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Click here to subscribe20th century AD. A miniature composition copy of Galata Morente or 'The Dying Gaul', a Roman marble copy of a lost Hellenistic sculpture thought to have been executed in bronze; the warrior shown nude, wounded in the chest with broken sword, horn and shield around him, on a tiered rectangular base. 760 grams, 21cm (8 1/4"). Fine condition. [No Reserve]
20th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a censer of a face with open mouth for the aperture, radiating crown with inset cabochons, three stub legs; two figures of Krishna crawling. holding a pearl. 1.3 kg, 9.5-14cm (3 3/4 - 5 1/2"). Property of a Gloucestershire gentleman; inherited from his grandfather. Fine condition. [3, No Reserve]
7th-10th century AD. Group comprising: mixed Islamic bronze issues (3); with a silver dirham; with a provincial issue Roman bronze, late Roman bronzes (5), other ancient bronzes (5), a Basil II(?) follis and a USA medalet (July 1868, pierced). 60 grams total. Fair to near fine. [17, No Reserve]
19th century AD. A sheet bronze ewer with convex base, bell-shaped body, flat shoulder, carinated neck with pouring lip, conical lid with knop finial, square-section handle with thumb-pad stamped 'RD3X : :TAH'. 1.8 kg, 41cm (16 1/4"). Property of a Gloucestershire gentleman; inherited from his grandfather. Fair condition. [No Reserve]
A pair of undated archaistic bronze figurines on bases comprising: a warrior leaning to remove a sword piercing his left side; a warrior of the Nuragic culture of Sardinia with two shields. 570 grams total, 12.5-15cm (5 - 6"). Property of a Gloucestershire gentleman; inherited from his grandfather. Fine condition. [2, No Reserve]
9th-12th century AD. A mixed group of bronze harness jingles comprising: one large conical type; seven openwork jingles; two plain, lentoid section; one rumbler type. 64 grams total, 21-48mm (3/4 - 2"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Fine condition. [11, No Reserve]
9th-14th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a buckle with kidney-shaped loop and triangular plate; three wolf-head mounts; a cruciform pendant with pins to the lobes; a Y-shaped domed mount; four rectangular dangles on a loop; a pierced gilded cruciform mount; a slider mount with loop and ring; a discoid mount with three pierced lugs, lozengiform dangle. 68 grams total, 17-48mm (3/4 - 2"). Property of an American collector; acquired 1980-2000. Fair condition. [13]
19th century AD. A discoid bronze seal matrix with curved wooden handle; imperial double-headed eagle surrounded by the legend '???????????? ?.?.?. ???' (Krasilovsky); offered with museum-quality impression 100 grams total, seal: 88mm (3 1/2"). From an old Hampshire collection, found river Thames foreshore, London, UK, 1974. Fair condition, usage wear. [No Reserve]
1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group of miniature bells comprising: two rectangular-section iron cowbells; two bronze hemispherical with trefoil loops; one bronze domed with four lugs to the mouth; one bronze hexagonal-section faceted; one bronze lentoid in plan. 14 grams total, 21-58mm (3/4 - 2 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Fair condition. [7, No Reserve]
16th-19th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a silver-gilt spherical dress pin finial; a decorative pendant with profile of the sphinx; a tongue-shaped strap end with securing rivet; a bronze clasp engraved in italic script 'The Rev. Horn[...]' and 'Sookie [.]ell Suffolk'; a mount formed from looped bronze wire. 61 grams total, 11-61mm (1/2 - 2 1/2"). Property of an East Anglia gentleman; acquired on the London art market. Fine condition. [5, No Reserve]
9th-12th century AD. A mixed group of bronze finger rings comprising: seven round-section with faux-braid detailing; two penannular sheet bronze with butted ends; one openwork cast. 33 grams total, 17-29mm (3/4 - 1 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Mainly fine condition. [10, No Reserve]
19th-early 20th century AD. A bulbous bronze jar with discoid base, stepped shoulder and tubular neck, reserved foliage bands on a hatched field, median frieze of standing figures and birds among flowers. 214 grams, 11cm (4 1/4"). Ex Stefany Tomalin collection; acquired on the UK art market. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
19th-early 20th century AD. A bronze votive or funerary dagger with tapering blade, quillons, ribbed grip and knop pommel; the blade with low-relief running scrolls, thick midrib, scooped shoulders and lateral horns. 760 grams, 38.5cm (15 1/4"). From an old German collection; acquired before 1990. Fine condition.
