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Lot 87
AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ NICOLAS FRAGONARD French bronze plaques, a pair - cast in relief with romantic figures in Arcadian landscapes, E. Gruet Jeune foundry mark verso and bears initials to front, framed, 27 x 19cms (2) Condition Report: one with signs of restoration to rear, high points slightly rubbed.
Lot 630
A PORT OF PLYMOUTH SWIMMING ASSOCIATION & HUMANE SOCIETY BRONZE MEDAL TO JOHN RUNDLE engraved verso 'PORT OF / PLYMOUTH / HUMANE SOCIETY / AWARDED TO / JOHN SAMUEL RUNDLE / FOR / SAVING THE LIFE / OF / BEATRICE MAUD BAYLEY / OFF THE / HOE / ON / AUGUST 24TH 1894', with brooch mount for wearing.
Lot 601
Vinyl - Three Uriah Heep LPs to include The Magicians Birthday on Bronze ILPS9213 with lyrics inner sleeve, gatefold sleeve, Demons and Wizards on Island ILPS9193 gatefold sleeve, vinyl vg+ but good use a clean, sleeve vg++ and …Very 'Eavy on Bronze BRNA142 laminated gatefold, vinyl vg+ with a few marks/scratches, sleeves vg+ (3)
Lot 289
Rome, Probus, bronze Antoninianus, Salus standing right feeding snake, billon Tetradrachm, Eagle left LB, and a similar example; Constantine I, three bronze Follis, Sol standing holding globe, another two soldiers holding spears and shields with two standards between them, another Roman castle camp-gate, two AE3; Crispus, two bronze Follis, laurel wreath enclosing VOT X, another PTR Globe set on altar inscribed VO/TIS / XX; Constans I, bronze Follis, VOT / XX / MVLT / XXX SMALA; Constantius Gallus, bronze Follis, Siscia mint, soldier left, holding shield and spearing falling horseman (12)
Lot 3153
Japanese Meiji period bronze Elephant after Genryusai Seiya, two character signature on the foot, 13.5cmPLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM CONTAINS OR IS MADE OF IVORY. Buyers must be aware that regulations of several countries, including USA, prohibit the import of ivory, or any goods containing ivory. Ewbank’s advise prospective purchasers who intend to ship this lot to another country that they must familiarise themselves with the relevant import/export regulations prior to bidding. They are responsible for their shipping arrangements and the onus is therefore on them to organise their own shipping.
Lot 3220
Queen Victoria, Golden Jubilee, 1887, the official silvered medal, by Sir J. E. Boehm and (reverse) Frederick, Lord Leighton, engraved by L. C. Wyon, crowned and veiled bust l., rev. the Queen enthroned surrounded by seven figures of the Arts and Industries of Britain, in red leather case of issue with descriptive card, together with a bronze copy of the same. Presentation inscription to the edge of the silvered medal. (2)
Lot 312
An accumulation of pre-decimal bronze coins weight 2.4kg, pre-decimal cupro-nickel weight 1.165kg & brass threepences weight 1.19kg & 14 x cupro-nickel crowns (10 x 1977 & 4 x 1980), together with approximately 500 foreign coins, virtually all 20th century low denomination base metal European coins, very few silver, weight 2.3kg & 16 x foreign banknotes, mostly low grade
Lot 101
A Bactrian bronze axe head Circa late 3rd - early 2nd Millennium B.C.With a large flaring trapezoid blade, the shank decorated with triangular recessed, the shaft with incised linear decoration, surmounted by the foreparts of conjoined ibexes, with large curving horns and perforated eyes, 24.4cm longFootnotes:Provenance:with Medhi Mahboubian, New York, 1960s. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 10 June 2010, lot 5. Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 105
Two Near Eastern bronze axeheads Circa early 2nd Millennium B.C.-1st Millennium B.C.Comprising a Canaanite duck-billed axehead, socketed and with two characteristic apertures in the blade; and a Luristan axehead with a crescentic blade and tulip-shaped collar with incised bands, 10.6cm long and 9.5cm high respectively (2)Footnotes:Provenance:with Korban Gallery, London, 1989.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 106
A Luristan bronze horse bit Circa 8th-7th Century B.C.The cheek pieces in the form of two open-work horses depicted with curled manes, elongated legs and long tails, connected with a crossbar with hoop terminals, 9.2cm high x 15cm wideFootnotes:Provenance:with Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, 1975 (Kokusai Bijutsu: Exceptionally Beautiful Western Ancient Art Exhibition, no. 60).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 107
A Luristan bronze horned figure of a god Circa late 2nd - early 1st Millennium B.C.The stylized elongated male figure wearing a horned headdress and incised belt, his hands clasping the handle of an unidentifed object, his face with large elliptical eyes beneath arching brows, with small domed buttocks, the details incised including the eyes, brows, chest, arms and hands, 12.7cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Pierre Levy collection; Hôtel Drouot, 26 September 1980, lot 11. Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 October 2010, lot 313.Private collection, Geneva, acquired at the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 108
A South Arabian bronze bull's head attachment Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.With short curved horns set above small protruding ears, the large rounded eyes with pronounced rims and ridged eyebrows, with short wrinkled muzzle, the back with curved hollow recess, 12cm long x 9cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, 1960s, Switzerland.For a bronze bull with similar features, dating to 1st-2nd Century A.D., see St. John Simpson (ed.), Queen of Sheba, Treasures from ancient Yemen, London, 2002, p. 174, no. 224, British Museum acc. no. ANE 1971-2-27. Bull imagery occurs frequently in Southwest Arabian decorative art and is found on funerary stelae, seals and dedicatory religious sculpture, as well as in architectural elements.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 132
