GENTLEMEN'S LIBRARY, GRAND TOUR AND AUCTION OF CURIOSITIES

Antiquities - an Ancient Egyptian faience ushabti, typical turquoise glaze, moulded in low relief with hieroglyphic script, 7cm long, MS collector...

A collection of antiquities and natural history specimens, including Medieval and later clasps, harness studs, lead and other weights, medallions...

A Native American terracotta bowl, decorated in tones of red and black with stylised birds and geometric motifs, 15.5cm diam; another (2)

A near pair of pumice stone bowls, carved with a band of scrolling vine and inscribed Stone From The Dead Sea, turned banding, 12cm diam; a Derbys...

A 'pre-Columbian' earthenware peyote pipe, the bowl modelled as a stylized blade, 16.5cm long, collector's accession label

A pre-Columbian terracotta vessel, in the form of a stylized bird, 'Vitruvian' scroll borders, spreading foot, 14.5cm high

An Indian hardwood votive doll, carved as a stylized female figure, 22.5cm long

Antiquities - a collection of fragments, clay figures, metal detector finds, etc, various periods

Antiquities - a Greco-Roman Egyptian terracotta tear-shapedc oil lamp, moulded in relief with flutes, angular spout, 10.5cm long, probably Alexand...

Antiquities - a string of Mesopotamian quoit-shaped beads; other amulets and fragments

Antiquities - an Indonesian volcanic stone stele, carved with deities and a chariot driven by beasts, skirted base, 21cm high, 40cm wide, Majapahi...

Tribal Art - a collection of cane and hardwood spears, variously worked with coloured pigments and wicker bandings, the longest 152cm, Papua New G...

Tribal Art - a Dan or Gio mask, domed forehead, the scarified features with central ridge, white pigment, 20cm long, Liberia or Côte d'Ivoire

Tribal Art - a Dan/Gio mask, concave face with pronounced nose and tubular eyes, outlined with a band of cowry shells, above a beard and articulat...

Tribal Art - a Dogon kanaga mask, for wear at the dama collective funerary rite, typical double-barred superstructure, angular features with centr...

Tribal Art - a Dowayo (Namji) fertility doll, standing upright on outswept U-shaped legs, adorned with cowrie and threaded shells, 21cm high, Came...

Tribal Art - a Guro/Kweni mask, carved and brightly painted with scarified features and a lofty cresting of horns and snakes, 59cm long, Ivory Coa...

Tribal Art - a Indonesian softwood helmet mask, carved with four faces, decorated in polychrome, 30cm high, possibly Bali

Tribal Art - a Maori hardwood contemplative evening pipe, the bowl as a grotesque man, inset and applied with irregularly opalescent stones for ey...

Tribal Art - a Maori model waka canoe, carved with stylised motifs and inlaid with abalone roundels, the hull indistinctly inscribed, 61cm long

Tribal Art - a Nkysi fetish or power figure, standing, his arms flanking a niche at his waist, 39cm high, Congo Basin

Tribal Art - a Papua New Guinea axe, wicker bound head, 70cm long overall

Tribal Art - a Papua New Guinea club or staff, wicker bound head, curved shaft carved with stylized scrolls terminating in a serpent, 115cm long

Tribal Art - a Papua New Guinea green hardstone axe head, 19cm long, 19th century; a similar tool, nephrite-type, 17.5cm long (2)

Tribal Art - a sabre teeth and bead necklace, strung throughout with harlequin glass and earthenware beads, various colours and styles, 35cm long,...

Tribal Art - a South Seas hardwood lime spatula, possibly Massim Trobriand Islands, elliptical finial carved with a band of stylised knot motifs, ...

Tribal Art - a Yaka fertility figure, elongated head, standing nude, 33cm high, Congo

Tribal Art - a Yoruba figure, carved as a mother holding a child, 25cm high, Nigeria; another, of a man, seated, 23.5cm high (2)

Tribal Art - a Zulu hardwood Chief's status or prestige staff, of knobkerrie form, fluted head, wire cound knopped stem, the lower shaft carved wi...

Tribal Art - a Zulu hardwood status staff or stick, globular head, open-twist shaft, 98.5cm long, c.1900; another (2)

Tribal Art - a Zulu status staff, domed knobkerrie head, spirally turned shaft, 94cm long, 19th century

Tribal Art - an African assegai spear, 139cm long overall

Tribal Art - an African axe, the blade shaped and pierced with a bird and snake, spiral cresting, hardwood shaft with further blade to spine, 57cm...

Tribal Art - an African figural headrest, the curved cresting with chequered ends, above a double female figure, oval base, geometric carved borde...

Tribal Art - an African figural house post totem, carved with a mask with scarified features, picked out in red and white pigments, 52cm long

Tribal Art - an African figural pipe, carved as a seated tribesman smoking, 21cm high; a terracotta figure, of a bearded elder, 15.5cm high (2)

Tribal Art - an African figural status staff, double-sided, carved with masks and geometric lozenges, 59cm long

Tribal Art - an African hardwood club or staff, domed oval pommel, twisted flat section stem, 56cm long

Tribal Art - an African hardwood club, the head carved with stylised features, 51cm long, early 20th century

Tribal Art - an African hardwood fertility figure, of a female kneeling, an infant held to her breast, 21cm high

Tribal Art - an African hardwood figural scoop, 30cm long

Tribal Art - an African senufo or bamoum pipe section, the stem applied with Benin antelope bosses and rings, wrapped in snakeskin, 43cm long, Nig...

Tribal Art - an African staff or walking cane, carved as a stylised snake, 97cm long; another (2)

Tribal Art - an Australian Aboriginal hardwood woomera spear thrower, of typical broad leaf shape and incise carved with bands of motifs, gum to b...

Tribal Art - an Inuit bone fishing harpoon, double-arrow head, barbed throughout, 13cm long, possibly Alaska; another, similar, 15.4cm long (2)

Tribal Art - an Oceanian canoe paddle, the broad, pointed head painted in red and white pigments with a face and stylised motifs, 142cm long, Solo...

Tribal Art - a Polynesian hardwood paddle-club, long leaf-shaped terminal, 141cm long, Solomon Islands, 19th/early 20th century