.2.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. private collection; formerly acquired on the Germany art market in 1996; formerly in a private German collection since the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 190mm x 115mm; Weight: 270g
219. SCARCE ROMAN GLADIUS WITH ORIGINAL BONE HANDLE
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting
An iron gladio of a bifacial design bearing a shallow midrib, sharp edges, and a pointed tip. Situated along the tang is a hand guard with an incised triangle, its original carved bone decorated handle grip, an adjustable ringlet with a sharp central carnation, and an almost spherical-shaped pommel with incised circles. Very rare, museum quality gladius!
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the German art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports :This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 500mm x 60mm; Weight: 430g
Starting Price: £3000
Ca. AD 1 - 100
A glass dish of translucent blue colour with a broad, shallow body resting on a concave, elevated foot, bearing a pontil scar inside. The rounded rim frames the dish, and the interior slopes gently toward the centre, forming a slight central depression. Patches of natural incrustation are present on the surface. For similar see: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Object Number: 76.AF.29.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 45mm x 190mm; Weight: 245g
220. ROMAN GREEN GLASS FOOTED DISH
221. ROMAN GLASS FLASK WITH RIBS
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A glass flask with an onion-shaped body and a concave base. The tubular neck leads to a pronounced rim, while the neck and upper body are adorned with delicately rendered vertical ribs. The surface displays areas of iridescence.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 140mm x 90mm; Weight: 80g
223. ROMAN BLUE GLASS BEAKER
Ca. AD 1 - 100
Starting Price: £1000
A tall cobalt blue opaque glass beaker resting on a splayed foot. The body flares gently towards the opening and is decorated with shallow wheel-cut grooves around the base and below the rim. For similar see: The Corning Museum of Glass, Accession Number 68.1.68.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 60mm x 35mm; Weight: 30g
224. LARGE ROMAN BRONZE JUG
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A bronze jug with a large body tapering to a narrow neck, joined to a folded rim with a diagonal spout. The rim is connected to the neck by a strap-moulded handle adorned with an incised geometric motif at the base.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 340mm x 235mm; Weight: 2.37kg
226. RARE ROMAN BLACK STONE THEATRE
MASK
Ca. AD 100
Starting Price: £2000
An impressive black stone theatre mask with realistically rendered facial features. It has a coiffure featuring curled bangs with long ringlets falling to either side of the chin, a long moustache, open mouth and a pronounced helmet or diadem atop. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 12240, Antiquities, 6 December 2006, Lot 41.; The British Museum, Museum number 2010,5006.1377.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 135mm x 120mm; Weight: 1.05kg
227. VERY HEAVY ROMAN GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO DEPICTING VENUS
Ca. AD 150 - 300
Starting Price:
A gold 22 ct ring with a shallow D-section hoop. It is enlarged on the shoulders and connected to an oval bezel that secures a carnelian intaglio depicting standing Venus in a bath. The gemstone is engraved with details of the body and the dress.For similar see: La collezione glitica Santarelli, n 84c.
Provenance: Private London collection; Formerly in a Swiss family collection. Geneva art market 1980s-early 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: D:19.15mm / US: 9 1/4 / UK: S; Weight: 20g
228. ROMAN GOLD RING WITH CARNELIAN INTAGLIO DEPICTING CASTOR AND POLLUX
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1500
A gold 21.8 ct ring with a D-section hoop enlarged on the shoulders to form an oval bezel securing a carnelian intaglio depicting Castor and Pollux with their horses probably in a scene of “Deux Ex Machina”.
Provenance: Private UK collection; formerly with R. A.; since the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:17.73mm / US: 7 1/2 / UK: O 1/2; Weight: 10g
229. ROMAN OPENWORK GOLD RING WITH SCORPION INTAGLIO
Ca. AD 300
Starting Price: £800
A gold openwork ring, composed of a round hoop that expands at the shoulders to form a round bezel, securing a red garnet intaglio depicting a stylised scorpion. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1917,0501.543.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication report from Striptwist Ltd, a London-based company run by precious metal specialist Dr Jack Ogden. This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:13.3mm / US: 2 / UK: D; Weight: 5g
230. ROMAN AMETHYST INTAGLIO DEPICTING MINERVA AND VICTORY IN GOLD RING
Ca. 100 BC - AD 100
Starting Price: £1000
The gemstone is a deep purple amethyst intaglio, engraved with Minerva seated on a pile of rocks. Minerva wears a helmet, with a shield beside her, and extends her left hand towards a winged Victory, who reaches out with both hands. The gemstone is set in a 21ct, possibly later gold ring with an ornate hoop adorned with floral-shaped patterns forming a support structure for the central gemstone. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 2010,5006.698; 1896,1016.4.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:17.53mm / US: 7 1/4 / UK: O; Weight: 2.61g
Starting Price: £10000
Ca. AD 200 - 400
A pair of solid gold crossbow brooches, each with hexagonal-section arms adorned with two onion-shaped knobs and a third positioned above the bow, all accompanied by beaded wire collars. The bow is polygonal in section, featuring a collar along the lower edge. Both brooches retain their original pins. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 95.15.113.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a London gallery. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy. This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 60-60mm x 45-45mm; Weight: 116g
231. PAIR OF ROMAN HEAVY SOLID GOLD BOW BROOCHES - 116 GRAMS
232. LARGE ROMAN MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID HOLDING GRAPES- EX R. SORGE COLLECTION
Ca. 200 AD
A finely carved in extremely high relief ‘virtually in the round’ section of a marble sarcophagus depicting the god Eros (Roman Cupid) or one of the Erotes (Roman Cupids) holding a large bunch of harvested grapes in his left hand. Eros, depicted as a nude cherub, is posed standing in contrapposto, with his weight shifted to his left leg, one arm angled to carry the fruit of the vine, the other missing its forearm, perhaps once carrying more grapes (a common theme of Hellenistic and Roman art) or his bow. In addition to possessing an impressive understanding of anatomy and an ability to render flesh from stone, the sculptor of this piece was skilled in communicating naturalism in Cupid’s facial features - generously lidded, almond-shaped eyes, apple cheeks, pudgy nose, and full lips - framed by a wavy coiffure adorned by a leafy crown. Eros was the mischievous yet endearing god of love and, according to some classical writers, a son of the goddess Aphrodite.
Provenance: Property of a Central London Gallery, acquired by a British private collector, formerly in a NYC collection, ex. R. Sorge collection, Germany, 1980s, ex. German collection, Munich, 2000s.
Publications / Reports :Exhibited: Olympia Art & Antiques fair, London June 2022.
Size: L:700mm / W:260mm ; 37.35kg
233. ROMAN MARBLE RELIEF WITH SOLDIER
Ca. AD 100
Starting Price: £3000
A beautiful relief carved marble panel featuring a helmeted soldier and robed man, both in profile with their heads to the right. The first man is slightly higher in placement, perhaps suggesting higher status, such as a general. His face is thin, consisting of an aquiline nose and short beard and curly coiffure. The top of his robe or toga is draped around his shoulders. Before him is the soldier with a curly beard who wears a crested helmet. Perhaps this scene depicted a procession or event marking a military triumph. The Romans developed new forms of public monuments to celebrate their military victories, including arches and columns. These architectural masterpieces have been found throughout the Roman Empire and are often relief carved with Roman soldiers. This fragment may come from one such relief and is an impressive testament to Roman military and artistic achievements.
Provenance: Property of a London Ancient Art Gallery; formerly in a US collection of A.G: acquired from Fortuna Fina Arts gallery, New York. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: L:443mm (without stand) / W:304mm; 44kg (with stand)
234. ROMAN CORINTHIAN MARBLE CAPITAL
Ca. AD 100 - 200
Starting Price: £800
A splendid and quite sizable marble column capital of the Corinthian order, drilled with lush foliage of overlapping acanthus leaves, adding an air of delicacy to this hefty piece of architecture. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3748, Antiquities, Lot 96.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 200mm x 200mm; Weight: 7.26kg
236.
ROMAN
SEVERAN MARBLE HEAD OF YOUTH
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £800
A finely carved white marble head of a youth with an expressive countenance. While it may not be imperial, it is a powerful portrait of an important individual, given its scale and fine delineation, likely created during the era of Emperor Alexander Severus. The piece has heavy-lidded almond-shaped eyes with drilled pupils, feathery brows with incised individual hairs, an aquiline nose (with losses, as is often the case with Roman busts), full lips with a defined philtrum and moustache and naturalistic ears. The handsome face is crowned with a close-cropped, forward-combed, wavy coiffure.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentleman; formerly acquired in early 2000s; previously in 1970s UK collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 95mm x 80mm; Weight: 605g
237. GALLO-ROMAN BRONZE BEAR STATUETTE OF THE GODDESS ARTIO - EXTREMELY RARE
Ca. 100 BC - AD 100
Starting Price: £3000
A bronze statue of a bear, cast using the lost-wax process, depicted in stride on a rectangular plinth. Careful attention has been paid to her coat, which is composed of thick, shaggy tufts of hair that envelop her slender form. Capped by a pair of rounded ears, her expressive visage features annular eyes, a protruding snout, and a partially opened mouth.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 50mm x 40mm; Weight: 140g
238. PAIR OF ROMAN BRONZE FITTINGS WITH WILD BOAR PROTOMES
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A matched pair of chariot fittings, each formed as the head and forelegs of a boar with open mouth and prominent tusks, developing to a crescentic square-section body with knop finial, supported on a column and square-section tiered base. Mounted on custom-made display stands. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Entry number: MNC 1900.A.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; previously in an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent; from a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000; Ex. Ancient Art, North London, UK.