Published 1979-2004 AD. Titles comprising: Kent, J. P. C., The Pattern of Bronze Coinage under Constantine I, Doris Stockwell Memorial Papers 3 (from NC 6th series, XVII, 1957), Pardy, Ringwood, undated; paperback, publisher's blue card. MacDowall, David W., The Western Coinages of Nero, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 161, ANS, New York, 1979; paperback, publisher's beige card. Sear, David, R., Roman Coins and Their Values, Seaby, London, 1974, second revised edition; hardback, publisher's blue cloth. Reece, Richard, Coinage in Roman Britain, Seaby, London, 1987; hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. Hampartumian, Nubar and Taylor, Eric, Exhibition of the Coinage of the Twelve Caesars in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 1993; paperback, publisher's pictorial card. Sayles, Wayne, G., Ancient Coin Collecting, Krause, USA, 1996; hardback, publisher's green buckram with dustwrapper. Reece, Richard and James, Simon, Identifying Roman Coins, Spink, London, 1986; hardback, publisher's pictorial boards. Sear, David R., Roman Coins and Their Values, volume 2 (Nerva to Severan Dynasty), Spink, London 2002; hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. Seaby, H. A., Roman Silver Coins, volume I (Republic to Augustus), Seaby, London, 2004 (reprint); hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. 4.24 kg total, largest 24 x 16cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/4"). Ex libris Lord Stewartby (Ian Stewart). Generally fine condition. [9, No Reserve]
6th-9th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: the bow, footplate and finial of a cruciform brooch with horseshoe stamps; a caterpillar ansate brooch; a Carolingian type ansate brooch with flared ends; a wrist clasp; a plaque with pelleted geometric design; a pair of tweezers. 58 grams total, 21-62mm (3/4 - 2 1/2"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Fair-fine condition. [6, No Reserve]
9th-12th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: an omega brooch with raised pellets, coiled pin; a penannular brooch with conical finials; a ribbed pendant with two lozengiform dangles; a ribbed tubular bead with three trapezoidal dangles; a linked pair of triangular spangles. 40 grams total, 30-52mm (1 1/4 - 2"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Mainly fine condition. [5, No Reserve]
20th century AD. A hand-forged single-edged knife with bronze bolster and cap, antler grip by Rod Matless; the blade not sharpened; with a custom-made saddle-stitched sheath. 350 grams total, 13.5cm (5 1/4"). Property of a Kent, UK collector; acquired UK market, 1970-2000. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
20th century AD. A pair of bronze mortars comprising: one with ring handles in beast-heads, two high-relief faces of Oceanus(?) on a textured field; one bell-shaped with naive florid ornament, legend 'Richard Startyn 1623'. 2.1 kg total, 12.5-15.5cm (4 - 6"). Property of a Gloucestershire gentleman; inherited from his grandfather. Fine condition. [2, No Reserve]
7th-8th century AD. A bronze steelyard with pierced lobe finial, loop to the underside with integral adjacent bulb, tapering shank with transverse notches to the underside and interstitial lateral nicks; two 8-shaped links; dished pan with three equidistant holes. 38 grams total, shank: 13.5cm (5 1/2"). Property of a Hertfordshire, UK, collector; acquired London art market, 1960s-1980s. Fine condition. [2]
An undated archaistic bronze spoon with broad discoid bowl and chamfered rim, round-section slightly curved handle with ribbed collars, beast-head at the junction with bowl, loop to the other end with beast-head finial. 47 grams, 16cm (6 1/4"). Property of a North London collector; acquired in the 1970s. Fine condition.