An Egyptian bronze triad sarcophagus Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-525 B.C. Depicting Osiris, wearing the atef crown, arms crossed holding the crook and flail, with a suspension loop behind his back, the engraved T-shaped dorsal column below, flanked by Horus the child to his right, depicted nude, striding forward on his left leg and wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with the side lock of youth, a suspension loop at his proper right foot, on the other side is Isis striding forward on her left leg, wearing a horned sun-disc and tripartite wig, the triad standing on a hollow integral plinth, the front panel cast in relief with the child god squatting, flanked by Isis and Thoth in adoration, a panel on either side with falcon-headed soul of Pe and jackal-headed soul of Nekhen, the back of the plinth with panels depicting a male figure, probably the deceased, in jubilation posture, in the central panel a lotus flower leaning on a column, a third panel, removable and now missing, revealing the hollow interior, to the right of the aperture an inscription giving the donor's identity: 'May Isis give life to Wedja-hor son of Pa-di-hor', the short sides of the plinth with further depictions of Pe and Nekhen, 14cm high, 10.2cm wideFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Cardiff, formed in the 1920s.Private collection, Aberystwyth, acquired from the above ca. 2004. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 3 April 2014, lot 165.Private collection, UK, acquired from the above sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 133
An Egyptian bronze Neith Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.Depicted striding on an integral base, her left leg advanced, wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and an ankle-length tightly-fitted sheath dress, her slender face with almond-shaped eyes with extended cosmetic lines and small pert mouth, 22cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Switzerland, 1970s. Anonymous sale; Schuler Auktionen, Zurich, June 2011, lot 1017. Private collection, Geneva, acquired from the above sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 16
A pair of Greek bronze greaves Classical Period, circa 6th-4th Century B.C.The full-length greaves with the calf muscles and knees well modelled, the outer edge pierced with attachment holes, each 45cm long (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Kunz collection, Antwerp.Stark collection, Germany.Galerie und prähistorisches Museum, Müllenbach, 2005.Private collection, Netherlands, acquired from the above.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 17
A Greek tinned bronze Chalcidian helmet Circa 5th-4th Century B.C.The domed crown with medial ridge, with contoured double curve above the brow continuing as an occipital rib around the helmet, with pronounced arched brows and narrow flared neck guard, the hinges remaining for the missing cheek-pieces, 25cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, England. with Royal-Athena Galleries (Art of the Ancient World, vol. XV, 2004, no. 55). UK art market.For a similar helmet complete with hinged cheek-pieces see The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, acc. no. 54.2468. There is a more elaborate version of the Chalcidian type helmet at the British Museum, acc. no. 1919, 1119.6, which is dated to 450-400 B.C. and was found near Salonika, Macedonia.The Chalcidian type helmet derives its name from the city of Chalcis in Euboea where the helmets are first seen depicted on pottery thought to come from the city. It is most likely that this type of helmet was derived from the Corinthian form but developed to be lighter with better hearing and vision. Chalcidian helmets were popular throughout the Hellenistic world particularly in Greece during the 5th-4th Centuries. The type was still being worn in the era of Alexander the Great by armoured soldiers such as hoplites.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 18
An Etruscan bronze oinochoe Circa late 6th - 5th Century B.C.The ovoid body with a short cylindrical neck, the trefoil mouth angled upward with a long spout, the ribbed handle cast separately, terminating in a palmette below, the join to the rim terminating in buds, 25.3cm highFootnotes:Provenance:J. R. collection, New York, 1970s-1991.For a similar bronze oinochoe see the British Museum, London, acc. no. 1867,0508.729.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 43
A Roman bronze figure of Alexander as an equestrian Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.Depicted seated, wearing a cuirass and pleated tunic, his chlamys pinned by a round fibula at his left shoulder and draped around his left arm, with characteristic leonine locks, remains of a headdress, 8.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired prior to 1996.Published: F. Antonovich, Les Métamorphoses Divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1996, p. 82.Alexander was a famously skilled horseman. His trusted steed was Bucephalus, who Plutarch (Lives, 6.1-8) tells us Alexander won in 344 B.C., aged 12 or 13, by way of a wager with his father, King Philip II. Philonicus the Thessalian offered Bucephalus to Philip for 13 talents, a hefty price. Philip thought the horse unbreakable, but Alexander bet he could tame the horse and, if he could not, offered to pay the cost himself. Alexander of course won the bet, subduing the anxious horse by speaking soothingly, and turning him towards the sun so he could no longer be distressed by his own shadow. Thereafter, they were inseparable, until Bucephalus died as a result of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Hydaspes in June 326 B.C.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 46