Size: 230-230mm x 130-130mm; Weight: 1.12kg
239. ROMANO-BRITISH BRONZE OIL LAMP WITH SWAN-SHAPED HANDLE
Ca. 100 BC - AD 100
Starting Price:
A cast bronze oil lamp with a looped, overhanging handle that almost touches the discus. A swan protome serves as a finial atop the handle. The elongated body features a broad, flared spout and a deep border encircling the edge. The lamp rests on a small, round foot. For similar see: Sotheby’s, Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art, 5 December 2023, Lot 44.
Provenance: Private UK collection; 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.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 205mm x 75mm; Weight: 885g
240. ROMAN BRONZE LION-SHAPED DOOR FITTING
Ca. AD 300
Starting Price: £800
A bronze leaded bronze door handle cast in high relief. The handle mount depicts the head of a fierce lion with bare fangs, a wide snout, almond-shaped eyes with delineated pupils, and a hanging tongue, all surrounded by a radiating mane. A substantial ring handle is suspended from the lion’s mouth, and three oxidised iron rivets are visible along the exterior rim. The handle is enveloped with thick layers of green and russet patina. For similar see: Sotheby’s, Ancient Sculptures and Works of Art, 3 December 2024, Lot 488.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Donald Wonder (1938-2023), California & New Jersey; thence by descent.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 260mm x 220mm; Weight: 1.1kg
245. LATE ROMAN GOLD PENDANT WITH RARE BICHROME GLASS CAMEO
Ca. AD 300 BC
Starting Price: £2000
An oval-shaped gold pendant with a frame decorated by small, closely spaced spheres along its perimeter. A ribbed suspension loop is positioned at the top. The central feature is a raised relief portrait of a woman carved from bichrome glass. Her greenish-grey head and upper torso are depicted, with a downturned gaze and delicately rendered facial features. Her hair and draped garment exhibit fine detailing. The back is flat and unworked.
Provenance: Private UK collection; formerly with R. A.; since the 1990s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 43.3mm x 33mm; Weight: 21.49g
246. ROMAN GOLD RING WITH INTAGLIO DEPICTING A YOUTH
Ca. AD 100 - 200
Starting Price: £500
A gold ring with a D-section hoop enlarged on the shoulders to form an oval bezel securing a carnelian intaglio depicting the profile of youth with nicely detailed beard and hair. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1872,0604.294.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.76mm / US: 10 / UK: T 1/2; Weight: 5g
247. ROMAN GOLD INTAGLIO RING DEPICTING MINERVA AND A VICTORY
Ca. AD 50 - 200
Starting Price: £800
A stunning 21 ct gold ring composed of a round hoop set with a carnelian intaglio of Minerva. The intaglio showcases a translucent vermilion shade and depicts a seated Minerva wearing a long kiton and a large helmet. In her right hand, she holds a winged Victory, who presents a laurel wreath to the goddess. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 2010,5006.641; 1814,0704.2807.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.15mm / US: 9 1/4 / UK: S; Weight: 6g
248. ROMAN GOLD MARRIAGE RING WITH CLASPED HANDS
Ca. AD 100 - 200
Starting Price: £1000
A gold ring composed of a flat-section hoop with expanded shoulders, featuring a central raised design. The design within the circular band depicts two clasped hands, symbolising unity, enclosed within a beaded border. For similar see: Bagot J., El legado de Hefesto: A Memorial to a Private Collection of Ancient Rings and Glyptics, n. 481.
Provenance: Property of a London Ancient Art Gallery; formerly in the famous Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; acquired between the early1960s to 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:16.51mm / US: 6 / UK: L 1/2; Weight: 10.41g
249. ROMAN CARNELIAN INTAGLIO OF GRYLLOS IN GOLD RING
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A stunning gold ring composed of a round hoop set with a carnelian intaglio of “Gryllos”. The intaglio showcases a translucent vermilion shade and depicts a seated creature composed of a rooster’s body with a human or gods face on the chest of the animal. The god associated with the rooster is Mercury. The Roman intaglio is set in a 21ct, possibly later gold ring. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 2010,5006.1161; Entwistle Ch. and Adams, N., ‘Gems of Heaven’: Recent Research on Engraved Gemstones in Late Antiquity, c. AD 200–600, Plate. 26, 30, 32, p. 93.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:15.9mm / US: 5 1/4 / UK: K; Weight: 6g
250. ROMAN GOLD INTAGLIO RING DEPICTING JUPITER IN PROFILE
Ca. AD 50 - 100
Starting Price: £800
A gold 21 ct ring with a shallow D-shaped hoop enlarged on the shoulders to form a round bezel. It secures a black stone intaglio boasting an image of Jupiter facing left with his characteristic thick beard and coiled, crown-like coiffure. For similar see: Spier J., Ancient Gems and Finger Rings, Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, n. 335, f1.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.75mm / US: 8 3/4 / UK: R; Weight: 5g
251. ROMANO BRITISH GOLD RING WITH RED GARNET CABOCHON
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A Roman gold ring with embellished shoulders depicting the head of two dolphins. The ribbed bezel secures a red garnet cabochon. For similar see: British Museum, Museum number 1981, 0201.7.
Provenance: From the private collection of D. Ruskin, Oxfordshire; formerly in a British collection formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: D:17.73mm / US: 7 1/2 / UK: O 1/2; Weight: 12.3g
258. ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A glass flask with an apple-shaped lower body and a concave base. It has a prominent rounded shoulder, a funnel-shaped neck, and a rounded rim. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 74.51.148.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s.
Size: 180mm x 135mm; Weight: 157g
259. LARGE ROMAN GLASS DISH
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £2000
A glass dish with a rounded base and a broad, shallow body. The rim curves gently inward, while the interior is decorated with series of three concentric wheel-cut grooves.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 40mm x 230mm; Weight: 325g
260.
HUGE ROMAN BRONZE HIGH RELIEF OF THE GODDESS ROMA
Ca. AD 100 - 300
Starting Price: £800
A bronze relief of the goddess Roma depicted in a frontal view, adorned with a high crown resembling a city wall. She has a bi-partite hairstyle and idealised facial features. Two necklaces are prominent on her chest, with the lower one showcasing a central circular medallion. Additionally, two iron appliqués are affixed to her hair on either sides of her face.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Private collection of Mr S.A., Switzerland, 1990s, thence by descent.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 175mm x 150mm; Weight: 3.65kg
261. LATE ROMAN BRONZE OIL LAMP ON HIGH STAND
Ca. AD 400 - 600
Starting Price: £1000
. A cast bronze lamp attached to a bronze tripod stand that is composed of two parts. The lamp features an elegant handle made of two tendrils that curl upwards and meet at a floral motif over the body of the vessel. The tripod has a rounded disc beneath the lamp to catch any dripping oil. It stands on a rounded base with three short, paw-like legs extending from its sides.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 335mm x 170mm; Weight: 1.44kg
263. COLLECTION OF ROMAN BRONZE PATERAS
Ca. AD 200 - 400
Starting Price: £3000
. A collection of cast bronze pateras, differing slightly in size. Each piece has a broad, shallow body with a circular flat base and smooth walls that gently flare outward towards the opening. Attached to the side of each dish is a large D-shaped handle, securely riveted in place.
Provenance: Property of a central London gallery, previously acquired on the Dutch art market; previously acquired on the Belgian art market; Hugo Lievens, Brussels 1982. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 300-325mm x 240-270mm; Weight: 1.8kg.
272. ROMAN GLASS BOTTLE WITH WHEELCUT DECORATION
Ca. AD 300 - 400
Starting Price: £1000
A pale blue and green glass bottle with an apple-shaped body and a concave base. It has a long cylindrical neck topped with a pronounced collar rim. Shallow diagonal wheel-cut grooves embellish the main body.
