Spanish School 17th Century Portrait of a lady, thought to be Queen Christina of Sweden, bust-length wearing a diamond and ruby crown, pearl drop earrings, a necklace and brooch over a white lace collar oil on panel 20 x 14cm. Footnote: Christina (1629-1689), later known as Christina Alexandra, and sometimes Countess Dohna, Queen Regnant of Sweden (1632-1654). The only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his wife Maria Eleonara of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive at the age of six she succeeded her father on the throne of Sweden upon his death at the battle of Zutzen in The Thirty Years War. After converting to Catholicism and abdicating her throne, she spent her later years in France and Rome. She is buried in St Peter’s Basilica.
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A late Victorian ebonised and gilt inlaid architectural cabinet bookcase, bordered with gilt lines and decorated with stylised husks and scrolling foliage, the angled arch pediment of broken outline with urn and foliate scroll finials and a moulded cornice and fluted and flowerhead decorated frieze, fitted with adjustable shelves, enclosed by a central full length door with circular medallion depicting the profile bust of a Classical soldier, flanked either side by a full length door, between turned and fluted column uprights with Corinthian capitals, on a narrow plinth base, 193cm (6ft 4in) long x 241cm (7ft 11in) high. * Provenance Oldway Mansion, Paignton.
Richard Cockle Lucas - a wax bust portrait relief of Christian Charles Josias Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Ambassador to the Court of St. James, in profile to sinister, on an oval brown wax ground, incised signature and date 1851 and inscribed `Chevalier Bunsen`, height approx 17cm, within a gilt composition frame.
A PAIR OF LATE 18TH CENTURY NORTH ITALIAN COMMODES with marquetry decoration in the manner of Maggiolini, each veneered with assorted exotic woods crossbanded and worked in panels and borders with songbirds, butterflies, moths, wild strawberries, bearded male bust profiles and scrolling foliage, each fitted with 3 long drawers on square tapering supports, 92cms x 129.5cms x 59.5cms deep
European School c.1900- Portrait of a young woman, bust-length waering a white shawl and necklace and holding a sprig of flowers, feigned tondo, held in a gilt swept frame, 65x65cm: Vieusseax, act.1907- Portrait of a Gentleman, seated three-quarter length, wearing a dark coat; gouache/opaque colour with gum arabic on board, signed and dated, 114x81cm, (2)
Unit, Rochester Pegasus type, bust right with hair swept back beneath corded diadem, sunburst and small saltire in front, rev. Pegasus right, dvb above, cross-hatched box and annulet below, 1.16g/3h (BMC –; VA –; S –). Obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare; six specimens known Provenance: Found at Springhead (Kent); C. Rudd FPL 77, September 2004 (18). CCI 04.1181. Several of the known specimens are off-centre, resulting in the assumption until recently that the coin was uninscribed. Only since 2004 have the letters on the reverse been correctly noted and the attribution to Dubnovellaunus made
Unit, Whaddon Bird type, bust left with coiled hair, small horse in front, rev. horse right, bird above, V and annulet in front, pellet in beaded ring below, 1.10g/8h (BMC 377-9; VA 1546; S 50). Well-centred, good very fine and toned, extremely rare; one of the best of approximately 12 known specimens Provenance: Found at Eaton Bray (Bedfordshire); C. Rudd FPL 77, September 2004 (44). CCI 04.1187
Unit, bearded bust left, A behind, all within interlaced border, rev. Pegasus left, and below, 1.20g/12h (BMC 2018; VA 1868; S 264). Good very fine, extremely rare; about 12 specimens in private hands Provenance: Found at Fordham (Cambridgeshire) September 2000; C. Rudd FPL 66, November 2002 (70); DNW Auction 61, 17 March 2004, lot 482. CCI 00.1551
![Unit, Roman-style female bust right with hair tied in a bun, tasc[iiovantii] around, rev. female lyre-player seated right, tr](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/15299/2777324/5151_468x382.jpg)
Unit, Roman-style female bust right with hair tied in a bun, tasc[iiovantii] around, rev. female lyre-player seated right, tree behind, cvnobe[li] around, 1.19g/4h (BMC 1879; VA 2059; S 314). About very fine, dark tone, very rare Provenance: Found near Corby (Northamptonshire) 1993; C. Rudd FPL 11, May 1994 (54); C. Baddeley Collection; C. Rudd FPL 40, February 1999 (33); Prof P. Crossley-Holland Collection; C. Rudd FPL 76, July 2004 (58). CCI 94.0707
Unit, youthful bust left, bodvoc in front, rev. horse right, pellet-in-annulet, cross and crescents above, rosette below, 0.99g/2h (BMC 3143-5; VA 1057; S 389). Surfaces slightly porous, very fine and very rare Provenance: Found on a Romano-British site at Evenley (Northamptonshire) 1993; Italo Vecchi Auction 14, 5 February 1999, lot 113; M. Rich Collection; C. Rudd FPL 76, July 2004 (46). CCI 96.1006
Unit, laureate bust right, tincom in front, b behind, rev. eagle standing on snake, 1.28g/9h (BMC 880-905; VA 397; S 83). Obverse surface a little porous, otherwise nearly very fine, very rare with letter behind head Provenance: Found near Winchester (Hampshire) 1994; B. Bettison Collection; C. Rudd FPL 87, May 2006 (25). CCI 06.0157
Unit, tasc in panel, rev. mounted warrior with lance and shield left, 1.13g/4h (BMC 1677-9; VA 1800; S 238); Cunobelin, Unit, bust right, cvno in front, rev. sphinx seated left, 1.13g/10h (BMC 1874-8; VA 2057; S 313) [2]. Fine Provenance: First J. Scaife Collection, C. Rudd LL20, December 2005 (43), CCI 05.0725; second found at Orsett (Essex) 2001, C. Rudd LL3, February 2003 (59), CCI 02.1141
![Unit, youthful bust left, [bodvoc] in front, x behind, rev. horse right, pellet-in-annulet, cross and crescents above, rosett](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/15299/2777324/5206_468x382.jpg)
Argenteus, uncertain British mint, IMP CARAVSIVS AV, laureate and draped bust right, rev. FORTVNA AVG, Fortuna standing left, holding cornucopiæ and rudder over globe, 2.91g/6h (cf. Webb 619; RIC –; Casey –; Shiel –; Williams –; RSC –; Hunter –). Very fine; apparently unpublished
Æ 3 (’Half-Centenionalis’), Trier, 348, pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, rev. fel temp reparatio TRP, phoenix, radiate, standing right on mound of rocks, 2.96g/6h (RIC 226). Extremely fine, good green patina, very rare The phoenix on the reverse of this issue represents renewal and rebirth in the anno Urbis conditæ 1100, which corresponds to AD 348
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