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Lot 53

Africa.- Ethiopia.- Holland (Major Trevenen J.) & Captain Henry Hozier. Record of the Expedition to Abyssinia compiled by order of the Secretary of State for War, 3 vol. including portfolio, first edition, additional lithographed titles, 14 lithographs, 18 maps and plans, 1 folding table, 4 large folding maps housed in portfolio as issued, occasional faint spotting, vol. 2 with new endpapers, bookplate, vol. 1 with abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, original cloth, lightly sunned spines, faint abrasion marks to spines where small labels removed, printed paper labels to portfolio reading "Note. - This Volume is incomplete, no perfect copies are available for issue. H. M. Stationery Office.", a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities,vol. 2 with neat repairs to spine ends, [Shapero, Africana 183], 4to, 1870.⁂ The portfolio with this copy includes an additional map to the copy referenced by Shapero.

Lot 82

Africa.- Kammerer (M. Albert) La Mer Rouge L'Abyssinie et L'Arabie, 3 vol. bound in 7 as issued, vol. 3 part 1 inscribed and signed by author, vol. 3 part 3 inscribed and signed by author's wife, vol. 1 part 1 with 2 frontispieces, 469 plates and plans, many folding or colour, 1 with short marginal tear, illustrations, many full-page, vol. 2 part 2 with folding table bound upside down, vol. 1 part 1 with odd short marginal tear and expert tissue repairs, vol. 1 parts 1 & 2 with original wrappers bound-in, small chipping and loss to edges, neat tape repairs, ex-library with occasional discreet ink-stamps, bookplate, vol. 1 parts 1&2 and vol. 2 parts 1&2 in contemporary half-morocco, gilt, vol. 1 parts 1&2 rebacked retaining original backstrip, vol. 3 parts 1-3 in original cloth-backed printed boards, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, Cairo, 1929-52.⁂ A fine set of this important work, commissioned by King Fouad I of Egypt. It consists of vol. 15-17 of the Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte.

Lot 9

Africa.- Archaeology.- Kobishchanov (Yuri M.) Axum, first American edition, translated by Lorraine T. Kapitanoff, illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, fractional creasing to spine extremities, 8vo, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979.

Lot 98

Africa.- Nubia.- Wendorf (Fred) The Prehistory of Nubia, 2 vol. and atlas, first edition, folding plates, illustrations, bookplate, faint spotting, text vol. in original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, plate vol. loose as issued in original cardboard wrapper, Texas, Fort Burgwin Research Center and Southern Methodist University Press, 1968 § Adams (William Y.) Nubia: Corridor to Africa, first edition, plates and illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing and chipping to edges, 1977 § Crawford (O. G. S.) The Fung Kingdom of Sennar, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, small tears and chipping to edges, neat tape repairs to verso, Gloucester, 1951 § Russell (Rev. M.) Nubia and Abyssinia, third edition, folding map frontispiece, additional vignette title, plates, contemporary decorative morocco, gilt, g.e., slight rubbing to corners and extremities, Edinburgh, n.d. § Sidebotham (Steve) & Willemina Wendrich. Berenike ... Preliminary Report of the Excavations at Berenike ..., 6 vol., illustrations, folding maps loosely inserted, bookplate, all but the last in original printed wrappers, the last in original cloth, dust-jacket, Leiden & Los Angeles, 1995-2007; 4to & 8vo (12)

Lot 8002

Platinum three stone round brilliant cut diamond ring, with diamond set shoulders, hallmarked, total diamond weight approx 0.65 caratCondition Report:Approx 4.15gm, M-N, diamonds very good colour and bright, well presented ring

Lot 8010

18ct white gold three stone oval pink tourmaline and round brilliant cut diamond ring, hallmarked, tourmaline approx 2.60 caratCondition Report:Approx 3.75gm, size M

Lot 8018

18ct white gold three stone round brilliant cut diamond ring, hallmarked, total diamond weight approx 1.55 caratCondition Report:Approx 4.65gm, size M-N, diamonds bright with good movement, good condition

Lot 8019

Edwardian rose gold amethyst and seed pearl pendant, stamped 9ct and a 15ct gold ring, with bright cut decoration, makers mark J.G & S (possibly John Goffe & Son), Birmingham 1886Condition Report:Pendant approx 2.1gm, length = 50mm, ring approx 2.3gm, size M-N, to thinning to band in one area - still sound, max depth 5.2mm

