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A Neolithic culture (7000-2000 B.C) green nephrite Jade magnetic alien tolem god, the lower part of the body of alien form. The head emanates the top torso of the humanoid creature. Reputedly discovered in inner Mongolia, 22.5cm tall

A Neolithic culture ( c 7000-2000 B.C) Jade alien- like figurine of the time of the Dropa people carved from imperial white nephrite Jade, 20cm tall

An approximately 3000 B.C. Neolithic guardian lidded vase with human alien face. Thought to originate from a culture which co-existed with The Hongshan and Liangzhu in China, 21.5cm tall

Barber (E.J.W.). Prehistoric Textiles, the development of cloth in the neolithic and bronze ages, Princeton University Press, USA, 1991, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth, 4to, together with other embroidery and textile reference, and related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves)

A group of Chinese carved hardstones Carved in the neolithic manner, the first two pendants or Ji, modelled as fish, 8cm, the third a scroll terminal, 6cm and the fourth a miniature stem cup carved with a dragon, 8cm. (4)

A Neolithic / Bronze Age polished stone axe-hammer, 12 cm

A LARGE CHINESE NEOLITHIC STYLE HARDSTONE BI DISC, together with a fitted metal display stand, the disc 15.75in diameter.

A Chinese burnished black 'egg shell' pottery stem cup. Neolithic period Longshan culture, Northern Ching Shandong (2500-2000BC). 20.5 cm tall. Provenance: From a respectable family in Buckinghamshire. Purchased and acquired in early 1990's and kept in their private possession. 

A Chinese Neolithic period painted pottery jar. (10th to early millennium BC).31 cm tall Provenance: From a respectable family in Buckinghamshire. Purchased and acquired in early 1990's and kept in their private possession. 

Two Chinese Neolithic period pottery pots with handles. 13cm tall and 11.5cm tall Provenance: From a respectable family in Buckinghamshire. Purchased and acquired in early 1990's and kept in their private possession. 

Two Chinese Neolithic period pottery jars with twin handles. Smaller pot with damaged handle. 12cm tall and 26cm tall Provenance: From a respectable family in Buckinghamshire. Purchased and acquired in early 1990's and kept in their private possession. 

Six stone axe heads including a Lower Paleolithic hand axe, 18.7cm long, a Neolithic calcinated axe head, 18.5cm long, three Scandinavian Neolithic axe heads, 12cm, 16.5cm and 26.5cm long, and a bronze age basalt drilled axe head, 21.5cm long. (6)

A Chinese Neolithic period twin handled terracotta jar, c. 2000-1500 BC, of tapered ovoid form, with twin loop handles to the belly and waisted neck with everted rim, decorated with dark brown painted spirals within looped borders, the neck with painted zig-zags, 13¾in. (35cm.) high, remains of old collection label to base, some encrustation to neck, minor old rim chip.

A small collection of archaeological finds to include neolithic flint arrow heads, Roman bone hair pin and spoon and three Roman lead slingshots

Nine chisel and anvils, middle to late bronze age, 1500-800 BC, four flint axe/cutting tools and a further polished axe head and three hammer stones, possibly Neolithic, 5000-3000 BC, (qty).

Early 3rd millennium BC. A mixed grave assemblage of the Corded Ware Culture comprising: a ceramic jar with narrow base, rounded body, scooped shoulder and short everted rim, bands of decoration formed by impressing a cord into the clay while wet; a knapped and polished flint leaf-shaped blade, lentoid in section with rounded butt; a boat-shaped polished granite(?) axehead with square butt and circular hole to accept a wooden haft; a smaller similar axehead with a finer polish, narrow blade; a spherical stone cobble. See Briard, J. The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe, London, 1979 for general discussion; Pospieszny, L. et al. Remains of a late Neolithic barrow at Kruszyn. A glimpse of ritual and everyday life in early Corded Ware societies of the Polish Lowland in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 90, 2015. 2.1 kg total, jar: 15cm (6"). Property of a lady living in Kent, UK; formerly part of her grandfather's collection; acquired in Germany after WWII; thence by descent 2006. Corded Ware Culture was prevalent in large areas of Europe from the Rhine to the Volga in the 3rd millennium BC, encompassing the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in these areas. Its heartland appears to have been the Central European Plain in the region of modern Germany and Poland, and is largely coterminous with the Single Grave Culture in which burial takes place in a crouched or foetal posture, beneath an earth mound. It is characterised by inclusion in graves of distinctive ceramic vessels decorated by impressing twisted cords into the wet clay. The presence of a flint blade and multiple stone shaft-hole axeheads is typical of the burial rite for northern Europe, and the inclusion of a single cobble (a naturally smoothed stone from a river) is also paralleled e.g. the burial mound at Kruszyn, Poland, excavated in 2009 (Pospieszny, 2015"). [5] Fine condition.