Provenance: Ex. Russkin collection, formed on the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 240mm x 170mm; Weight: 325g
274. ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Ca. AD 300 - 500
Starting Price: £1000
A free-blown, translucent pale green glass flask with a slender pear-shaped body. The long cylindrical neck culminates in a thick, folded rim.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 240mm x 120mm; Weight: 265g
293. BYZANTINE LIMESTONE ARCHITECTURAL ROUNDEL WITH CROSS
Ca. AD 500 - 600
Starting Price: £2000
A limestone architectural roundel with cross. This piece features a central cross with spheres on each arm and in the corners between them. The cross is encompassed by a band of small spheres, followed by a layer of chevrons, and another band adorned with small globules. The edge of the roundel is undecorated, providing a stark contrast to the elaborate front-facing design. Mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 400mm x 400mm; Weight: 23.08kg
294. BYZANTINE BRONZE POLYCANDELON
Ca. AD 500 - 600
Starting Price: £2000
A circular hanging bronze lamp or polycandelon. Oil-filled glass vessels once hung from ten round openings, nine set on the interior circular channel and one in the centre. Three chains are set on the external border of the polycandelon. The piece comes with a custom-made stand. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 1999.519.1; The British Museum, Museum number 1994,0610.11.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market, pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 600mm x 300mm; Weight: 1.3kg
295. MATCHING PAIR OF BYZANTINE GOLD GILDED ENAMELLED EARRINGS - HUGE
Ca. AD 1200
Starting Price: £5000
A matching pair of silver earrings with applied thick sheets of gold; with crescent-shaped bodies formed from two gold leaves, engraved and enamelled on the sides. Both sides depict a mythological animal. The gold is fully preserved and the p For similar see: Evans, H.C. and Wixom W.D., The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261, n. 212 - 214; The Glory of Byzantium, fig. 170.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 60-60mm x 50-50mm; Weight: 35g
296. BYZANTINE PEARL NECKLACE WITH GOLD CROSS PENDANT
Ca. AD 600
Starting Price: £3000
A necklace composed of an elegant strand of natural pearls alternating with gold beads in the shape of a spiral. The necklace is completed with a gold pendant in the form of a Latin cross with polygonal arms tapering towards the centre, which is formed by a small cube housing a red garnet cabochon. The cross is joined to the necklace with a gold hoop attached to the top of the central arm. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction, 2491, Ancient Jewelry, Lot 450.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 270/540mm x 35mm; Weight: 24g
297. BYZANTINE GOLD CROSS-SHAPED PENDANT
Ca. AD 500 - 700
Starting Price: £1000
A hollow gold cross pendant with arms that slightly flare outward. The upper face is adorned with swirling decorative patterns along each arm. They converge at a central raised boss surrounded by clusters of filigree forming an additional cross motif. A substantial suspension loop with a central ridge is positioned at the top for hanging.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the German art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 31.6mm x 22.7mm; Weight: 3.7g
298. RARE BYZANTINE GOLD PENDANT WITH AMETHYST INTAGLIO DEPICTING CHI-RHO AND DOLPHINS
Ca. AD 350 - 500
Starting Price: £5000
A rare Byzantine gold pendant with rope shaped decoration securing an amethyst intaglio of oval shape, engraved with the typical Chi-Rho monogram flanked by the Greek letters Alpha and Omega. At its base, the cross features two dolphins facing each other. On the top a round loop. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1894,0413.13 (design); British Museum, Dalton O.M., A Guide To The Early Christian And Byzantine Antiquities In The Department Of British And Mediaeval Antiquities, Fig. 29, p. 52.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, Illinois; Ex. Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Important Jewelry, 4 December 2016, Lot 279.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 40mm x 25mm; Weight: 15g
299. BYZANTINE GOLD RING DEPICTING CHRIST IN NIELLO
Ca. AD 500 - 700
Starting Price: £1000
A gold ring with an octagonal flat-section hoop and an attached oval bezel. The bezel is framed by pairs of small, rounded granules on each side. The bezel depicts Christ standing, rendered in niello, wearing a long robe and a halo with a cross above his head. His right hand is raised in gesture, while his left holds an object, possibly a book.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:17.93mm / US: 7 3/4 / UK: P; Weight: 7.17g.
300. BYZANTINE GOLD RING INLAID WITH NIELLO DEPICTING THE VIRGIN MARY AND CHRIST
Ca. AD 500 - 700
Starting Price: £1000
A gold ring featuring a discoid bezel joined to a solid round-section hoop and decorated with a niello-inlaid design of Mary Theotokos and infant Jesus. The Virgin Mary is depicted holding a disc containing the bust of Christ as a child. The composition has letters either side of the Virgin. HAG - OEOT. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 17.190.1654.
Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.34mm / US: 8 1/4 / UK: Q; Weight: 7g
301. BYZANTINE CROSS-SHAPED GOLD PENDANT WITH SPIRALS
Ca. AD 900 - 1100
A solid gold cross-shaped pendant adorned with a pattern of three spirals atop a triangle, which is based on two larger spirals. The decoration is only on the front side, and there is a large gold loop at the top. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 9258 Ancient Jewelry, Lot 137 (shape); Sotheby’s, Old Master Sculptures and Works of Art, 6 December 2022, Lot 1.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 45mm x 30mm; Weight: 10g
302. BYZANTINE GOLD RING DEPICTING TWO FACING ARCHANGELS HOLDING A PROCESSIONAL CROSS
Ca. AD 600
Starting Price: £1000
A superb 22.5 ct gold ring with a thick tubular band and a circular bezel. The bezel is incised with the full figures of two archangels with outstretched wings and large halos, each holding a processional cross. For similar see: Spier J., Byzantium and the West: Jewelry in the First Millennium, 14D.1-14D.2
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:17.73mm / US: 7 1/2 / UK: O 1/2; Weight: 8g
303.
PAIR OF GOLD BYZANTINE PENDANTS DEPICTING ANGELS
Ca. AD 500 - 700
Starting Price: £500
A pair of 20 ct gold oval pendants features a depiction of a standing angel. The angel is adorned in a long robe, with spread wings extending from its back, and is crowned by a large halo above its head. At the top of each pendant, a hoop with round ridges is incorporated for attachment. For similar see: Oreficieria antica e medievale, tecniche, produzione e società. Treasure of Mitilene, fig. 9, p. 114.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 24-24mm x 15-15mm; Weight: 3g
310. GOTHIC GOLD GILDED BRONZE EAGLE-SHAPED FIBULA WITH CABOCHONS
Ca. AD 400 - 500
Starting Price: £1000
A large gold-gilt bronze eagle-shaped fibula with open wings and a straight head. In the centre of its body, there is a round medallion set with a red garnet cabochon. The eagle’s eye is crafted from a blue cabochon. The surface of the body is adorned with decorative geometric motifs. For similar see: Various authors, From Attila to Charlemagne: Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. 12.2 p.134.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 95mm x 45mm; Weight: 55g
311. MEROVINGIAN SILVER-GILT RADIANT BROOCH
Ca. AD 480 - 530
A silver-gilt brooch with engraved motifs on its main section. The brooch has a rectangular central part with a prominent ridge and meander patterns. The bottom of the design is shaped like a stylised animal muzzle, while the top is hemispherical and adorned with a geometric line pattern. The brooch is topped with five protruding knots. For similar see: Early Merovingian Women’s Brooches, Max Martin, n. 20.7 , p. 229.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 90mm x 55mm; Weight: 35g Starting
312. MEROVINGIAN SILVER-GILT RADIANT BROOCH WITH RED CABOCHONS
Ca. AD 480 - 530
A brooch made of silver-gilt with stamped and moulded motifs on its main section. The brooch has a rectangular central part with a prominent ridge. The top is hemispherical and adorned with a raised concentric circle pattern. The brooch is topped with five protruding knots, each embellished with a red garnet. For similar see: Early Merovingian Women’s Brooches, Max Martin, n. 20, p. 228.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 85mm x 55mm; Weight: 35g Starting Price:
313. COLLECTION OF MEROVINGIAN GARNET INLAID BELT BUCKLE AND FITTINGS
Ca. AD 400 - 600
Starting Price: £2000
A collection of belt buckles and decorations. The first piece is a buckle featuring a rectangular central body that is open in the middle. Its decorative elements consist of a geometric inlay with alternating red and green garnets set in a gilded frame. The second item is a rectangular plaque adorned with a geometrically patterned inlay made of red garnet, centred with an oval-shaped orange glass cabochon. The third piece is a plaque decoration designed with red garnets arranged in a geometric pattern, displaying four hearts facing each other within a rhombus at the centre. Finally, the fourth item is a portion of a belt buckle, which consists of a rectangular body inlaid with geometric motifs in red garnet and green glass. This piece also features a large oblong ring at one end for fastening the belt.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 39-47mm x 15-30mm; Weight: 95g
314. COLLECTION OF VIKING BROOCHES AND PENDANTS
Ca. AD 900 - 1100
Starting Price: £8000
A large collection of gilded silver brooches and pendants each with a central motif depicting four horse heads characterised by long necks, round eyes, and open mouths. Additionally, there is a Viking medallion made of gilded silver, showcasing a human figure in the centre, surrounded by stylised geometric and plant motifs. A pendant, inspired by late Roman fibulae, is shaped like a raven or dove, with the bird depicted from the back and its wings folded. Lastly, there is a fibula in the shape of a raven seen in profile, distinguished by a long beak and geometric designs on its wings.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 35-45mm x 20-35mm; Weight: 95g
Ca. AD 400 - 500
Starting Price: £10000
A long sword with a parallel-sided blade that tapers to a sharp point. The lower guard is adorned with inset garnet cloisonné, arranged in a stepped pattern. The hilt is enveloped in gold, exhibiting decorative punched patterns that create textured lines along its length and it culminates in a circular pommel.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, Ex. German collection J. F. A., 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: Size: 820mm x 90mm; Weight: 850g
315. STUNNING MEROVINGIAN SWORD WITH GARNET INLAID GUARD AND GOLD HANDLE
316. MEROVINGIAN GOLD RING WITH RED GARNET
Ca. AD 500 - 600
Starting Price: £1000
A stunning gold and garnet ring with a slim, flat band adorned with two external ridges. The bezel holds four polygonal garnets, which were among the most popular stones of this era. These garnets exhibit a deep red colour that can appear almost black in dim light, but sparkle with a wine-red hue when illuminated. Surrounding a central square garnet. For similar see: The Victoria and Albert Museum, Accession Number 625-1871; The British Museum, Museum number 1923,0716.15.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.15mm / US: 9 1/4 / UK: S; Weight: 7g
317. SAXON ERA SILVER NECKLACE WITH RED GARNETS MEDALLIONS
Ca. AD 400 - 600
Starting Price: £1000
A necklace composed of a silver loop-in-loop chain. Suspended from the chain are two oval-shaped reddish-orange gems, each set in filigree-style silver settings. The settings feature intricate borders with fine detailing. Between the gems is a round-section silver loop that serves as a connecting element.