Lot 8034

18ct gold illusion set single stone round brilliant cut diamond ring, stamped and a 9ct gold tassel pendant/charmCondition Report:18ct approx 2.05gm, size M, 9ct approx 3.15gm

Lot 8039

9ct gold single stone oval smokey quartz ring, hallmarkedCondition Report:Approx 5.15gm, size M, overall head = 22mm x 17mm

Lot 8043

18ct gold baguette and round brilliant cut diamond cluster ring, hallmarked, total diamond weight 0.75 caratCondition Report:Approx 5.5gm, size L-M, good condition

Lot 8045

18ct white gold oval ruby and two row round brilliant cut diamond cluster ring, total diamond weight approx 1.20 caratCondition Report:Approx 5.8gm, tested to 18ct gold, size M-N overall head size = 15mm x 14mm, bright well matched diamonds

Lot 8057

9ct gold oval peridot and diamond chip crossover ring and an 18ct gold illusion set diamond chip ringCondition Report:18ct gold approx 2.95gm, size M, hallmarked rubbed tested 18ct, 9ct approx 2.55gm, size N-O

Lot 8059

9ct gold sapphire and diamond chip cluster ring, hallmarked and a gold blue and clear paste stone set ringCondition Report:9ct approx 2.4gm, size L-M, other approx 2.4gm - tested to approx 19ct, size J-K, both good condition

Lot 8073

Gold pink sapphire and diamond cluster ring, with diamond set shoulders and a pink sapphire and diamond pendant necklace, all hallmarked 9ctCondition Report:Approx 5gm, ring size M-N, pendant length = 1.5cm, chain length = 46cm, good condition

Lot 8091

Gold sapphire and opal ring, amethyst and opal ring, cameo brooch, pair of hoop earrings, all 9ct and a silver-gilt blue stone set cluster ringCondition Report:9ct jewellery approx 9.9gm, sapphire and opal ring good, size M-N, , amethyst opal ring - stones cracked

Lot 8094

18ct gold emerald cut fancy yellow diamond and round brilliant cut diamond cluster ring, hallmarked , yellow diamond approx 1.00 caratCondition Report:Approx 4.3gm, size M, 12.5mm x 10.5mm, good condition

Lot 8098

9ct gold single stone rose cut diamond ring, 17ct gold Chinese panel, 15ct gold stick pin, 9ct gold mounted Royal Engineers brooch and one other 9ct gold broochCondition Report:9ct approx 7.15gm gross, ring size M, diamond approx 0.18 carat, back pins not gold, stick pin head 15ct pin 7ct approx 0.85gm, 17ct gold approx 1.15gm

Lot 8101

18ct white gold three stone oval ruby and round brilliant cut diamond ring, with diamond set shoulders and gallery, stamped 750, ruby 0.89 carat, total diamond weight approx 0.55 caratCondition Report:Approx 4.2gm, size M, diamonds very good colour, bright well matched, ruby good pinkish colour

Lot 8113

18ct gold three stone Ceylon sapphire and tapered baguette cut diamond ring, stamped 750, sapphire approx 1.85 caratCondition Report:Approx 3.65gm, size M-N

Lot 8120

9ct gold oval sapphire and diamond chip cluster ring, hallmarkedCondition Report:Approx 2.5gm, size L-M

Lot 8125

9ct gold round brilliant cut diamond cluster ring, with diamond set shoulders, hallmarked, total diamond weight 0.25 caratCondition Report:Approx 2.45gm, size L-M, max depth = 10mm, good condition

Lot 8131

9ct gold two stone round ruby crossover ring, hallmarkedCondition Report:Approx 2.25gm, size L-M,

Lot 8133

18ct gold pave set round diamond cross ring, stamped 750Condition Report:Approx 4.1gm, size M, max depth = 6.2mm, overall good condition

Lot 8152

18ct white gold three stone round brilliant cut diamond ring, stamped 18ct Plat, total diamond weight approx 0.65 caratCondition Report:Approx 2.4gm, size P, well presented diamonds bright with good movement, colour approx L-M, some lihgt inclusions under 10 x loop eye clean

Lot 8155

18ct gold single stone diamond ring, diamond approx 0.15 carat and one other 14ct gold illusion set diamond ring, both stampedCondition Report:18ct approx 2.65gm, size L, 14ct approx 2.45gm, size M, both good condition and both been tested