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A squat terracotta bowl with basal ring, slightly flared rim, painted frieze to the outer face of a lion and bull with foliage. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994. 303 grams, 13cm (5"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. Fair condition. [No Reserve]
1st-3rd century AD. A mixed group of bronze items comprising: two round phalera with central raised boss; hollow finger fragment; decorated ear spoon; four bow brooches, one iron, one missing pin. 332 grams total, 4-13cm (1 1/2 - 5"). Property of a German gentleman; acquired before 1989. Fine condition. [No Reserve, 8]
20th century AD. A mixed group of bronze jewellery items comprising: a hinged bracelet with segmented outer face, radiating beaded strips; a hinged bracelet with openwork panels; two domed pendants with inset glass studs, chains and dangles to the lower edge; a triangular pendant with glass panels, chains and dangles; a rectangular pendant with glass cabochons, chains and dangles. 713 grams total, 10.5-11.5cm (10-10 1/4"). From an important London collection, acquired in the 1990s. Fine condition. [6, No Reserve]
A mixed group of undated archaistic bronze items comprising: a Bastet pendant with suspension lug to the shoulders; a plaque with profile bust to the lower section, facing ram's head surmounted by a solar disc, hollow to the reverse. 509 grams, 6-14cm (2 1/2 - 5 1/2"). Property of a Norwich, UK, collector; acquired 1960s. Fine condition. [2, No Reserve]
3rd-19th century AD. A mixed group of bronze mounts comprising: one crescentic with ball finials; one rectangular, ribbed with openwork pelta; two openwork rosettes; one domed hexagonal; one domed, slider mount; two rosettes with spike to the reverse; one zoomorphic with pierced lugs; one elliptical, domed; one discoid with central boss, spike to reverse; two piriform, domed with strap to the reverse; one conical with stud. 185 grams total, 16-70mm (1/2 - 2 3/4"). Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Fair condition. [14, No Reserve]
2nd-4th century AD. A mixed group of bronze keys comprising: one with flat-section bow pierced below the upper edge, rectangular shank with angled bit and wards; one similar with knop to the bow; barrel-shaped ring with short bit and wards. 53 grams total, 30-63mm (1 1/4 - 2 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the London art market. Fine condition. [3]
20th century AD. A mixed group of gilt-bronze rings comprising: one with banded agate cabochon; one with glass cloison, intaglio eagle motif; one with hexagonal bezel intaglio winged horse motif; one with carnelian insert, advancing lion(?) motif; two with inset cabochon, perched eagle motif; two with integral bezel scrolled tendrils motif. 56 grams total, 24-31mm (1 - 1 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Fine condition. [8, No Reserve]
Han Dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD. A bronze discoid mirror with one polished face, central pierced animal-mask lug with frieze of Buddha figures and carriages in a landscape, scrolled foliage to the border. 701 grams, 17.5cm (6 3/4"). Private collection, North London; acquired in the early 1980s. Fine condition.
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A terracotta biconical jar with bands of polychrome geometric ornament to the shoulder. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994, for general information, and illustration 104 for similar form and style. 643 grams, 17cm (6 3/4"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
2nd-4th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a flat-section shank with faceted bow and incised geometric pattern, square-section with angled bit, wards to the leading edge; one similar, waisted bow; a D-section ring with thick shank. 56 grams total, 39-78mm (1 1/2 - 3 1/4"). Property of an Essex gentleman; acquired on the UK art market. Fine condition. [3, No Reserve]
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A ceramic cup with slightly everted rim, frieze of polychrome gryphons to the sidewall. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994. 127 grams, 10cm (4"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
6th-9th century AD. A flat-section bronze cruciform pendant with flared arms, ring-and-dot decoration to one face; suspension ring to one arm with bronze link and two more links each in a hole to the lower edge of the arm. 55 grams, 92mm (3 3/4"). Property of an Essex, UK collector; acquired London art market, 1960s-1980s. Fair condition, lower arm absent. [No Reserve]
10th-12th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a tinned bronze(?) pendant cross with D-shaped finials, pellet detailing; a bronze square seal matrix with Kufic inscription. 7.42 grams, 15-32mm (1/2 - 1 1/4"). Property of a Leeds, UK collector; acquired by inheritance. Fine condition; loop of seal absent. [2, No Reserve]