Provenance: From the private collection of a Cambridgeshire gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK /European art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 400/800mm x 25mm; Weight: 65g
318. MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHIC SILVER GILT RING DEPICTING A DRAGON
Ca. AD 1200 - 1400
Starting Price: £1000
A possibly British silver gilt ring with a D-section hoop enlarged on the decorated shoulders with incised panels representing geometric motifs and connected to a polygonal bezel depicting a dragon in the sky between the stars. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number AF.926.
Provenance: Property of a London Ancient art collector, formerly in a London private collection, formerly acquired on the UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:19.76mm / US: 10 / UK: T 1/2; Weight: 26g
319. MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHIC RING DEPICTING SAINT BARBARA
Ca. AD 1400
Starting Price: £3000
A gold 21 ct ring with a polygonal section round hoop enlarged on the shoulders and adorned with engraved motifs to form a hexagonal bezel depicting St. Barbara close to the wall of a city.
Provenance: Private UK collection; formerly with R. A.; since the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by full authentication report by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:16.1mm / US: 5 1/2 / UK: K 1/2; Weight: 9g
Ca. AD 1400 - 1600
Starting Price: £7000
A possibly British gold 22 ct pendant shaped like a four-lobed cross with a raised border. The inner surface features detailed carvings, depicting a crucified Jesus on the cross, with a haloed bust positioned above, flanked by a star and the crescent moon. The reverse side is flat, displaying a central standing draped female figure, likely representing the mother of Jesus, who is crowned and haloed. The quatrefoil design is framed by leaf arrangements, with a central five-petalled flower located at the horizontal ends. A suspension loop is present above the pendant.
Provenance: Property of a European collector, acquired on the UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 32mm x 26mm; Weight: 5.34g
320. MEDIEVAL GOLD PENDANT WITH CRUCIFIX
321. THE ROXWELL’ MEDIEVAL GOLD SIGNET RING OF ‘KING’S SERJEANT WILLIAM SKRENE’
Ca. AD 1300 - 1400
Starting Price: £10000
A gold ring composed of a round hoop and discoid bezel with an ropework border. It depicts an image of a bird of prey perching with wings spread and head turned. It has an inscription in an arc above the bird’s head ‘·al : for : ye : best ·’ (all for the best). The ring’s find location is close to an estate which was owned in the 14th century by the Skrene family and which included among their number a senior barrister and sergeant-at-law named William Skrene who was an Irish-born barrister and judge. The family name lives on to the present day at Roxwell with Skreens Park and for local road names nearby. William spent his professional life in England, being appointed King’s Serjeant and a judge of assize, as well as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1395-7. In addition to the estate at Roxwell, he acquired various lands in Essex, including at Writtle, Great Finborough and Stanford Rivers. William died in 1419-20 and left sons and a daughter; his heir, also called William, married Alice Tyrrell, widow of Hamo Strange, and daughter of John Tyrrell, who was Speaker of the House of Commons of England for three terms.
The exact combination of motto and crest or badge has eluded researchers thus far. However, the ring was found near Roxwell, Essex, and evidently belonged to a person of some wealth and status given the quantity of gold used in its manufacture and the quality of the workmanship. The style of the ring is close in appearance to a number of early 15th century examples, which began to appear with the badge and motto rather than the full armorial bearings, so it is very possible that this is the personal signet ring of William Skrene, or possibly of his sons, William or Thomas.
Bibliography: Cf. Ward, A. et al., The Ring from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century, Thames and Hudson, London, 1981, types 164, 165.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; found while searching with a metal detector near Roxwell, Essex, UK, by Albert Robert Taylor on 4th September 2021. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This item is accompanied by a copy of the British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no. ESS-CD68AE. Published: Gold Armorial Sheriff’s Ring, Treasure Hunting Magazine, August 2022, p.13.
Size: D:19.76mm / US: 10 / UK: T 1/2; Weight: 8.07g
323. RARE MEDIEVAL IRON GREAT HELM WITH FULL REPORT
Ca. AD 1300 - 1400
Starting Price: £20000
A remarkable medieval iron great helm. Its barrel-like design was intended to completely cover and therefore protect a knight’s whole head in combat, and this shape was achieved by shaping and riveting together several large sheets of iron. On the face of the helmet, there are two rectangular slits for vision and multiples rows of holes, called breaths, for ventilation. Great helms were important elements of medieval knightly armour, and when a knight died his helmet was often included on his funerary monument. This lot includes a custom-made stand. For similar see: The Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Inv.Nr.W 1003.
Provenance: Central London gallery; formerly with a European collector; formerly in a collection of Ing Peter Till formed in 1980s Vienna. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece comes with an XRF laboratory report from the independent Belgian laboratory Hebolabo. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: Size: 230mm x 290mm ; Weight: 2kg
324. VIKING OR NORMAN IRON SEAX
Ca. AD 700 - 1000
Starting Price: £800
A Viking or Norman sword with a long, narrow blade tapering to a sharp point. The hilt is rectangular with a disc-shaped pommel. The length of the sword suggests it was intended for use on horseback.
Provenance: Private UK collection; previously acquired on the German art market (Munich) in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 540mm x 35mm; Weight: 445g
325. LARGE AND HEAVY VIKING SOLID GOLD TWISTED RING
Ca. AD 800 - 1100
Starting Price: £3000
A gold wearable ring formed from twisted wires. The middle of the shank features thick wires coiled around one another that gradually fuse and taper down to form the narrow terminal strips that spiral around the opposite arm. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number AF.537; 1853,0412.71.
Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.95mm / US: 9 / UK: R 1/2; Weight: 17g
326. VIKING GOLD MEDALLION DEPICTING
“GREAT BEAST”
Ca. AD 800 - 1100
Starting Price: £1000
A pendant of discoid form, shaped from a thin sheet of gold, features planar faces and a slender peripheral edge. An integral suspension loop with raised edges is incorporated into the design. The obverse is finely decorated with exceedingly complex curvilinear and knotted cord-patterned motifs representing the mythological animal known as the “Great Beast”. Filigree wires wrap around granular spheres along the top and bottom of the pendant. For similar see: The Viking Art; fig. 131, p. 114.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 28mm x 23mm; Weight: 6g
327. VIKING SILVER GILT PENDANT WITH CRUCIFORM MOTIF AND HEAD OF ODIN
Ca. AD 800 - 1100
Starting Price: £1000
A gilded silver medallion, circular in shape and adorned with a central cruciform motif surrounded on all four sides by geometric plant pattern. The upper part includes a loop with depiction of Odin for securing the chain. For similar see: Graham-Campbell J., Viking Art, fig. 73, p. 70 and fig. 75, p. 72; Offa, Festgabe, Joachim Reichstein, 59-60, 2002-2003, abb. 4, n. 4-6.
Provenance: Private UK collection; from an old British collection formed in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 38mm x 30mm; Weight: 9g
328. VIKING SILVER NECKLACE WITH HAMMER-SHAPED PENDANT
Ca. AD 900 - 1000
Starting Price: £1000
A silver necklace features very narrow links arranged in a wide choker that connects at the back with two tubular finials and a hook with a ring. The necklace is embellished with a pendant shaped Mjolnir, the hammer of the Norse god Thor. The pendant is further decorated with stamped triangles, each containing three raised dots inside. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 1990,0101.1, 1851,0613.1.
Provenance: From the private collection of a Cambridgeshire gentleman; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK /European art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 460mm x 30mm; Weight: 50g
329. VIKING SILVER RING WITH STAMPED TRIANGLES AND DOTS
Ca. AD 980 - 1020
Starting Price: £200
A silver ring composed of a flattened rod with tapering ends that wrap around each other. The decoration consists of a series of stamped triangles, each containing three raised dots inside. Below these triangles is a middle line made up of dots, followed by another series of stamped triangles with three raised dots. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 2002,0713.1. Museum number 1841,0711.336.
Provenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D:18.75mm / US: 8 3/4 / UK: R; Weight: 8.34g
346. BRITISH TUDOR SILVER GILT HAT APPLIQUÉ
Ca. AD 1500 - 1600
Starting Price: £1000
An elegant hat appliqué with a circular shape and a body crafted from gilt silver. It is detailed with concentric circles resembling a cordon, alternating with circles featuring geometric decorations. The central section comprises six semi-circular silver bezels inlaid with black niello, encircling a hexagonal motif that contains a smaller silver hexagon with niello inlay. The reverse side of the fibula is decorated with a rosette of six petals surrounding a central round pistil.