Lot 8161

18ct gold three stone round brilliant cut diamond ring, stamped 18ct Plat, total diamond weight approx 0.35 caratCondition Report:Approx 1.7gm, size M-N, diamonds bright well matched with some light inclusions under 10x loop

Lot 119

A Roman pale blue glass lamp-filler Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.The bird-shaped flask, pulled out on one side to form a tapering spout, the neck with everted in-folded rim, 8.5cm high Footnotes:Provenance:John-Platt Collection, New York.Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection (1923-2011), Greenwich, UK.Howard S. Rose Gallery, New York, Arte Primitivo, 14 October 2003, lot 318. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 156), acquired from the above sale.Exhibited: Museum Dordts Patriciërshuis, Dordrecht, NL, 'Glas Door de Eeuwen Heen', 11 April – 11 November 2018.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 132

A Roman pale green glass engraved flask Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.The blown spherical body with two engraved lines around the the neck and middle, and three large circles formed from concentric circles, with funnel mouth and cut-off rim, 14cm highFootnotes:Provenance:Hans Benzian Collection, Switzerland. The Benzian Collection of Ancient and Islamic Glass; Sotheby's, New York, 7 July 1994, lot 103.C.A. Hessing Collection, no.60.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 224 (unsold).The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 085), acquired from C.A. Hessing on the 3 May 1999.Published:M. Kunz, ed., 3000 Jahre Glaskunst: von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981, no.347.Zilverberg Spring 1999, no.106. Exhibited: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 'Dreitausend Jahre Glaskunst', 19 July – 13 September 1981.Museum Dordts Patriciërshuis, Dordrecht, NL, 'Glas Door de Eeuwen Heen', 11 April-11 November 2018.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 152

A Roman streaky aubergine glass jug Circa 4th Century A.D.With bell-shaped body and trefoil lip, a green trailed handle and an applied collar at the base of the cylindrical neck, 12.4cm high Footnotes:Provenance:C.A. Hessing Collection, coll. no.57. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 226 (unsold).The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 088), acquired from C.A. Hessing on the 3 May 1999.Published: Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, Glass: The Eighth Wonder of the Ancient World, London, 1994, p.14, no.75.Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg, Archaeology-Ancient Coins, Amsterdam, Spring 1999, no.108.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 157

A Roman pale blue-green glass ribbed beaker Western Empire, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.With slightly everted and thickened rim, the straight sides tapering towards the base, decorated with twelve applied diagonal ribs, 11.5cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Dutch private collection.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 260.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 079), acquired from the above sale.Published: Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg, Archaeology - Ancient Coins, Amsterdam, Autumn 1996, no.125. Exhibited: Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no.62.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 161

A Roman pale purple ribbed storage jar Circa 4th Century A.D.With flaring neck and collar rim, the spherical body with fourteen pinched vertical ribs, 11cm high Footnotes:Provenance:C.A. Hessing Collection, coll. no.66. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 227 (unsold). The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 089), acquired from C.A. Hessing on the 3 May 1999. Published:Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg, Archaeology-Ancient Coins, Amsterdam, Spring 1999, no.109.The hollow flange on the neck indicates the vessel was not used for drinking or pouring liquids, more probably for storage purposes, secured within a cloth covering.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 191

A Late Roman - early Byzantine green glass tall-necked bottle Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.The small ovoid body with tall cylindrical neck and cut-off rim, set on a pull and pincered double knopped base, a dark purple trailed vermicular coil around the base of the neck, a further band of dark purple glass applied in a band of zig-zag around the body, 27.3cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection. With Barakat Gallery, Los Angeles. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 12 December 2002, lot 353. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 143), acquired from the above sale.Published:The Barakat Gallery: A Catalogue of the Collection, Barakat Gallery, Los Angeles, 1985, no.GF60.This belongs to a small group of similar form, including one in the Corning Museum of Glass, and another in the collection of Lord Levy, see Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Ancient Glass from the Collection of Lord Michael Levy (London 2021), p.124, no.134.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 194

