TimeLine Auctions 6 Day Antiquities and Coin Sale

12th-15th century AD. A substantial bronze onion-top thimble with ribbed collar and concentric circles to the top, the body with hand-punched inde...

20th century AD. A group of two inscribed pendants, one piriform with carnelian insert and the other rectangular with an chalcedony panel. 92 gra...

7th-11th century AD. A squat cut glass vessel with nine-sided body and thick flat base, facetted short neck with wide aperture. 113 grams, 56mm (...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD. A silver-gilt piriform bifacial plaque with central rosette surrounded by a grid and text, calligraphic band with...

19th century AD. A very large glazed ceramic amphora-type vase with flared foot and rim, large applied discoid handles; elaborate floral and geome...

9th-10th century AD. A garnet cabochon with Kufic inscription, set into a later silver finger ring with channels to the shoulders, rectangular bez...

19th century AD. A square hardstone seal, engraved with four Qur'anic verses in large thuluth script: 'The word from a Merciful Lord (for them) is...

18th-19th century AD. A mixed group of bronze seals, each with nasta'liq legend. 21.2 grams total, 21-24mm (1"). From the collection of a Europea...

20th century AD. A necklace of spherical bone beads, two tapering ribbed tubular beads and centrepiece of graduated spherical beads. 45.3 grams, ...

10th-12th century AD. A drum-shaped glass jar with reserved ornament to the sidewall, deep shoulder and trumpet-shaped mouth. 84 grams, 78mm (3")...

12th-14th century AD. A ceramic ewer with ribbed sidewall and neck, beast-head finial with pellet eyes and short spout, twisted strap handle to th...

19th century AD. A rectangular carnelian cloison with incised calligraphic Nasta?l?q script, rosettes and tendrils, set in an openwork cell with s...

19th century AD or earlier. A bronze tubular ferrule or finial with ribbed collar, stylised dog's head with ribbed detailing to the muzzle and els...

19th century AD. A carved wooden bifacial panel with calligraphic legend 'Allah Mohamed Mohamed' reflected to form facial features with a D-shaped...

20th century AD. A pair of carnelian intaglios comprising: one oval-shaped with four lines of calligraphic text within a border; one octagonal-sha...

10th-13th century AD. A restrung necklace composed of conical, spherical and facetted barrel-shaped jet beads; interlaced with gold-in-glass barre...

11th-12th century AD. A piriform clear glass jar with disc base and flared rim, relief-cut facetting and tendrils to the lower body. Cf. Whitehous...

7th-11th century AD. A squat cut glass vessel with drum-shaped body and short facetted neck, the body with cut U-shaped decoration. 87 grams, 49m...

Early 20th century AD. An ellipsoid sard cloison with dense Nasta'liq script text from the Qur'an amid rosettes and tendrils, set in a silver fing...

12th-14th century AD. A bronze disc medallion with central profile peacock motif, outer band of kufic text. 34.9 grams, 47mm (2"). From the famil...

14th-16th century AD. An opaque glass jar with bulbous body, crimped applied collar to the shoulder, flared spout, applied tail, head on extended ...

12th-14th century AD. A silver ring with flat-section hoop and expanding shoulders, the hoop with raised swallow-tail plaques with curlicues, inci...

18th century AD. A blue glass intaglio with two lines of calligraphic text, set in a later silver ring. 3.15 grams, 23.59mm overall, 19.99mm inte...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD. A leaf-shaped uniface jade plaque with deckled edges engraved with three bands of calligraphic script and floral ...

13th-14th century AD. A facetted silver hoop bracelet with five loops to the closure and separate fastening pin, flanked by four wire coils each w...

1st-17th century AD. A mixed artefact group comprising: an ancient shallow bronze bowl with raised rosette to the centre, calligraphic inscription...

9th-10th century AD. A blue glass vessel with bulbous body and gently flared neck, the body iridescent with cut geometric decoration. 66.32 grams...

12th-13th century AD. An oval-shaped orange carnelian intaglio with two lines of early Arabic script. 14.1 grams, 14mm (1/2"). From an important ...

20th century AD. A silver ring with D-section hoop expanding at the fluted shoulders, raised rectangular bezel with inset black glass intaglio eng...