Provenance: Property of a London Ancient art collector, formerly in a London private collection, formerly acquired on the UK art market since the 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: 70mm x 70mm; Weight: 40g
349. HUGE RARE MEDIEVAL SILVER MERCHANT’S SEAL RING
Ca. AD 1200 - 1400
Starting Price: £800
A beautiful silver gilt ring with a round hoop adorned with three ridges composed of lines of pellets, which expand on the shoulders to form a round bezel, designed to be used as a seal. The bezel is engraved with complicated symbols a Christian monogram and personal initials, the symbols are framed with a thread-like line. The size and work are impressive suggesting the ring could possibly belong to a royal merchant or nobleman from a Crusaders period.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collection, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by an authentication statement by Sami Fortune, ancient jewellery specialist.
Size: D: 20.98mm / US: 11 3/8 / UK: W 1/2; Weight: 31g
359. SUPERB SASANIAN SILVER SHALLOW HAMMERED BOWL
Ca. AD 200 - 400
Starting Price: £1000
A shallow silver bowl with a rounded bottom and a polished outer surface. The interior displays a distinct hammered texture. The bowl comes with a modern custom-made presentation box. For similar see: Harper P.O., Meyers P., Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period. Vol. 1, Royal Imagery, Pl. 3, p. 204.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s.
Size: 215mm x 40mm; Weight: 470g
360. MASSIVE RARE SASANIAN GLAZED PLASTER OF BUST OF BAHRAM II
Ca. AD 200 - 400
Starting Price: £2000
A wall decoration in glazed stucco depicts a Sasanian king with a typical hairstyle, his hair flowing down the sides of his face, and adorned with a high crown. This type of decoration is extremely rare and likely originates from a royal palace.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 190mm x 125mm; Weight: 615g
Ca. AD 500 - 600
Starting Price: £8000
A mould-made glass cup with a thick-walled body adorned with meticulously spaced circular facets. A large and deeply cut facet on the base provides a stable surface upon which it rests. These facets create a sparkling effect when held to the light. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 59.34.
Provenance: Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy..
Size: Size: 85mm x 85mm; Weight: 230g
361. SASANIAN WHEEL-CUT GLASS BEAKER
367. KASHAN MONKEY-SHAPED GREEN-GLAZED JUG
Ca. AD 1080 - 1200
Starting Price: £500
A jug with a rounded ribbed body and a cylindrical neck. It stands on a small unglazed foot and is covered with a turquoise glaze. The neck features the muzzle of an animal, likely a monkey, with almond-shaped eyes and small pierced ears. A strap handle is attached to the back of the nozzle. For similar see: Animal shaped vessel from the ancient world, Fastining with Gods, Heroes and Kings, Hardvard, Art Museum, Cambridge, Susanne Ebbinghaus, Cat. n. 65.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s.
Size: 160mm x 140mm; Weight: 545g
368. GERMAN HUNTING CUTTING KNIFE WITH SCABBARD
Ca. 1500-1600 AD
Starting Price: £2000
A steel hunting knife with a broad rectangular-shaped heavy blade adorned with hallmarks. The single-edged blade possesses remarkable strength, lending itself to the demands of hunting tasks. The ferrule is intricately embellished with a relief depiction of a lion in a recumbent pose. The lion, a symbol of courage and power, adds an aura of regality to this hunting knife, evoking a sense of prestige among its users. To enhance its functionality, the blade is accompanied by a fitting scabbard, which serves as a protective sheath. The scabbard boasts lateral suspension rings, allowing for convenient carriage and accessibility. Crafted with precision, the scabbard ensures that the knife remains securely fastened while allowing swift and effortless deployment when needed. German hunting knives of this type were designed to withstand the rigours of hunting expeditions, displaying a balance between sturdiness and manoeuvrability. With their broad blades and single edges, these knives excel in cutting and slicing tasks, making them ideal companions for hunting endeavours. The flat-section handle, complemented by a turned-down pommel, offered a comfortable and secure grip, allowing the wielder to maintain control and precision during intricate movements.
Provenance: Private English collection pre 2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: L:530mm / W:140mm ; 1.87kg
369. POLISH HUSSAR (WINGED HORSEMAN)
SABRE
Ca. Late 17th century AD
Starting Price: £2000
A curved steel blade with a single edge and three parallel fullers running along its length. The sabre features an “L”-shaped guard with a thumb ring, and the hilt is covered in ray skin. Sickle-shaped marks with dots are present on both sides of the blade.
Provenance: Property of a European collector; Ex. Auctrian collection, pre-2000.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 920mm x 130mm; Weight: 855g
370. BOHEMIAN WHITE-OVERLAY GLASS
EWER
- EX. CHRISTIE’S
Ca. Late 19th century AD
Starting Price: £3000
A creamy white glass ewer with intricate gold-coloured patterns, swirling motifs, floral designs, and geometric shapes. Cut-out clear windows are accented with raised gilded decoration, each centred with coloured glass jewels in red, green, blue, and yellow. The handle has a golden finish, and the base features a decorative foot with additional embellishments.
Provenance: Property of an American collector; Ex. Christie’s, London.
Size: 340mm x 160mm; Weight: 2kg
371. GANDHARAN SCHIST HEAD OF BODHISATTVA
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £2000
A schist head of a Bodhisattva with a serene expression, heavy-lidded eyes, and an intricate coiffure surmounted by an elaborate headdress. The figure is backed by a nimbus, with large decorated earrings hanging from the lower parts of the ears. For similar see: Christie’s, Indian and southeastern Asian Art, Live Auction 2578, Lot 531.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 450mm x 280mm; Weight: +25kg
373. GANDHARAN SCHIST HEAD OF HARITI
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A finely carved grey schist head of the mother goddess Hariti, with pronounced facial details. The depiction shows sinuous, wavy Mediterranean-style hair and sensitively modelled features, reflecting classical influence characteristic of the Gandharan period.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 220mm x 150mm; Weight: 6.5kg
374. GANDHARAN SCHIST HEAD OF BODHISATTVA
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A schist head of a Bodhisattva with a serene expression, characterised by heavy-lidded eyes and an intricate hairstyle topped with an elaborate headdress and framed by a nimbus. On top there is a stylised flower. For similar see: Christie’s, Indian and southeastern Asian Art, Live Auction 2578, Lot. 531.
Provenance: Ex. Mayfair collection since 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 260mm x 180mm; Weight: 8.7kg
376. INDIAN STELE DEPICTING DURGA
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £1000
A finely carved black stone stele depicting the deity Durga, goddess of the war. She appears in many manifestations, sometimes as Durga or Kali with eight or ten arms. Here she presents eight arms which are indicators of her divine nature that carry symbolic implements.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 360mm x 250mm; Weight: +25kg
377. GANDHARAN STONE LION
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £2000
A greenschist lion features a slender body and a mane that rests on its shoulders, with locks resembling flames. It is notable for its open mouth, displaying its fangs. For similar see: Christie’s, Indian and southeastern Asian Art, Live Auction 2578, Lot 516.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 550mm x 550mm; Weight: +25kg
378. GANDHARAN SCHIST HIGH RELIEF OF THE LIFE OF BUDDHA
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £2000
A remarkable and rare schist relief depicts the episodes of the life of Buddha, a common theme in Gandharan narratives. The Buddha, shown in the centre, is seated in padmāsana–the lotus pose. Typical of Gandharan Maitreyas, he is seen here with a double-looped knot, and a pear-shaped jewel at the centre of the knot, as well as wearing earrings and a necklace. The Buddha is seated on a throne in paradise (Tusita heaven), a canopy shading him and two balconies flanking his sides.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 660mm x 220mm; Weight: 30+g.
379. HUGE GANDHARAN SCHIST STATUE OF BUDDHA
Ca. AD 200 - 300
Starting Price: £5000
A grey schist statue of Buddha standing with his left leg slightly extended and a bent knee, adorned in a kasaya robe that cascades with finely sculpted waves and folds. The serene countenance features downcast eyes, arched brows, generous eyelids, an aquiline nose, and full lips, radiating a sense of calm. Above, a circular topknot rests atop his tightly bound coiffure, while below is a small urna. For similar see: Christie’s, Indian and southeastern Asian Art, Live Auction 2578, Lots 520, 507.Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/ International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports :This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 1100mm x 420mm; Weight: +50kg
380. HUGE GANDHARAN SCHIST STATUE OF BUDDHA - EX CHRISTIES
Starting Price: £5000
Ca. AD 200 - 300
A grey schist statue of Buddha standing atop an integral rectangular pedestal. The figure’s left leg is slightly extended with a bent knee, and he is draped in a kasaya robe rendered with finely sculpted waves and folds. The serene face features downcast eyes, arched brows, generous eyelids, an aquiline nose, and full lips, framed by a nimbus behind the head. A circular topknot rests above the tightly-bound coiffure, with a small urna positioned below. For similar see: Christie’s, Indian and southeastern Asian Art, Live Auction 2578, Lot. 520.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 1250mm x 440mm; Weight: +50kg.
Ca. AD 618 - 907
Starting Price: £10000
A remarkable collection of terracotta statues depicting the animals of the twelve zodiac signs. Each statue features an elongated body and is adorned with a dress that has long pleats. The faces of the statues are distinct and vividly represent various animals. They have their hands gently folded upon their chests, forming a restrained gesture beneath the drapery of their regal garments. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 2000.662.7a–l; The Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum no. C.103-1929. Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot. This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: L:470-490mm / W:140-145mm ; 3.14-3.27kg.