A Byzantine amber-brown glass hexagonal jug Late 6th - early 7th Century A.D.The body mould-blown with six decorative panels with motifs in sunken relief, including three with concentric lozenges, and three Christian motifs each with a cross, the cylindrical neck free-blown, the trefoil mouth with infolded rim, the handle pulled up from the shoulders and joined to the edge of the rim, 16cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Property from the Estate of Alexander White III, California, acquired between the 1960s and 1980. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 30 September 2015, lot 96. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 321), acquired from the above sale.This jug belongs to a group of mould-blown pilgrim vessels with Christian, Jewish or unassigned symbols believed to have been made in the vicinity of Jerusalem from the late 6th Century A.D. until shortly after the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in AD 614. Over seventy vessels are known to have been formed from nine different moulds with Christian motifs, and this jug belongs to Newby's Jerusalem Series, Christian Hexagonal 1, M. Newby, Byzantine Mould-Blown Glass from the Holy Land with Jewish or Christian Symbols. The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection, London, 2008, pp.74-7, 104-9, nos.17-19. This corresponds to D. Barag, 'Glass Pilgrim Vessels from Jerusalem', Pt.1, Journal of Glass Studies, 12, 1970, pp.35-63.Over thirty jugs are known of this mould, that range in height from 14-17cm, and of these, nineteen have a similar folded thumb-rest and they are all made in dark brown glass. Eight of these jugs are preserved in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Wadworth Atheneum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Eretz Museum, Tel Aviv.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 199

A Roman mosaic glass inlay Circa late 1st Century B.C. - 1st Century A.D.With a lily and palmette motif, a four-petalled rosette in opaque yellow-blue and red surrounded by yellow volutes, a yellow and red palmette in each corner, with yellow lilies blooming from the volutes in between, within in a translucent purple matrix, 29mm x 25mm Footnotes:Provenance:Private Collection, N.M., London, acquired in the 1980s.David G. Giles (1940-2022) Collection, London.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 328), acquired from the above on the 7 July 2016.For similar inlays see E.M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 50, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, nos.134-136. For a similar design with an opaque white background in The Corning Museum of Glass see Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), pp.223-4, no.647 (illustration wrongly labelled 648).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 229

An Egyptian green glazed faience amulet of a vervet monkey Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-735 B.C.Depicted standing supported by its long tail, the fur incised, attachment loop at the back, 3.9cm high Footnotes:Provenance:Collection de Monsieur M.; Etude Tajan, Paris, 26 February 1996, lot 101.Private collection, London, acquired from the above sale.Cf. C. Andrews, Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, p.66, fig.71c; the vervet monkey was a symbol of love and sexual fulfilment.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 58

A Greek bronze and terracotta diadem Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.The diadem formed from bronze with gilding remaining on the bronze ivy leaves, interspersed with white gesso-painted terracotta berries attached with fine bronze strands, 24cm longFootnotes:Provenance: Private collection, Germany.With Royal-Athena Galleries, New York. Ian Colverson (1940-2022) Collection, UK, acquired from the above on the 4 May 2009.Ian Colverson was a Postwar & Contemporary printmaker whose works are held in many museums and galleries worldwide, including the Tate Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.There is a wreath with clay berries and gilt ivy leaves in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, cf. M. Constock and C. Vermeule Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1972, pp.199-200.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lot 59

An Etruscan gold and carnelian scarab swivel ring Circa 4th Century B.C.The scarab modelled naturalistically, carved on the underside in the globolo style with a goat, set in a gold mount and pierced by a gold wire wound around the top of each end of the shank, intaglio 10mm, ring size G 1/2, 2.6gFootnotes:Provenance:With Mansour Gallery, London. Private collection, Hong Kong, acquired from the above on 14 October 2003.For another Etruscan scarab with a globolo drilled goat see J. Boardman and M.-L. Vollenweider, Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Finger Rings in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. I Greek and Etruscan, Oxford, 1978, p.65, no 276, pl.XLII.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 84

An Achaemenid colourless cast glass shallow bowl Western Asiatic, probably Persia, late 4th Century B.C.The thick cast bowl with a wheel-cut groove on the interior below the flaring rim, decorated on the exterior with twenty-one petals, each with a medial rib, emanating from a circle around the middle of the dish, the base with slight indentation, 12.2cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:With Joseph Uzan, Paris. SVV Enchères Rive Gauche, Paris, Sale 194, , 19-20 November 2012, lot 318.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 280), acquired from the above sale.The form of this vessel comes from metal and especially silver prototypes, while the fine colourless glass was made in imitation of rock crystal. Both similar glass examples in The Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art are larger, at 17.5 cm and 17.3cm in diameter respectively. The former has an omphalos in the centre of the base, is earlier, circa 450-400 BC, with the indentation on the underside of the base affording a better grip of the drinking bowl. The glass bowl in Toledo, which is dated to the late 4th Century B.C., also has similar wheel-cut elongated petals with rounded ends. See Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), p.118, no.248. For another example, with more flaring rim, dated to the 4th Century B.C., cf, David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass. The Toledo Museum of Art (New York, 1989), p.87, nos.34a & b.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 85