Early 3rd millennium BC. A squat ceramic vessel with narrow base, rounded body, scooped shoulder and broad mouth; the body decorated with impressed verticals panels of cord and the shoulder with horizontal similar panels and raised bands with impressed detailing, roundels to the nodes with concentric rings; applied cord detailing to the rim. See Briard, J. The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe, London, 1979 for discussion. 896 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a lady living in Kent, UK; formerly part of her grandfather's collection; acquired in Germany after WWII; thence by descent 2006. Corded Ware Culture was prevalent in large areas of Europe from the Rhine to the Volga in the 3rd millennium BC, encompassing the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in these areas. Its heartland appears to have been the Central European Plain in the region of modern Germany and Poland, and is largely coterminous with the Single Grave Culture in which burial takes place in a crouched or foetal posture, beneath an earth mound. It is characterised by inclusion in graves of distinctive ceramic vessels decorated by impressing twisted cords into the wet clay. Fine condition.

A large Chinese Neolithic Impressed Pottery Jar  of the Caiyuan Culture. This attractively-shaped pottery jar was made some 4,000 years ago by peoples of the Caiyuan Culture (c. 2600 - 2200 BC) and would have been excavated from the Ningxia Autonomous Region in the north of China. This fine example shows a scene with bird and what appears to be a dog.It is quite "heavily-potted" and has been fired to a very pleasing orange-brown colour. A very large example at 44 cms.China, Caiyuan Culture, C. 2600-2200 BC.TL TESTED BY OXFORD AUTHENTICATION.Ex. Private collection, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Chinese Painted Neolithic Jar. Yangshao Culture, 6th-4th millennium BC. A ceramic vessel with flared mouth and small neck widening to the sloping shoulders; globular body narrowing to the flat base; applied strap handles to the lower body; upper body and neck decorated with red and black pigment with geometric patterns. Good condition. Small chip to the rim. Size: 31cm. Provenance: Ex. Private Hong Kong collection 1970-2000. Declaration of provenance:  All provenance details are supplied by the vendor (consignor) – Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers supply a Certificate of Authenticity with all antiquities sold showing authenticity. Provenance and known details recorded on this.

A quantity of mixed fossils from Eastern Saudi Arabia, Amazonian Amber and Neolithic Saudi Arabian flint tools

A collection of five Neolithic stone tools to include a large stone axe hammer with drilled short shaft hole and tapering sides to a cutting edge, 22cm long x 8cm deep x 9cm wide (8.5 x 3 x 3.5in), together with another axe hammer, 19cm x 7cm x 11cm (7.5 x 2.75 x 4.5in), a large round grinding stone, 12cm (4.75in) diameter, a shaped grinding stone with flat grinding surface and shaped grip, 9cm x 10cm high (3.5 x 4in), and a shaped quern, 17cm (7in) long Axe with paper label 'found about 1870 at Beetham Westmorland by the gardener Pearson and given Mr J Walker when he left' (5) Other Notes: Man has been living on what we now know as the British Isles for about 750,000 years, surviving by gathering and hunting. As the last Ice Age came to an end, around 10,000 years ago, the sea levels rose and Britain became separated from the European mainland. With this came the introduction of farming, and modern homo sapiens learnt how to produce food rather than gather it. These tools were used for everyday use in food preparation, but were also status symbols and weapons.

A framed display of 27 Neolithic - Bronze Age flints, Wykeham Forest, near Scarborough and three other displays, including a collection of 40 Neolithic flints found at Kieler-Aussenforde, Ellerbek hunter-gatherer and fishing culture (label in German), a collection of 18 mixed items, including flints, pottery and Bronze and Iron Age artefacts and a framed display containing a Danish thich-butted B-type Brogaard/Falster axe, East Zealand 2600 BC and three Ertebolle culture flints

A prehistoric polished grey flint axe head, L 11cm and four other items, including a large Acheulean hand axe, Great Blakenham Quarry, Suffolk, L 13.5cm and a Neolithic axe head, spear head and blade, Sahara (5)

A collection of framed Neolithic and other tools and flint arrow heads, including a Paleolithic fine pointed hand axe, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, 1885 (ex Sir Arthur Evans and H. Dewey collection), 17 flint arrowheads, Angelina County, Texas (ex James Barrett collection), 12 Danish Mesolithic tools, 5,000 BC, Mejloe Island and a similar Ertebolle flake axe, Grena, Djursland, a flint hand axe, 200,000 BC, Friston, Sussex 1888 and two flint tools, Larne Beach, County Antrim (six framed displays)