381. SET OF TWELVE ZODIAC ANIMALS OF TANG DYNASTY - TL TESTED
382. TANG DYNASTY PAINTED POTTERY FIGURE OF A CAMEL AND RIDER - TL TESTED
Ca. AD 618 - 907
A terracotta sculpture of a camel with its rider seated atop. The figure, portrayed as a young man, is dressed in simple attire, including a pair of black boots and a pointed hat. He is seated comfortably, with his legs resting on either side of the camel’s saddle. The camel’s body is depicted with detailed anatomical features, including a muscular build, long slender legs ending in detailed hooves, and a raised tail. The neck is adorned with textured hair, and the head is shown with pronounced details, including a raised position, an open mouth, and a defined muzzle, suggesting a dynamic posture as if calling out. The camel is fitted with a saddle and a large draped cloth on either side, depicted in vibrant painted colours. The sculpture sits on an integral rectangular base that supports the composition. This piece is a mingqi, a type of funerary object made to accompany the deceased in the afterlife, serving as a substitute for real-life provisions or companions.For similar see: The Ashmolean Museum, Accession no. EA2012.189.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: L:705mm / W:530mm ; 14.27kg Starting
383. HAN DYNASTY TERRACOTTA HOUND - TL TESTED
Ca. 202 BC - AD 220
Starting Price: £2000
An alert dog with a strong, protective stance and a fierce disposition, mould-made from baked terracotta. His sturdy legs support his barrel-shaped body that has a circular vent on the underside. He has a tense energy, with a curved tail that lays against his haunches, a prominent, arched spine, and a snarling jaw, all painted a warm hue of coral. A pair of perky ears caps his head, sitting above a round snout and incised, almond-shaped eyes, as a leash wraps around his thick neck.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: L:545mm / W:360mm ; 4.23kg
384. CHINESE TANG DYNASTY FOREIGNER - TL TESTED
Ca. AD 619 - 906
Starting Price: £2000
A Chinese figure of a foreigner. The figure is depicted in mid-action, standing on a rectangular pedestal. He might be in the process of a performance, hence the body posture of moving his arms. The figure may have possibly been holding something. His face is moulded with a textured beard, passionate expression. He wears a loose-fitting robe hiked around the waist, accompanied with a pair of tall black boots.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a Thermo Luminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: 580mm x 220mm; Weight: 5.59Kg
385. CHINESE TANG DYNASTY TERRACOTTA FEMALE RIDER HOLDING A HARP - TL TESTED
Ca. AD 619 - 906
Starting Price: £900
A Chinese terracotta female rider holding a harp. The lady is depicted wearing riding attire, also known as Hufu (foreigners attire), and black boots, with her hair arranged to two side buns. The horse is shown standing upright, painted with black pigments.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a Thermo Luminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: 420mm x 385mm; Weight: 3.65kg
386. CHINESE
TANG DYNASTY
TERRACOTTA FOREIGNER - TL TESTED
Ca. AD 619 - 906
Starting Price: £900
A standing terracotta foreigner. Dressed in foreigner riding attire, the figure appears to be in motion with his fists held up, perhaps ready to fight. His attire boasts a hat, an open collar, detailed carved drapery, hitched inwards on the waist possibly by a belt. The attire stops at the knees, where the outfit is finished with a pair of dark boots. The facial features of foreigner figures were given more dramatic expressions during the Tang dynasty to differentiate them from the Tang people.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: 540mm x 170mm; Weight: 4.5kg
387. CHINESE NORTHERN WEI TERRACOTTA COURT ATTENDANT
Ca. AD 386 - 535
Starting Price: £800
A standing terracotta court attendant. The figure is wearing a court cap and a breast-plate held by a belt over a long robe with full sleeves which is worn over an undergarment and full pants.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports:
Size: 600mm x 180mm; Weight: 6.1kg
388.
DIAN KINGDOM CEREMONIAL TABLE WITH ANIMALS
Dian Kingdom, Ca. 4th - 1st century BC
Starting Price: £1000
A bronze ceremonial table featuring a robust bull standing in an upright pose with its head held high, gazing forward. The bull’s head is crowned with an impressive pair of curved horns. Beneath the powerful body of the bull, a small calf seeks shelter, positioned close to its sturdy legs. Behind the bull’s rear, a tiger clings onto the animal, poised as though attempting to grasp the calf. The flat back of the bull appears deliberately designed for the placement of offerings, while the entire composition rests on an integral base.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 135mm x 105mm; Weight: 465g
389 PAIR OF TANG DYNASTY TERRACOTTA STATUETTES OF WOMEN PLAYING INSTRUMENTS
Ca. AD 619 - 907
Starting Price: £400
A pair of finely sculpted terracotta ladies playing musical instruments, both depicted seated on the ground. Their faces are sensitively moulded with full cheeks, a small, dimpled chin, delicately carved mouth and nose, and elongated eyes. Their lips are painted in bright red and the cheeks with a light rouge-coloured pigment, rendering an attractive representation of rosy skin. They are both portrayed wearing a long robe with a low-cut neckline and a high waistband tied in a bow just below the breast.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Size: 235-250mm x 130-140mm; Weight: 2.63kg
390 PAIR OF TANG DYNASTY TERRACOTTA STATUETTES OF DANCERS
Ca. AD 619 - 907
Starting Price: £400
A pair of mould-formed terracotta tomb attendant figures, each depicting a dancing woman in flowing garments, captured in a dynamic pose with one arm gracefully raised. The surface retains much of its orig- inal pigments – white, green and red over the grey terracotta.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Size: 320-325mm x 165-175mm; Weight: 2.15kg
391 PAIR OF TANG DYNASTY TERRACOTTA STATUETTES OF FAT LADIES
Ca. AD 619 - 907
Starting Price:
£500
A pair of terracotta figures of fat ladies, each standing on an irregularly shaped base and wearing a full- length, beautifully decorated dress. Both hands are raised to the chest. The faces are finely detailed, featuring highlighted cheeks and carefully arranged hair.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong.
Size: 220-230mm x 72-72mm; Weight: 710g
393 HAN DYNASTY TERRACOTTA DUCK - TL TESTED
Ca. 202 BC - AD 220
Starting Price: £500
A polychrome terracotta figure of a duck, with lifelike legs in bronze. It has colourful feathers, a red colour- ed head with wide-open eyes, and a cream-coloured beak.
Provenance: UK private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla. The report will accompany the lot.
Size: L:245mm / W:210mm ; 1.28kg
396 COLLECTION OF THREE CHINESE MING TERRACOTTA STATUETTES
Ming Dynasty, Ca. AD 1368 - 1644
Starting Price: £800
A collection of Ming Dynasty pottery statuettes dec- orated with green and brown glazes. The two riders are dressed in coats and trousers, with the male figure wearing a hat and the female figure’s hair arranged in a high topknot. Both figures are riding on donkeys and have their left hands raised. The third figure is a civil official standing on a hexagonal plinth with a stern expression, wearing court robes, a tall black hat and holding books.
Provenance: Property of an American collector, ac- quired from the US estate collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 340-460mm x 250-130mm; Weight: 6kg
399 MESOPOTAMIAN WHITE MARBLE CRESCENT MOON AMULET - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £800
An amulet of white marble. The shape is a crescent with a bar raising from the centre of the inside of the crescent. There is a suspension hole under this bar. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 74mm x 38mm; Weight: 25g
400 MESOPOTAMIAN BROWN STONE CRESCENT-SHAPED AMULET - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A brown stone amulet of a crescent. It is pierced through the centre of the object and the face is decorat- ed with drill holes and lines. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s.
Size: 45mm x 23mm; Weight: 19g
401 MESOPOTAMIAN WHITE MARBLE RECUMBENT BOVINE-SHAPED - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT Ca. 3000 BC
Starting Price: £1000
An amulet of white marble. It depicts a recumbent bovine. Pierced at the base of the neck. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 1987.96.17.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 46mm x 32mm; Weight: 30g
403 COLLECTION OF MESOPOTAMIAN STONE HUMAN HEADS - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A collection of eight human heads, one made out of terracotta, one of bronze and the rest of stone. This collection also has one squatting female and one standing human figure. Accompanied by signed scholarly notes by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s.
Size: 15-25mm x 5-15mm; Weight: 25g
417 SUSA I/II BLACK STONE STAMP SEAL
Ca. 4th millennium BC
Starting Price: £500
A black stone stamp seal with five wild boars and floral images. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 40mm x 30mm; Weight: 31g
420
OLD BABYLONIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. Early 2nd millennium BC
Starting Price: £500
A black stone cylinder seal with a deity wearing a horned cap, a royal hero and a mythical lion-headed winged creature. A rosette, the emblem of Marduk (spade) and a lunar icon are depicted in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 41mm x 19mm; Weight: 30.4g
424 ANATOLIAN KUSARA MARBLE IDOL
Ca. 2700 - 2400 BC
Starting Price: £3000
A Kusura-type marble idol of an extremely simplified anthropomorphic form. The idol is carved remarkably thin with a rounded head, a short conical neck and a trapezoidal body with a rounded bottom. For similar see: The Brooklyn Museum, Accession Number 1996.146.5.