A Hellenistic amber-green cast glass lobed bowl Circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C. The deep bowl with a flaring rim and two pairs of wheel-cut bands on the exterior, with twelve uneven lobes alternating with wheel-cut petals radiating from a circle on the underside of the base, which contains a six-pointed star, 17.2cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:Mr Brailovsky Collection, Germany, 1989.David G. Giles (1940-2022) Collection, London, UK. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 339), acquired from the above on the 11 October 2016. Exhibited: The National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, NL, 'Glass', 1 June 2020 – 28 February 2021.A similar bowl in colourless glass with a greyish tinge and decorated with fins and wheel-cut petals in The Corning Museum of Glass has been assigned a possible Persian origin, but to a date after the Achaemenid Empire was conquered by Alexander the Great. Achaemenid glass tends to be colourless, while the amber colour of this glass is more indicative of a Hellenistic date. See Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), pp.134-5, no.277.It is also related to two colourless bowls in the British Museum dated to 225-200 B.C., that have a row of protruding short ribs or fins above a design of cut lotus petals that come from an early Hellenistic chamber tomb at Canosa di Puglia, in southern Italy, which also contained incredible examples of sandwich gold-glass. See Veronica Tatton-Brown, Hellenistic glass in the British Museum, in George Kordas (ed.), Hyalos Vitrum Glass, History, Technology and Conservation of Glass and Vitreous Materials in the Hellenic World (Athens 2002), p.92, fig.3.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 89

A small Roman ribbon glass shallow dish Early 1st Century A.D.The lens-shaped vessel comprising bands of translucent blue, opaque red, opaque yellow, opaque white, opaque green, a colourless glass reticelli rod with opaque yellow spirals, and a strip of blue reticelli rod with white spirals around the rim, 9cm diamFootnotes:Provenance:With Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, 1983. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 464. With Barakat Gallery, London, 1999.David G. Giles Collection, London, acquired from the above April 2008. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 308), acquired from the above on the 8 June 2015.Published:Gallery Ueda, Ancient Art II, Tokyo, no.14.This striped mosaic shallow dish belongs to a small group of similar lens-shaped striped mosaic small dishes including examples in the Toledo Museum of Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, and Landesmuseum Trier. In these bowls several lengths of composite mosaic canes, each containing themselves different lengths of opaque, translucent and even reticelli strips were laid side by side and secured by a reticelli rim. See David F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo 1989), pp.220, 252, 293-4, no.359. Sidney M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY, 1979), p.197, no.534, and Karin Goethert-Polaschek, Katalog der römischen Gläser des Rheinischen Landesmuseums Trier (Mainz am Rhein1977), pp.15-16, nos.4-6, pl.1.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 93

A Roman pale green glass amphora Circa 1st Century A.D.The tapering cylindrical body decorated with a series of encircling engraved bands of varying widths, the cylindrical neck with two handles dropped onto the shoulder and attached to the neck at right-angles, 22.2cm high Footnotes:Provenance:C.A. Hessing Collection, no.37.Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 216 (front cover).With Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg, Amsterdam.The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 083), acquired from the above on the 17 March 1999. Published:Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, The Eigth Wonder of the Ancient World (London 1994), p.9, no.50.Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg , Archaeology-Ancient Coins, Amsterdam, Spring 1999, no.102.J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p.116.Exhibited:Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no.205.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 99

A Roman yellow-green glass amphoriskos Circa 1st Century A.D.The globular body decorated with a continuous line of fine spiral trail, set on a ring base, with everted rim and two loop trail handles, 12cm highFootnotes:Provenance: C.A. Hessing Collection, coll. no.64. Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 September 1998, lot 234 (unsold). The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 091), acquired from C.A. Hessing on the 3 May 1999. Published: Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg, Archaeology-Ancient Coins, Amsterdam, Spring 1999, no.99.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 56

John M Bromley framed oil on panel of fishing boats, signed bottom left, 15 x 34.5cm

