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Lot 7
Pair of Royal Worcester peach ground tusk shaped jugs with floral decoration and stylised horn handles. Printed marks with shape no. 1116. 16.5cm approx. Together with another ivory coloured horn shaped Royal Worcester jug with scenic painted decoration and loop handle, printed marks with registration no. 74149 and shape no. 1229, 17.5cm approx. (3)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: All a little grubby but showing no obvious damage.
Lot 193
Vespasian. Gold Aureus (7.23 g), AD 69-79. Judaea Capta type. Lugdunum, AD 71. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG TR P, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. TRIVMP AVG in exergue, emperor on triumphal quadriga right, holding palm and eagle-tipped scepter, being crowned by Victory standing behind him and accompanied by trumpeter; before horses, soldier escorting captive. Hendin 1475; RIC 1127; BN 17; BMC 397; Calicó 689. An important Jewish rarity. Very Fine. From the S. Moussaieff Collection. We sold a similar (but slightly inferior example in Goldberg 41 (27 May 2007), lot 2786) and again in Goldberg 90, lot 3044 which realized $78,000. This lot has been officially exported from Israel through the Israel Antiquities Authority. Simon bar Giora AureusThis very rare 'Judaea Capta' - themed aureus, minted to commemorate the recently concluded Jewish War, is most notable for its reverse type. The exergual inscription simply reads: TRIVMP AVG (Triumph of Augustus [Vespasian]). Depicted with particular clarity is the imperial quadriga in the way it would have appeared in the triumphal procession, preceded by a soldier who looks back at the emperor, while escorting a captive with hands bound behind. Robert Deutsch (BAR Jan/Feb 2010, 51-53) identifies the captive as the most important leader of Jerusalem in the Jewish War, Simon bar Giora.The triumph celebrated by Vespasian and Titus in 71 A.D. was a magnificent showcase of the abundance gleaned from the victory over the destroyed province. Booty taken back to Rome after the war was prodigious. When the Romans entered the Temple court, "so glutted with plunder were the troops, one and all, that throughout Syria the standard of gold was depreciated to half its former value" (Josephus, de Bello Judaico, 6.316-322).The triumph itself was described in vivid detail by Josephus, who was an eye-witness to the event (de Bello Judaico, 7.24): "…as dawn was breaking [Titus and Vespasian] emerged, crowned with laurel wreaths and wearing the time-honored purple clothes…. It is impossible to do justice in the description of the number of things to be seen and the magnificence of everything… For almost all the remarkable and valuable objects which have ever been collected … were on that day massed together, affording a clear demonstration of the might of the Roman Empire. The quantities of silver, gold and ivory, worked into every conceivable form, were not like those usually carried in a triumph, but resembled, as it were, a running river of wealth… The greatest amazement was by the floats… For many were three or four stories high… Standing on his individual float was the commander of each of the captured cities showing the way he had been taken prisoner… Spoil in abundance was carried past. None of it compared with that taken from the Temple in Jerusalem, a golden table [the showbread table], and a golden lamp stand [the menorah]… The Law [Torah; The Five Books of Moses] was carried last of all the spoil.The procession culminated at the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus… where they still had to wait for the traditional moment when the news was brought of the death of the enemy leader. In this case he was Simon bar Giora, who had passed in procession with captives and had been dragged under the lash, with his head in a noose, to a spot near the Forum. That is the traditional place at Rome for the execution of those condemned to death for war crimes. When his end was announced and a general cheer had arisen, they started the sacrifices…."
Lot 192
Vespasian. Gold Aureus (6.98 g), AD 69-79. Judaea Capta type. Lugdunum, AD 72. MP CAES VESPAS AVG P M TR P IIII P P COS IIII, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. DE IVDAEIS, trophy. Cf. Hendin 1472; RIC 1179; BN 305; BMC 402; Calicó 627c. Very Rare. Fine. From the S. Moussaieff Collection, This lot has been officially exported from Israel through the Israel Antiquities Authority. This gold aureus belongs to the vast coin series struck to celebrate the victory of Vespasian (and his son Titus) in the First Jewish Revolt, a bloody conflict that rocked the eastern territories of the Roman Empire between AD 66 and 73. Although the last pocket of Jewish rebels was only defeated at the desert fortress of Masada in AD 73, the major fighting was over and Titus had captured the Judaean capital at Jerusalem in AD 70. The Holy City was besieged for seven terrible months, during which the defenders were decimated by starvation, disease, and factional conflict among the rebel leadership. At last, Roman forces stormed Jerusalem, slaughtering and enslaving the defenders and plundering the sacred wealth of the Second Temple. Slaves and treasure were carried off to Rome by Titus in AD 71 to adorn the great triumph that he was to celebrate along with his father. This procession, in which a variety of Temple instruments, including a menorah, were carried before the Roman people is immortalized in a famous frieze from the Arch of Titus in Rome. The trophy type on the reverse of the present coin, with the simple statement, DE IVDAEIS ("From the Judaeans") serves as shorthand for the vast booty that was taken from Jerusalem and especially from the Temple. The historian Josephus reports that the quantities of gold, ivory, jewelry, and purple cloth in Vespasian's triumph that the procession resembled "a running river of wealth." The emperor subsequently tapped this river to cover the expenses of a grand new project to reshape Rome itself. He ordered an artificial lake belonging to the palace complex of the dead and disgraced Nero to be drained and used as the foundation for an enormous amphitheater. This amphitheater was to be used for the display of the gladiator shows and wild beast hunts that were such popular entertainments for the Roman public. It was officially described as the Flavian Amphitheater, but came to be known as the Colosseum after its location near a colossal statue of Nero in the guise of the sun god. This aureus and other gold coins produced in the context of Vespasian's triumph very well may have been struck from the gold objects carried off from conquered Judaea. And some were struck in order to pay for the construction of the Colosseum, which in its own somewhat sinister way was also DE IVDAEIS.
Lot 102
English School, 19th Century, miniature portrait of a military officer, wearing a red jacket with white starred epaulettes, on ivory, apparently unsigned, oval visible 9.5x7cm, another miniature military portrait, a miniature portrait of Lord Nelson, a mother of a lady and another of a boy, (5).
Lot 139
TWO CASED 1897 VICTORIA JUBILEE MEDALS, together with another similar Edward VI, all diameter 5.5cm, a 2002 £5 coin, a late 19th Century ivory card case, carved decoration, the cover with splits, 11.3cm x 7.2cm, a small quantity of cutlery and flatware, late 19th Century Continental porcelain figural basket, s.d
Lot 122
FOUR SMALL BOXES OF MAINLY COSTUME JEWELLERY to include a malachite necklace, imitation pearl necklaces, paste costume jewellery, an early 20th Century graduated ivory bead necklace, a carved rose quartz bead necklace, a faceted red plastic bead necklace, two sequin waist belts, a sequin skull cap etc
Lot 615
A German Forestry Service Assistant Forester’s dress cutlass, plated blade 13½ etched with scenes of stags and hunter in woodland setting, game dog etc, the gilt brass hilt with shell guard, hoof finials to knucklebow and quillon, and ivory effect celluloid grips with gilt acorns, in its gilt brass mounted leather sheath. GC, the blade VGC, the gilt good (slight scuffing to leather) Plate 9
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