19th century AD. A silver slip-case for an amuletic prayer text, with the names inlaid in niello with hatched texture: 'Allah, Mohamed, Ali, Hassa...

8th-10th century AD. A blue glass ewer bead with applied trail handle, two mosaic glass inserts and scooped cells for others. 10.2 grams, 34mm (1...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD. A bronze hemispherical bowl with domed centre, chamfered rim, bands of nasta'liq text to both faces, guilloche to...

13th-14th century AD. A hollow-formed bronze incense burner representing a crouching feline (lion?) with feet resting on a tongue-shaped base, hin...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD. A bifacial carved wooden spandrel or panel depicting interlaced or knotted bands. 4.6 kg, 59cm (23 1/4"). From t...

18th century AD or later. A bronze disc flask with lateral loops and rings, tapering neck, repoussé reserved beetle on a textured field to the obv...

18th century AD. A red jasper disc cloison with calligraphic text within concentric border rings, owner's name within a cartouche and verse from t...

20th century AD. A silver pentagonal pendant with scooped claw setting, hexagonal-section crystal block with calligraphic nasta'liq inscriptions. ...

20th century AD. A silver finger ring with scallop shoulders, ellipsoid cell with inset carnelian cloison, inscribed nasta'liq calligraphic legend...

20th century AD. A mixed group of amuletic pendants in carnelian, agate and other material each with a panel of calligraphic text to one face. 83...

14th-16th century AD. An opaque glass jar with bulbous body, crimped applied collar to the shoulder and panels to the body, short spout, dimple ba...

20th century AD or earlier. A mixed group of pendants awaiting inscription comprising: a banded agate plaque with one convex face; a rock crystal ...

10th-16th century AD. A pair of stone intaglios with calligraphic inscriptions comprising: an oval carnelian intaglio with calligraphic border sur...

Late 19th-early 20th century AD. A domed, felted camel-hair cap (sikke) with embroidered ornament including a rosette to the crown, arabesque pane...

12th-14th century AD. A pair of miniature glass bottles comprising: one with a tubular body and short neck; one with a bulbous body and fluted nec...

20th century AD and earlier. A mixed group of gemstones including a lapis lazuli rectangle with profile bust, a large carnelian cabochon with pran...

19th century AD. A sheet bronze casket, ellipsoid in plan with domed lid; the body with repoussé frieze of crouching tigers beneath an epigraphic ...

20th century AD. A silver finger ring with large discoid bezel, inset carnelian plaque with dense nasta'liq calligraphic text. 23.20 grams, 36.07...

15th-16th century AD. A cream-glazed ceramic footed bowl with calligraphic text to the centre outlined against a pointillé field, with pellets, or...

20th century AD or earlier. A bronze bird figure in archaistic style with inlaid silver eyes, band of calligraphic text to each wing and the chest...

19th-early 20th century AD. A restrung necklace of lapis lazuli seed beads in forty-nine strands. 36.6 grams, 38cm (15"). Private collection, Sou...

9th-11th century AD. A pair of hollow ceramic vessels each with conical body, intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as ...

15th century AD. A group of two bronze scabbard chapes comprising: one tongue-shaped with slot to each face, openwork lateral lobes to the obverse...

15th century AD. A triangular-section silver chape for a poignard sheath with crimped upper edge, reserved fleur-de-lys on a hatched heater shield...

5th-3rd century BC. A large group of one hundred bronze socketted arrowheads, mainly triangular-section and leaf-shaped. 448 grams total, 27-49mm...

2nd millennium BC. A bronze leaf-shaped short sword blade with raised median panel and short tang. 375 grams, 45.5cm (18"). Property of a North W...

13th-6th century BC. A bronze axehead with oval ribbed socket, flat upper face with raised rib section, hooked vertical blade to the forward edge....

9th-11th century AD. A hollow ceramic vessel with domed top and conical base intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick, and used as a...

3rd-1st century BC. A mixed group of iron spearheads comprising: one with long leaf-shaped blade, thick midrib and point, flared socket; one simil...

12th-9th century BC. A bronze ceremonial macehead of biconical shape, incised concentric chevron motifs radiating from the central band. 294 gram...

12th-13th century AD. A slender iron axehead with hooked blade and long rectangular-section neck, discoid plaque with collars to each side of the ...