Published 1951-2004 AD. Titles comprising: Askew, Gilbert, The Coinage of Roman Britain, Seaby, London, 1951; hardback, publisher's brown cloth with dustwrapper, with bookplate of Mark Blackburn. Kent, J. P. C., The Pattern of Bronze Coinage under Constantine I, Doris Stockwell Memorial Papers 3 (from NC 6th series, XVII, 1957), Pardy, Ringwood, undated; paperback, publisher's blue card. Sydenham, E. A., Historical References to Coins of the Roman Empire, Spink, London/Pegasus, San Diego, 1968; hardback, publisher's red cloth, with a bookplate in the name of Ferrett. MacDowall, David W., The Western Coinages of Nero, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 161, ANS, New York, 1979; paperback, publisher's beige card. Reece, Richard and James, Simon, Identifying Roman Coins, Seaby, London, 1986; hardback, publisher's pictorial boards. Jones, John Melville, A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins, Seaby, London, 1990; hardback, publisher's red cloth with dustwrapper. Kreitzer, Larry J., Striking New Images - Roman Imperial Coinage and the New Testament World, Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 134, Sheffield Academic Press, 1996; hardback, publisher's blue cloth with dustwrapper. Burnett, Andrew, Coinage in the Roman World, Spink, London, 2004; paperback, publisher's pictorial card. Bech, Dr. Konrad, Gegenstempel auf Reichs- und Provinzialpragungen der Romischen Kaiserzeit, SNGS 45, Mainz; paperback, publisher's pictorial card. With a work in Hebrew on the subject of Roman and local coinages of Judea, published 1962; paperback, publisher's pictorial card. 3.89 kg total, largest 25 x 16cm (10 x 6 1/4"). Ex libris Lord Stewartby (Ian Stewart). Good to fine condition. [10, No Reserve]
An undated archaistic object in 3rd-2nd millennium BC style, with tapering bronze shank with circumferential bands, finial of a female(?) head with slicked hair, lentoid eyes, discoid plaque above. Cf. Aruz, J. Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, item 38 for similar facial treatment. 148 grams, 15cm (6"). Property of an Austrian collector; acquired in the 1970s. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
19th-20th century AD. Group comprising: Victoria, bronze issue 1882 halfpenny with 'SUFFRAGE' stamped to reverse, pierced and linked to Victoria, bronze issue 1874 penny with 'july 4th 1896' engraved in two lines to reverse; Victoria, bronze issue 1888 penny with SUFFRAGE' stamped to reverse, pierced with suspension ring (probably onced linked to previous two) and smoothed bronze issue penny with 'VOTE THE LAND FREE' stamped in four lines one side and '4TH MAY 1843' stamped in three lines to the other side. 32.13 grams total. The coin stamped with the date 4th May 1843 may relate to the proclamation of Natal, South Africa, as a British colony on that date; the British women's suffrage movement became seriously active from the late 19th century and with the founding of the Women's Social and Political Union by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903, with partial success being achieved in 1918. Coins fair, marks clear. [4, No Reserve]
12th-15th century AD. A mixed bronze group comprising: a harness pendant formed as a sphere with ropework band to the equator, pierced polyhedral knop below, free-running knop above, suspension loop with stylised beast-head finials; a casket key with trefoil bow; a finger ring with discoid bezel, intaglio bird motif; strap end with balustered shank, D-shaped pierced plaques. 50 grams total, 23-49mm (1-2"). Property of an East Anglia gentleman; acquired on the London art market. Fine to fair condition. [4, No Reserve]
3rd-2nd millenium BC. A mixed ceramic group comprising: a squat jar with fish to the shoulder; a squat jar with frieze of lion and ibex; a flared cup with polychrome panels; a jar with waisted sidewall, interlocking geometric design. See Satyawadi, S. Proto-Historic Pottery of Indus Valley Civilisation: Study of Painted Motifs, Perspectives in Indian Art and Archaeology, vol.2, New Delhi, 1994. 645 grams total, 9.5-11.5cm (3 3/4 - 4 1/2"). From an important London collection of Bronze Age pottery; formed 1970s-1980. Fine condition. [4, No Reserve]
8th-9th century AD. A bronze enkolpion or hollow-formed reliquary cross pendant with incised quatrefoil motif to each broad face, pecked texturing; to the obverse five round recesses to accept inset gemstones or portraits; to the reverse, quatrefoild motif with incised text '??4?+' (Jo[h]an, John?). Cf. Khanenko, B. Antiquités Russes Croix et Images, Kiev, 1899, items 44-5. 64 grams total, 90mm (3 1/2"). Property of a Hertfordshire, UK collector; acquired London art market, 1960s-1980s. Fine condition, hinge damaged, three recesses voided.
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