A Romano-Egyptian bronze Isis Lactans Circa 1st Century B.C.-1st Century A.D.The goddess depicted seated on a throne with stepped base, once nursing Horus, now missing, her right hand held to her left breast, her left cradling the head of the child, wearing a long pleated chiton and enveloped in a characteristic fringed mantle, bound in an 'Isis' knot between the breasts, a headdress of a solar disc between cow's horns and surmounted by plumes atop her wavy hair, styled in corkscrew 'Libyan' curls falling onto her back, 12cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Dr J. Dénier collection.Mr A. collection, Paris, acquired prior to 1996.Published:F. Antonovich, Les Métamorphoses Divines d'Alexandre, Paris, 1996, p. 104.Cf. two larger examples of this subject dating to the same period, both in serpentine, at the Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, acc. no. ÄS4201, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, acc. no. 79.AA.218.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 59
A Roman bronze fragmentary bust of a young man Circa early 1st Century A.D.Comprising a head and upper torso, his face with delicate features and large, heavy-lidded, unarticulated eyes, with thick hair falling in comma-shaped locks over his forehead, wearing a chlamys pinned on the left shoulder with a circular fibula and revealing his bare chest, his right arm raised in the commanding gesture of adlocutio, torso 19cm high, head 23cm highFootnotes:Provenance: John (1900-1976) and Gertrude Hunt (1903-1997) collection, Dublin. Private collection, England, acquired from the above between 1976-1981. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 26 April 2007, lot 118. Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.This bust displays similarities with early Imperial bronzes, such as the portrait of Caligula in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (acc. no. 2003.670). The Houston Caligula also has a lean face, rounded chin, cap of layered hair and locks brushed in front of the ears, and therefore suggests that this bust may also be a portrait of a Julio-Claudian prince. Furthermore, the gesture of adlocutio was usually performed by the emperor in a civic or military context, most famously in the Prima Porta statue. For similar, see a bronze head of a male youth dating to the early 1st Century A.D. at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek (acc. no. I.N.2758).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 6
A pair of Villanovan bronze 'sanguisuga' type fibulae Circa 8th-early 7th Century B.C.The boat-shaped bows with incised bands of chevrons, the head formed of a spiral with two turns, 8cm long x 4.7cm high (2)Footnotes:Provenance: with Byron Zoumboulakis, Geneva, 1996.For similar, see M. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule, Greek, Roman and Etruscan Bronze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1971, p.235, no.341.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 60
A Roman bronze arm Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.Preserving the slnder forearm emerging from a swathe of drapery, the left hand with extended index and middle finger, the remaining fingers curled and the thumb slightly bent, with naturalistically detailed nails, 21cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Belgium, acquired in the 1970s; and thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 61
A Roman bronze strigil and a Roman bronze ladle Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.The strigil with concave tapering blade, the cylindrical handle fenestrated, the handle and exterior of the blade with incised linear decoration, the blade punched with wavy lines, leaves, scrolls, and a pair of fish at the curve, the handle punched with scroll, leaf and a fish, a nail incised at the tip, affixed to a later bronze base; together with a ladle with curling terminals, strigil 27.5cm high; ladle 21.1cm high (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Mr S. Zuckerman (1942-2017) collection, acquired from Tetragon, Portobello Road in the 1980s; and thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 63
A Roman bronze strigil Circa 1st Century A.D.With concave tapering blade, the cylindrical handle fenestrated, the exterior of the blade and upper portion of the handle with delicately incised linear decoration, a punched shrub with curling tendrils on the blade, and a dotted wavy line on each side of the curving exterior, 21.2cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Germany, 1950s-1970s. NB collection, Wiltshire, acquired from the above. with Helios Gallery, London. Private collection, UK, acquired from the above 29 November 2004.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 68
A large Celtic bronze trumpet whorl roundel Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.The openwork design with curled tendrils of the 'trumpet' style, with three original bronze rivets, 12.5cm diam. Footnotes:Provenance:Munich art market. K. S. collection, Cologne, 1995-2016.For a related, but less ornate example, see the Seattle Art Museum, acc. no. 59.22, reproduced in D.G. Mitten and S.F. Doeringer (eds), Master Bronzes of the Classical World, Mainz, 1968, p. 312, no. 314.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 70