Lot 296

Meyer Uranovsky, South African b.1939 - Seascape with a sailing boat, 1971; oil on board, signed and dated lower right 'M. Uranovsky 1971', 32 x 47 cm: together with a framed oil entitled 'Mosque on the Hill', signed and dated 'M. Uranovskiy 72', 34.5 x 22.5 cm Provenance: die kunskamer, Cape Town, purchased 1973 (the second) (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)

Lot 308

Millie Frood, Scottish 1900–1988 - Birds, 1965; oil on panel, signed, titled and dated on the reverse 'M FROOD BIRDS 1965', 31 x 40.8 cm (ARR) Provenance: gifted by the Artist and thence by descent

Lot 313

Millie Frood, Scottish 1900–1988 - Two Figures; oil on board, initialled lower left 'M.F.', signed on the reverse 'M. Frood', 43 x 55 cm (ARR) Provenance: gifted by the Artist and thence by descent

Lot 45

John Mallard Bromley RBA, British 1859-1939 - Moorland scene with horse and cart on a bridge; oil on canvas, signed lower left 'John M Bromley', 74.5 x 124.5 cm

Lot 472

Mimmo Paladino Hon RA, Italian b.1948 - Maesta, 1998; terracotta and metal, signed and dated on the reverse 'M Paladino 1998', with studio stamp 'in Bottegagatti Frenza', 41.5 x 31.2 cm (ARR) Provenance: with Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris Salzburg (according to the label on the reverse) Note: since 1985, Palladino has worked in bronze. He is part of a group of European artists who revived Expressionist imagery in the 1980s. The weathered surfaces reference ancient art. He has participated in the Sydney Biennale, documenta 7, Kassel, Venice Biennale, Italian pavilion, and his first retrospective was held at the Lenbachaus in Munich.

Lot 81

Marcel Delmotte, Belgian 1901-1984 - Portrait of a woman, 1943; oil on panel, signed and dated lower right 'M. DELMOTTE 1943', 122.5 x 91.5 cm (ARR) Note: Delmotte was considered to be a realist painter for the first part of his artistic career, influenced by the models of the Italian Renaissance, as well as Rubens and Ingres. The present portrait is of this early period, where the realism and almost sculptural form of the sitter can be seen. By the 1950s he turned towards a more symbolic style creating compositions with surreal landscapes and futuristic architectures.

Lot 109

Marie-Lucie Nessi-Valtat, French 1900- 1992 - Spring Landscape; oil on panel, signed lower right 'M Nessi', 38 x 46 cm (ARR)

Lot 117

Martin Kaalund-Jorgensen, Danish 1889-1952 - Portrait of Kirsten in a yellow blouse, 1937; oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left 'M. Kaalund 37' and signed on the reverse, 60.5 x 46.3 cm: together with another work by the same artist, 'Portrait of an old man leaning on a stick, 1936', oil on canvas, signed with monogram and dated lower right 'MKJ 36', 58 x 47.5 cm (2) Exhibited: with Fyens Forum, Odense, 'Dansk Kunst', 1940 (according to the label attached to the reverse)

Lot 32

Two 9ct gold rings comprising a 9ct gold knot ring, size M approx, and a 9ct gold diamond set dress ring, size P approx, 5.8g approx gross (2)

Lot 35

Three 9ct gold dress rings, approx sizes M, N½ and O, 10.4g gross approx (3)

Lot 363

Pentax ME Super camera with SMC Pentax-M 1:17 50mm lens, together Inter-City MC Auto Zoom 1:4.5 f=80-200mm lens, Zeiss Ikon, etc.

Lot 42

22ct gold wedding band, size M approx, 6g approx

Lot 453

Bottle of Graham's Late Bottled Vintage Port, Dow's Master Blend and Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry together with a half bottle of M&S Special Reserve Port (4)

Lot 47

Two 22ct gold wedding bands, size F½ approx, and size M approx, 4.2g approx (2)

Lot 53

18ct gold engraved wedding band, size M approx, 2.2g approx, and a 9ct gold signet ring, size R approx, 4g approx (2)

Lot 264

1970 Chateau Leoville Las Cases, 2eme Cru ClasseSt JulienStained labels2 bottles T/S, 2 bottles M/S, 1 bottle L/S6x75clThese wines have been stored in an exceptional private cellar since first release

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