Provenance: London collection; Ex. Mayfair collec- tion, acquired from an Ancient Art gallery; formerly acquired on the London art market pre-2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Publications / Reports: This piece is accompanied by a historical report from Alessandro Neri, an international Cultural Heritage expert based in Florence, Italy.
Size: 140mm x 80mm; Weight: 310g
425
IDOL
TELL BRAK STONE EYE
Starting Price: £500
Late Uruk Period, Ca. 3300 - 3000 BC
An eye idol carved from stone, with a flat body that flares downward to form a stable, flat base. At the top of the idol, a pair of oversized, pierced loops are intri- cately carved to form stylised eyes. The smooth surface of the stone contrasts with the bold, abstract features, lending the figure a striking and simplistic appearance. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number: 2013,6001.3620; The Louvre Museum, Main number: SB 24059.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.
Size: 120mm x 55mm; Weight: 245g
426
TELL BRAK STONE EYE IDOL
Ca. 3500 - 3300 BC
Starting Price: £500
An eye idol carved from stone, presenting a flat, rectangular body with rounded shoulders and a flat base for stability. From the body emerges a short neck, support- ing a broad head shaped like a reclining figure-eight. The eyes are framed by notched circles, with long, pronounced eyebrows positioned above the eye-like forms. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number 126483.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.
Size: 70mm x 55mm; Weight: 155g
428 HUGE BACTRIAN ALABASTER CHALICE
Ca. 3000 - 2000 BC
Starting Price: £1000
An alabaster chalice with a tall stem on a conical foot, the cylindrical bowl tapering slightly towards the wide disc rim. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 1915, Antiquities, Lot 61.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the UK art market; Ex. Mayfair gallery, 1980s.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 240mm x 150mm; Weight: 3.3kg
434 SUMERIAN PILLOW-SHAPED CLAY TABLET WITH AKKADIAN INSCRIPTIONS
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A pillow-shaped administrative clay tablet. It has many lines of cuneiform on the front and the back. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3748, Antiquities, 4 June 2015, Lot 102.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentle- man, acquired in France between 2000-2005; previously with A. Kotlar; Ex. French collection since the 1970s.
Size: 35mm x 32mm; Weight: 26g
435 PILLOW-SHAPED CLAY
TABLET WITH SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A pillow-shaped administrative clay tablet. It has many lines of cuneiform on the front and the back. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3748, Antiquities, 4 June 2015, Lot 102.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentle- man, acquired in France between 2000-2005; previously with A. Kotlar; Ex. French collection since the 1970s.
Size: 35mm x 35mm; Weight: 25g
436 SUMERIAN PILLOW-SHAPED CLAY TABLET WITH AKKADIAN CUNEIFORM
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A pillow-shaped administrative clay tablet. It has many lines of cuneiform on the front and the back. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3748, Antiquities, 4 June 2015, Lot 102.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentle- man, acquired in France between 2000-2005; previously with A. Kotlar; Ex. French collection since the 1970s.
Size: 45mm x 40mm; Weight: 41g
437 SUMERIAN PILLOW-SHAPED CLAY TABLET WITH AKKADIAN INSCRIPTIONS
Ca. 3000 - 2500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A pillow-shaped administrative clay tablet. It has many lines of cuneiform on the front and the back. For similar see: Christie’s, Live Auction 3748, Antiquities, 4 June 2015, Lot 102.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentle- man, acquired in France between 2000-2005; previously with A. Kotlar; Ex. French collection since the 1970s.
Size: 37mm x 32mm; Weight: 28g
441 ELAMITE BRONZE STYLISED ZEBU
Ca. 1000 - 800 BC
Starting Price: £800
A cast bronze figurine of zebu standing in an elegant arch-like pose, on four long, slender legs with deline- ated hooves. The zebu’s gaze is directed slightly down- ward. Its head features bulging eyes and short curved horns. A notable hump rises from its back, and a long tail nearly grazes the ground.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 110mm x 65mm; Weight: 115g
442 ELAMITE
Ca. 1000 - 800 BC
Starting Price: £800
A bronze figurine of a zebu supported by four long and slender legs. The zebu gazes forward. Its head is accentuated with bulging eyes, defined nostrils, and a mouth, all crowned with gracefully curved horns. A dewlap hangs beneath the chin, while a characteristic hump protrudes from its back. The long tail drapes down to touch the ground.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 115mm x 70mm; Weight: 275g
445 LARGE SYRO-HITTITE TERRACOTTA IDOL OF BIRD-HEADED DEITY
Ca. 1500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A hand-built terracotta figure of a deity. The deity has a broad physical form, with both arms folded back touching the chest, but in different positions. He wears a high crown with two stylised horns. The figure also has a large, thin nose, almond-shaped eyes, incised brows, and a flared headdress. The design of the eyes reflects a common Ancient Near Eastern motif.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the Dutch art market in the 1990s.
Size: 175mm x 75mm; Weight: 155g
446 BABYLONIAN RITUAL TERRACOTTA BRICK FOR NEBUCHADNEZZAR
Ca. 1st Millennium BC
Starting Price: £1000
A terracotta rectangular-shaped brick with fourteen lines of cuneiform inscription mentioning the founda- tion of a temple, probably for a King of Babylon (Ne- buchadnezzar). Babylonian ritual bricks, often found in temple contexts, are fascinating artefacts that provide insight into the religious and cultural practices of An- cient Mesopotamiathe verso is undecorated. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 54.117.29.
Provenance: From the collection of a London gentle- man; formerly acquired in the early 2000s in Belgium; previously in 1970s European collection. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 205mm x 130mm; Weight: 935g
449 EUROPEAN BRONZE AGE DAGGER WITH INCISED DECORATIONS
Ca. 1200 - 700 BC
Starting Price: £500
A bronze dagger with decorative geometric motifs on both the handle and the ricasso. This dagger also has a decorated pommel. The blade is convex with a prom- inent midrib for strength. For similar see: The British Museum, Museum number ML.1213.
Provenance: Private London collection, acquired on the European art market pre 2000. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 250mm x 30mm; Weight: 120g
BRONZE ZEBU
Ca. 1200 - 700 BC
Starting Price: £10000
A Bronze Age sword with a long, leaf-shaped blade, a prominent mid-rib, and a gracefully curved guard. The pommel is a hollow crescent with open-work style holes that may have once held cabochons or decorative elements. The handle has been restored with resin.
Provenance: Property of a European collector, acquired on the English Art market in 2016; formerly in the collection of T. R., acquired in 2000; previously in the private British collection of Mr. W. L. since 1965; Ex. private British collection of N. K. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: Size: 775mm x 50mm; Weight: 805g
451. BRONZE AGE SWORD WITH CRESCENT POMMEL
452 WESTERN ASIATIC
BRONZE HORSE BIT WITH MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS
Ca. 1000 - 800 BC
Starting Price:
£900
A bronze horse bit composed of a central round-sec- tion rod with looped ends, each end is fitted with large suspended rings. Affixed to each end is a cheek piece depicting a mouflon standing gracefully on an integral base, its head is held high and is adorned with majes- tic, curved horns. From the back of the ibex emerges a mythological winged beast with a fierce expression, its head turned towards the mouflon. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Main number: AO 20513; Muscarella O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, n. cat. 255.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 160mm x 100mm; Weight: 435g
453 WESTERN ASIATIC
BRONZE HORSE BIT WITH RECUMBENT QUADRUPEDS
Ca. 1100 - 900 BC
Starting Price: £900
An elaborate horse bit with cheek pieces consisting of a central rod with curled ends. Each end is adorned with a recumbent quadruped with raised ears, rendered in an idealised manner. The figures are pierced with a large hole in the belly. For similar see: Muscarella O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, n. cat. 149.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 205mm x 110mm; Weight: 650g
454 WESTERN ASIATIC
BRONZE HORSE BIT WITH WINGED BEASTS
Ca. 1100 - 900 BC
Starting Price:
£900
An elaborate horse bit composed of a round-section shank with its ends flattened to form loops with suspended rings. Each end is affixed with an openwork plaque depicting a winged mythological beast stand- ing majestically on an integral base bar. The creature’s head is held high, with its tail raised, while large wings extend from its back. For similar see: The Louvre Museum, Main number: AO 25201 a.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 180mm x 125mm; Weight: 550g.
455 WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE HORSE BIT WITH DOUBLE-HEADED ANIMALS
Ca. 1100 - 900 BC
Starting Price: £900
A bronze horse bit composed of a central crossbar with a flat-section shank. It has loops at each end and two openwork plaques, each featuring the front halves of two mouflons joined together. The animals face opposite directions, with their front legs tucked beneath their bodies and their heads finely detailed.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 130mm x 75mm; Weight: 350g
456 WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE AXE HEAD WITH SPIKES
Ca. 1300 - 1000 BC
Starting Price: £500
A bronze axe with a fenestrated blade. This type of bronze weaponry is emblematic of the region’s high- ly skilled metalwork during the early 1st millennium BC. The five-spined openwork sections along the blade were likely functional and decorative, giving the piece an aesthetic, yet intimidating, quality. For similar see: The Asian Art Museum, Object number B62B46.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.
