CHINESE, JAPANESE AND ISLAMIC ART, JEWELRY AND GLASS WEIGHTS

A Roman gold ring, hollow, with a small carnelian intaglio of horse to the left, lowering its head. A very elegantly made ring of robust construct...

A Roman ring in hollow gold with an intaglio in brown carnelian of Fortuna standing right. 22 by 25 mm. Size: 15 Weight: 3.6 gr. PROVEN...

A Gothic ring in gold with a garnet inlaid bezel. The shank is made of a moulded band with a curvature which strengthens the ring soldered to the ...

A Roman gold ring with a carnelian intaglio showing and eagle with a wreath in its beak flanked by two legionary standards. Such a ring, with a mi...

A late Roman/early Byzantine gold ring.The shank is made of a six lobed element soldering a back plate, lateral sides and a repousse sheet to the ...

An attractive 'Serapis' ring with a tapering plain shank attached to a bust of Serapis with the modus on his head. This type of ring made its appe...

A necklace made from various elements. The renaissance cameo of a portrait cameo of a young man facing right, probably has a shield on his right s...

A neolithic flint scrapper mounted in a thin gold casing, possibly a little later. Such a high status object could have served a number of ceremon...

A large Roman ring in aquamarine with the shank showing a facing head of a matronly woman in the guise of the Trajanic period. The shank is ribbed...

A large Roman solid gold ring with an intaglio of a cow walking / feeding to the left, behind a tree reaches over the animal. The pastoral nature ...

An important amethyst intaglio showing the foot of Mercury, winged and with a caduceus on a butterfly, the representation of Psyche. This type of ...

A beautiful Roman intaglio of Hercules in aquamarine, facing towards the right. Deeply engraved on a double convex stone, showing a mature Hercule...

A 19th century antique ring with a Roman intaglio of a elaborate gryllos or composite capriccio. Gold and amethyst. Size: 17 by 12 mm. ...

An amethyst cameo of Medusa in the Neo-classical style on a round base. Amethyst. French or Italian 1700-1800. 29 mm. diameter.

A chalcedony scaraboid showing a satyr's head, the seal shows a satyr dancing. Chalcedony. Greek. c.525.B.C. Size: 17 by 12 mm.

A cameo of the head of a bearded man facing. After the antique. Agate Italy (?) 17/18th.c.A.D. 32 by 22 mm.

A carnelian intaglio with a concave back. From the time of the Abbasid Caliphate. Carnelian. Abbasid 9/11th.c.A.D. 16 mm.

An emerald intaglio with a bust of a man facing left from the late republican period. The stone is a bi-faced convex cabochon of a fine quality em...

This charming intaglio shows a drunken maenad holding an amphora/hydria while reposing on what looks like a bed a straw. In front of her an amor b...

A commercial weight in the form of a duck's head. Archaic period. Bronze. Greek. 6/5th.c.B.C. 34 mm.

A Roman silver ring with a carnelian intaglio showing a rabbit to the left. Silver and carnelian. Roman 2/3rd.c.A.D. 20 by 18 mm.

A large garnet intaglio showing a couple in sexual congress, the scene has almost certainly been copied from a famous bronze spintria issued under...

A duck weight made of a brownish tinged chalcedony. Neo-Assyrian. Neo-Assyrian. 6th.c.B.C. 20 mm.

A Roman intaglio made of carnelian showing an eagle facing with outstretched wings. This symbol of Rome was popular throughout the Imperial period...

A glass roundel, stamped with seven Hebrew/Phoenician letter within a wreath in blue glass and mould manufactured mounted in a silver pendant fram...

A carnelian intaglio with the bust of a woman facing left. She wears a diadem and has her hair brought up into a bun. Roman or later. Carnelian...

An exceptional intaglio in carnelian of Julia Domna, the wife of the Emperor Septimius Severus. She is shown facing left as the sealing would have...

A heavy hollow Roman gold ring with the bezel holding a stamper foil 'LEG XII FVL'. This refers to the twelfth legion Fulminata stationed in the C...

A large silver ring dedicated to St.Theodore. The ring is covered with Niello decoration, including the dedicatory inscription around the bezel. ...

A large cameo of the best known king of Armenia, Tigranes II or better known as 'The Great'. His long reign is known for the expansion of his real...

A large white agate Roman cameo showing the head of the Medusa facing, slightly to the left. A very fine specimen of an ever popular subject which...

A round silver gilt phalera from the late classical period showing the combat of a cavalryman with a foot soldier. The horseman is attacking the s...

These figurines of raptors in silver seem to originate in the region of Caesaria in eastern Anatolia. The famous mines of mount Argaeus provided l...

A Byzantine silver pectoral cross with nielloed inlays. At the centre is a lozenge shaped cross with niello inlay while the ends of the cross are ...

Two Byzantine bronze commercial weights, possibly from the same set. Probably originally inlaid with copper or silver they represent three and one...

Three bronze pectoral crosses, Byzantine. One has Christ and the four evangelists in low relief. Bronze, Byzantine 6/8th.c.A.D. 2.1 cm, 5...

Four silver inlaid commercial weights of varying sizes. The inlays are in the heads of the figures, various rulers and saints/angels. Bronze a...

A finely made owl made by the lost wax method of very fine workmanship. The owl is shown standing and is a very fine casting which resembles earli...

A late Roman pedestal cup with a double skin to keep the liquid cool in the interior. The base is also closed by an element closing the interior, ...

A semi-spherical helmet of the Spangelhelm type popular with the Byzantines and other armies of western Europe during the later part of the first ...

A charming Roman silver gilt plate from the period of the late empire copying earlier prototypes of the first century. The central tondo shows a s...

A large iron Byzantine processional cross from the middle Byzantine period. The choice of iron was common for such crosses in particular for the c...

A Roman short dagger or puglio made of iron with its sheath intact. The puglio was for use as a secondary weapon or for fighting at close quarters...

Of circular openwork form with nine holding rings around the perimeter for lamps, a central rosette, three suspension chains attached to rim loops...