A Romano-Celtic bronze and enamel vessel section Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.Of domed form with a bronze bulls-head shaped plate on one side, the exterior decorated with four bands of cloisonné enamel, the top band composed of crescents, the three lower bands of interlocking commas or waves, in red, blue and turquoise enamel, possibly the upper section of a small situla, 14.7cm diam.Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, France, 1990s.French art market, 2002.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 23 October 2013, lot 143.The present lot would appear to be the upper section of an enamel situla, now missing its base. Similar composite enamel vessels have been excavated in Britain, including at Bartlow Hills, Cambridgeshire. Such vessels would have been made in multiple parts and soldered together, as it was not technically possible to execute larger enamel work vessels in one piece. It has been suggested that this lot is British in origin but another example of an elaborately enamelled Roman bronze flask formed in two parts, dated to 250–300 A.D., was found in Charente, France (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 47.100.5).For a discussion of large elaborate enamelled vessels such as the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan, see D. Breeze (ed.), The First Souvenirs - Enamelled Vessels from Hadrian's Wall, Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeol. Soc., 2012.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 72
Three Roman bronze lion-headed handles Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.Circular and cast in high relief with the head of a lion, with engraved details of the mane, eyes and brows, the details of the fur finely chased, an attachment hole on either side of each ear, one bearing a loose ridged ring in its gaping jaw, 11cm diam. each (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, Switzerland. Anonymous sale; Schuler Auktionen, Zurich, 22 June 1995, lot 2516.Private collection, Germany, acquired at the above sale.For a closely related example, said to come from a chest, see M. Comstock and C.C. Vermeule (eds), Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1971, p.461, no. 672.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 81
A Bronze Age gold ribbon bracelet Circa 2000-1200 B.C.Formed from a looped and doubled thin gold sheet, with hook and eye terminal, 6.8cm diam., weight 9.3g.Footnotes:Provenance:Private collection, England, found at Feltwell, Norfolk, in March 1998 after exceptionally deep ploughing in peat beside a shallow chalk ridge (a Middle Bronze Age palstave was also found in the same area).Disclaimed as Treasure Trove in 1998.Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 October 2007, lot 158.Mr J. N. & Mrs J. E. Didcock collection, UK, acquired from the above sale; and thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 93
A Danish flint dagger Late Neolithic Period, circa 2000-1700 B.C.Of grey flint, with elongated leaf-shaped blade and long straight-sided grip of lentoid cross-section, 23.3cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Commander Coventry Makgill-Crichton-Maitland (1877-1958) collection; thence by descent.The above dagger belongs to Scandanavian flint dagger Type II. For examples of Danish flint daggers with similarly proportioned grip and blade, see A. MacGregor, Antiquities form Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, 1987, pp 78-80, figs. 4.210; 4.212 and 4.211.It is likely that daggers such as the above were objects of status rather than being of practical use. When the National Museum of Ireland carried out microwear analysis of its Late Neolithic Danish daggers it was found that the wear was consistent with the implements having been frequently taken out of their protective sheaths, probably for display purposes, and that it was unlikely that the wear suggested any utilitarian purpose. Great skill would have been required of the flint knappers producing such fine daggers, and it is believed that these craftsmen were inspired by contemporary European Early Bronze Age metal daggers.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 97
Three Elamite bronze axeheads Circa 3rd-2nd Millennium B.C.Comprising an axehead with flaring blade and slightly convex edge, the shaft socket with a profile lion in relief on each side, its mouth open wide, its breath becoming the midrib of the blade; an axehead with rounded blade with a pierced eye incised at the base of the raised, forked midrib on each side, and crest-like protome with incised lines protruding from the back of the shaft; and an axehead with crescentic blade, the slanted shaft-hole with a stylised eye in relief on each side, a balancing downward curving tang on the other side, 17.2cm long, 19.5cm long and 17.5cm respectively (3)Footnotes:Provenance:Oliver Hoare (1945-2018) collection, UK, acquired in September 1997 from the London art market.For a similar axehead to item one, see P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection, London, 1974, p.40, no. 5.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 1138
GREEK BRONZE STATUE - NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE, 1966 a classical style bronze statue mounted on a marble plinth, with plaques on the base Reproduction of a bronze stutuette of a young athlete, late 6th Century, National Archaeological Museum Athens, On the Occasion of the 125th Anniversary of the Founding of the National Bank of Greece, 1841-1966. 35.5cms high overall
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