Size: 230mm x 80mm; Weight: 975g
462 COLLECTION OF EARLY GREEK / WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE AXES
Ca. 2500 - 1500 BC
Starting Price: £500
A collection of three bronze weapons, The first is a pickaxe with a long polygonal point and a small short blade on the back. The second is an axe with a short vertical blade. The third is another axe that has a short vertical blade on the front and a decorated short blade on the back. For similar see: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Accession no. AN1965.764; Bristol Museums Collections, Object number FT8; The Louvre Museum, Main number: AO 18672, AO 20412.
Provenance: From the private collection of Mr. R. Unger; previously with a London gallery; acquired in the 1980s on the UK art market.
Size: 115-165mm x 55-80mm; Weight: 930g.
464 MESOPOTAMIAN BROWN STONE STAMP SEAL - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 3000 BC
Starting Price: £500
A brown stone stamp seal drilled vertically. The back shows a recumbent small springing animal in very deep relief. The face offers a single small springing ani- mal in drilled form. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s.
Size: 38mm x 25mm; Weight: 35g
471 NEO-ASSYRIAN RED STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th - 7th century BC
Starting Price: £800
A red stone cylinder seal with a divine hero fighting mythical creatures. A winged sun and a lunar crescent are depicted above. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 28mm x 13mm; Weight: 9.5g
472 EARLY NEO-BABYLONIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th - 7th century BC
Starting Price:
A stone cylinder seal with a deity (likely Marduk, the patron deity of Babylon) standing on a dragon. There are also icons of Marduk (spade) and Nabu (styli) and astral images (Pleiades, winged suns, eight-pointed stars and lunar crescents) in the ex- ergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 49mm x 19mm; Weight: 32g
474 AMLASH BRONZE POURING VESSELS WITH LONG SPOUT
Ca. 1100 - 800 BC
Starting Price: £800
A group of bulbous bronze vessels, characterised by a slightly concave base and a raised rim. It also features an applied long channelled spout with a neck, collec- tively evoking the form of an abstract bird. On the back side a short flat section handle. The third vessel has a circle of protruding hemispheres around the base of the spout and a moulded ring around the neck.
Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art profession- al; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 80-130mm x 190-290mm; Weight: 900g
475 AMLASH HANDLED JAR WITH ANIMAL PROTOMES
Ca. 1st Millennium BC
Starting Price:
£300
An Amlash-handled jar features a globular body with two long, quadruped-shaped lateral handles and a central high handle topped with a protome of a quadruped, likely a deer. The body is decorated with molded designs, including two verti- cal lines and two circles that may represent eyes.
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.
Size: 320mm x 200mm; Weight: 665g
476 HUGE WESTERN ASIATIC STAG-SHAPED TOP OF SCEPTRE
Ca. 1100 - 900 BC
Starting Price: £500
A cast bronze finial depicting a reclining stag, finely modelled with naturalistic details. The animal rests with its legs neatly tucked beneath its body, its head turned slightly to one side. The stag’s features include prominently arched antlers, small pointed ears, a delicately carved snout with nostrils, and detailed hooves. A short, downward-facing tail completes the figure. The stag sits atop a flaring tubular base encircled by shallow horizontal grooves. Surrounding the opening is a band of perforations, each hole suspending a small spherical bell.
Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.
Size: 155mm x 85mm; Weight: 415g
480 WESTERN ASIATIC OR PARTHIAN SILVER TORC WITH LION HEAD TERMINALS
Ca. 400 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £500
A simple silver torc of circular form with conical ter- minals in the shape of lion heads. The band narrows slightly between the termini.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s.
Size: 145mm x 130mm; Weight: 75g
482 WESTERN ASIATIC OR PARTHIAN SILVER TORC WITH GEOMETRIC MOTIFS
Ca. 400 - 200 BC
Starting Price: £800
A simple silver torc necklace of an open circular form with conical termini and flattened ends. The band of the necklace narrows slightly between the termini, which are cast to have incised, simple decorative ge- ometric motifs that precede each terminal, which flares outward.
Provenance: Private London collection; Ex. London art dealer, UK, 1990s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a con- firmation letter.
Size: 150mm x 130mm; Weight: 115g
484 SOUTH ARABIAN ALABASTER HEAD WITH INSCRIPTION IN SABAEAN SCRIPT
Ca. 1st millennium BC
Starting Price: £1000
A sculpture crafted from light cream-coloured alabaster, portraying a human head with a slightly stylised or ide- alised facial form. The features are smooth, exhibiting deep carving, with gently downturned eyes that convey a calm expression. The lips are subtly shaped, enhanc- ing the serene appearance. Encircling the base of the neck is a collar frame with Sabaean script. This item is accompanied by a modern custom-made display stand. For a similar example, see The British Museum, regis- tration number: 1985,0223.34.
Provenance: Property of a London art professional. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register da- tabase and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 170mm x 155mm; Weight: 3.76kg
485 RARE SOUTH ARABIAN STONE STATUE OF A WOMAN
Ca. 300 - 100 BC
Starting Price: £3000
An alabaster figure of a woman depicted standing, dressed in a simple, unadorned gown. Her face is stylized, featuring wide, almond-shaped eyes. Her eye- brows are in relief, her nose is long and straight, and her mouth is small. She has a broad face. Two globular breasts protrude on her chest.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Private Collection, Switzerland, 1970s; Ex. Boisgirard & Associés, Arts D’Orient: Collections Barbier-Mueller and various Amateurs, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 November 2007, Lot 40.This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 310mm x 120mm; Weight: 8.7kg
486 RARE SOUTH ARABIAN STONE STATUE OF A WOMAN
Ca. 300 BC - AD 100
Starting Price:
£3000
An alabaster figure of a woman, shown standing, wearing a lengthy, unadorned dress. Her face is stylised, with wide, almond-shaped eyes. Her eyebrows are in relief, and her nose and mouth are small. She has a broad face, with stylised hair made to resemble a wig or a cap that falls down to her shoulders. Her arms are bent at ninety degrees at the elbow. For similar see: Sotheby’s, Ancient Sculpture and Work of Art, Part II, 7 December 2022, Lot 103. For similar see: Sotheby’s, Ancient Sculpture and Work of Art, Part II, 7 December 2022, Lot 103.
Provenance: Private UK collection, acquired on the US art market; Ex. Private Collection, Switzerland, 1970s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 350mm x 145mm; Weight: 8.5kg
492 CENTRAL ASIAN BLACK STONE SEAL
Starting Price: £500
Turkmenistan, Ca. 2nd - 1st millennium BC
A large stamp seal with a floral icon engraved in the centre from which two mythical creatures extend. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 30mm x 45mm; Weight: 37g
493 COLLECTION OF NEO-ASSYRIAN QUARTZ AND CHALCEDONY SEALS
Ca. 7th - 6th century BC
Starting Price: £1000
A collection of seven stone seals, including cylinder and stamp seals crafted from chalcedony and quartz and a duck weight made of banded agate. The chal- cedony seals include one depicting two priests flanking the tree of life beneath a lunar crescent and another with a schematic creature, possibly a monkey or insect. The quartz seals feature a variety of motifs, including an eight-pointed star (Ishtar) above a cultic pedestal, a priest alongside an eight-pointed star, a schematic star above a cultic pedestal, and a floral motif with a highly schematic winged sun. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.
Size: 11-20mm x 14-26mm; Weight: 36g
495 NEO-ASSYRIAN STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 9th - 8th century BC
Starting Price: £500
A carnelian or chalcedony cylinder seal with a divine hero hunting mythical creatures. Studied by PD Dr. ha- bil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 25mm x 11mm; Weight: 6g
496 NEO-ASSYRIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th century BC
Starting Price:
A cylinder seal depicting a hero seated on horseback, hunting various mythical animals. It depicts the stand- ing weather deity (Adad) with flashes of lightning and various astral images. Pleiades, winged suns, eight-pointed stars and lunar crescents are in the exer- gue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 38mm x 21mm; Weight: 36g
497 NEO-ASSYRIAN BLACK STONE CYLINDER SEAL
Ca. 8th century BC
Starting Price: £500
A black stone cylinder seal with Ishtar as a prominent central figure in a starry nimbus. Worshipers are depicted alongside Pleiades, eight-pointed stars, lunar crescents, the emblem of Marduk (spade) and a gazelle in the exergue. Studied by PD Dr. habil. Pieter Gert van der Veen, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family col- lections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Profes- sor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), histo- rian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
Size: 42mm x 17mm; Weight: 27.2g
498 NEO-ASSYRIAN DARK STONE CYLINDER SEAL - ORIGINAL LAMBERT REPORT
Ca. 850 - 650 BC
Starting Price: £500
A dark brown stone cylinder seal. The scene depicts a town being besieged. The majority of a town’s gate- way is preserved, with two towers, in each of which an archer is shooting. To the right of the city, two men are standing and one of them is shooting an arrow. Before this, is a man advancing toward the wall holding a big reed screen for protection, and a man is falling from the city tower. To the left is a third tower, with a ladder leaning against it and a man ascending a ladder. A star and a crescent appear in the sky. Accompanied by a signed scholarly note by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert.
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; formerly with a Mayfair Art dealer S.A.; Ex. 1990s London col- lections, studied and catalogued by professor Lambert in the early 90s (with original note, signed by him). Previously in an old British collection formed since the 1960s.
Size: 46mm x 23mm; Weight: 32g
