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Lot 353
19th Century jewellery box containing assorted items to include: small silver photograph frame; various jet type dress jewellery; beads; stamp case; gilt metal lady bottle opener; Mauchline ware, Pennard; nutmeg or other grinder holder; small silver stamp envelope holder in associated leather pouch etc.
Lot 1604
14th century AD. A silver ring brooch with D-section pin, inscribed in Lombardic lettering '+AVEMARIAGRACIA' (Hail Mary [full] of grace). Cf. Egan, G. & Pritchard, F. Dress Accessories 1150-1450, London, 2002, item 1308 for type. 1.72 grams, 21mm (3/4"). Property of a Kent collector; by inheritance, 1970s. [No Reserve] Very fine condition.
Lot 1647
20th century AD. A dress sword with 'maidenhair' damascened blade with gilt panels at base inscribed EISENHAUER DAMASSTAHL to side and MOHR & SPEYER, BERLIN to back edge; the gilt hilt with crossed lances to languet, lion head terminal and grip (lacking wire binding); with polished steel scabbard and gilt suspension rings. See Wittman, Thomas, Collecting the Edged Weapons of Imperial Germany, volume 1, p.204. 980 grams, 98cm long (38 1/2"). From an old Munich collection; acquired on the German art market before 2000. Fine condition; small dent to scabbard.
Lot 2351
350 AD. Siscia mint. Obv: DN CONSTAN-TIVS PF AVG legend with pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right; A behind head. Rev: HOC SIG-NO VICTOR ERIS legend with Emperor, diademed and in military dress, standing facing, looking left, holding standard with chi-rho on banner and transverse spear; to the right stands Victory, crowning him with a wreath and holding a palm branch and III in left field; mintmark BSIS-crescent in exergue. RIC VIII Siscia 304; Sear 18204. 6.07 grams. [No Reserve] Extremely fine.
Lot 247
1st-3rd century AD. A bronze statuette of Telesphorus dressed in a long hooded cape covering everything apart face, hands slightly stretched forwards; incised cross-like decoration to the front. Cf. Durham, E. Metal Figurines in Roman Britain: Volume 2, University of Reading, 2010, plate 56-57. 30.35 grams, 42mm (1 1/2"). Property of a European collector; acquired Europe, 1980s-1990s. Telesphorus was a son of Asclepius, god associated with healing and medicine, whose name means the accomplisher or bringer of completion. He symbolised recovery from illness and was depicted as a dwarf whose head was always covered with a cowl hood or cap, frequently accompanied by his sister Hygieia. Telesphorus is assumed to have been a Celtic god in origin, who was taken to Anatolia by the Galatians in the 3rd century BC, where he would have become associated with the Asclepius and spread again to the West due to the rise of the Roman Empire, in particular during the 2nd century AD. The statue of Telesphorus excavated in Moulézan bears very similar incised decoration and dress style; however other statuettes of hooded figures, in general called genius cucullati, were found in regions across the Romano-Celtic region varying in style and size. Very fine condition.
Lot 391
2nd-4th century AD. A mixed group of military dress items comprising: a silver ring with D-section hoop, flat plaque with 'VTF' inscription (for utere felix 'use this with good luck'); a rectangular belt mount with chamfered sides, trefoil finials, median red enamel inset; a rectangular belt mount with crescentic finials, enamelled chequerboard panels. 40 grams total, 24-75mm (1 - 3"). From an old Hampshire collection. [3, No Reserve] Fair condition.
Lot 536
8th-9th century AD. A gold ring with plain shank with round bezel with open cells around the edge; in the centre gold wire cells filled with white and green cloisonné enamel forming the head of a hound. For a similar ring, but depicting a bird, found at Wincheap, near Canterbury, Kent, see The British Museum, accession number 1951,0205.1 3 grams, 20.44mm overall, 19.23mm internal diameter, (approximate ring size, British S 1/4, USA 9 1/4, Europe 60 1/4, Japan 19). (3/4"). With Maurice Braham, 1990s; formerly the property of Miss Davies, by gift from Dowager Viscountess Rosamund Hanworth (1918-2014). Supplied with a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Champlevé enamel, which is in cast or engraved fields, is found in Saxon metalwork from the fifth century onwards; the earliest example is on a sword pommel, but it was relatively uncommon. The technique may have been brought in from Scandinavia or learnt from the British. Largely confined to eastern England, enamel was used in small amounts in the sixth century, mainly on dress fasteners. In the ninth century, red enamel appeared occasionally on strap ends and dress hooks, while polychrome enamelled brooches were imported from the Rhineland. Fine cloisonné enamels (with cell walls made of gold strip, back-plates and a variety of glass colours) were manufactured by the late ninth century to decorate finger rings and elaborate mounts, including the *Alfred Jewel; this technical development may reflect influence from Germany and Lotharingia. The glasses are predominantly opaque white, blue, green, yellow and red with some translucent green. A related series of Anglo-Saxon gilt bronze disc-brooches with polychrome cloisonné enamels in a central roundel has been found in England and Denmark. These show a variety of floral and other patterns and date to the tenth and eleventh centuries.The ring is made using a technique the same as the famous Alfred Jewel now in the Ashmolean Museum. The majority of the few known gold and enamel rings tend to show a cross or floral pattern, whilst animal representations are very rare. Very fine condition.
Lot 680
Mainly 2nd millennium BC. A mixed group of bronze items comprising: a discoid plaque with central stud, concentric bands of incised geometric detail, pierced lug to the reverse; a dress pin with tapering shank, ribbed upper section, knop finial; a round-section bangle with balustered exterior; a conical spear or staff ferrule with running spiral band and herringbone slashes to the point, pierced in two places. 213 grams total, 7.5-15cm (3 - 6"). From an old German collection; acquired in Munich in the 1970s. [4] Fine condition.
Lot 749
16th century AD. A silver-gilt clothes fastener formed as a trilobe plaque with notched border and three hemispherical domes decorated with filigree and granule detailing, central rosette plaque with securing stud spread to the reverse, substantial round-section hook, flat-section staple with stamped maker's mark 'T' with fishtail stave. Cf. Gaimster, D., Hayward, M., Mitchell, D. and Parker, K. Tudor Silver-Gilt Dress-Hooks: A New Class of Treasure Find in England, in Antiquaries Journal, vol.82, 2002, item 5. 4.13 grams, 26mm (1"). Property of a Kent collector; by inheritance, 1970s. [No Reserve] Extremely fine condition.
Lot 829
7th-9th century AD. A Hiberno-Norse dress pin comprising a slender, tapering shaft and a scrolled head; a silver ring held within the scroll. Cf. The scroll-headed pin from Pakenham in West. S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, p.237 fig.8. 1.63 grams, 55mm (2 1/4"). From the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green. Very fine condition.
Lot 227
18th Century British School A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG NOBLEWOMAN WEARING A BLUE DRESS AND PEARLS IN HER HAIR; WITH FAMILY ARMORIAL UPPER LEFT signed or inscribed 'Margaret Ward and dated 1737' oil on canvas 74 x 62cms; 29 x 24 1/4in. An un-dated letter attached to the rear of the frame attributes this picture to Thomas Bardwell (d.1780).
Lot 237
A Follower of Sir Francis Cotes (1726-1770) A PORTRAIT OF A LADY WEARING A LOW-CUT BLUE DRESS AND BROWN SHAWL with inscriptions on labels verso oil on canvas 65 x 55cms; 25 1/2 x 21 3/4in. PROVENANCE Ex collection of Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, originally gifted by J. Harold Pettus 1965.
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