A framed display containing a Paleolithic Henley Pit chopper core and Moortown Pit handaxe and two other displays, including a flake tool and pick from Longham Pit, Dorset and a collection of 15 Neolithic flints, Keswick, Norfolk (3, two frames lacking glass, one missing label)

A stone fishing/loom weight and a large collection of prehistoric flint tools, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, including arrow heads (stuck down on several sheets), scrapers, blades, microliths, a spear point, axe head, etc., many with inked inscriptions, acquisition numbers or in labelled bags, some reputedly ex-Dewey and Verstage (AHV) collections (a box)

A collection of framed Neolithic and other tools and flint arrow heads, including a Paleolithic fine pointed hand axe, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, 1885 (ex Sir Arthur Evans and H. Dewey collection), 17 flint arrowheads, Angelina County, Texas (ex James Barrett collection), 12 Danish Mesolithic tools, 5,000 BC, Mejloe Island and a similar Ertebolle flake axe, Grena, Djursland, a flint hand axe, 200,000 BC, Friston, Sussex 1888 and two flint tools, Larne Beach, County Antrim (six framed displays)

A framed display of 27 Neolithic - Bronze Age flints, Wykeham Forest, near Scarborough and three other displays, including a collection of 40 Neolithic flints found at Kieler-Aussenforde, Ellerbek hunter-gatherer and fishing culture (label in German), a collection of 18 mixed items, including flints, pottery and Bronze and Iron Age artefacts and a framed display containing a Danish thich-butted B-type Brogaard/Falster axe, East Zealand 2600 BC and three Ertebolle culture flints

A stone fishing/loom weight and a large collection of prehistoric flint tools, Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, including arrow heads (stuck down on several sheets), scrapers, blades, microliths, a spear point, axe head, etc., many with inked inscriptions, acquisition numbers or in labelled bags, some reputedly ex-Dewey and Verstage (AHV) collections (a box)

A framed display containing a Paleolithic Henley Pit chopper core and Moortown Pit handaxe and two other displays, including a flake tool and pick from Longham Pit, Dorset and a collection of 15 Neolithic flints, Keswick, Norfolk (3, two frames lacking glass, one missing label)

Late Roman/Byzantine oil lamp, with a central crucifix and geometric design to the edge, 13cm long, together with a Neolithic axe head, 11cm long

Two Neolithic / Bronze Age polished stone hand axes, one bearing old collection inventory number

Chinese Neolithic Terracotta Jar, C. 10,000 B.C. Chinese Neolithic Terracotta shaped jar with bulbous body, rimmed neck and rough formed bulbous handles. In beige fired terracotta. Complete and unrestored. 300 mm. Weight 1100g

Prehistoric tools: A fine Long shafted Neolithic hand axe , North Africa on bronze stand 28cm high overall, A prized possession of an ancestor, this hand or shafted axe probably captivated an ancient as much as we are today by the fine grade of the stone, honed thousands of years ago, preserved kindly by the subsequent centuries. With a smooth surface patina to the touch, derived from continuous handling conditions with partial wear to the edges, exhibiting an exquisite fineness of mastered form and possibly once surmounted onto a wooden shaft and attached by animal sinew or reed straps.

A Tray Containing Brass Lion Mask Door Knocker, Silver Plated Lidded Pot, Thai Bronze Figure, Reproduction Neolithic Dove Lamp etc

A Chinese Neolithic age painted pottery jar (10th to early 1st millennium BC). 38cm tall Provenance: From an English private collection in Buckinghamshire. 

Two Chinese carved jade beads, possibly Neolithic Together with a Chinese carved jade pendant worked as a baby mythical beast. The latter 8 cm long. CONDITION REPORTS: All generally good condition, expected wear, some chips/nibbles.

OLEG TSELKOV (RUSSIAN B. 1934) Portrait, 1960 oil on board 69.5 x 39.5 cm (27 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.) dated lower right; signed, dated and titled in Cyrillic on verso PROVENANCE Acquired by the father of the present ownerLOT NOTES The following portrait by Tselkov, with its large, pale, red-lipped face, is a rare example of the artist's early style. Featuring his signature monumental, almost Neolithic forms, this 1960 work is a portent of Tselkov's later pieces (monochromatic, with a tactile, malleable quality; awash in a hazy, mystical light). The bright and varied colour palette, deep-set serpentine eyes, bulging neck, are distinguishing features of the portrait which all but disappear from later works. Another signifier of this very early style is the small flowerpot, gingerly held in the man's hands, which Tselkov often featured in his 1960s paintings, such as Portrait and Flower (1962), Self-portrait (1964) and Portrait of Two Women (1966).

3rd millennium BC. A nephrite jade pi ceremonial flat-section ring. See Rawson, J. Chinese Jade: From the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995. 94 grams, 73mm (3"). Property of a Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK collector; formerly in a Swiss collection; acquired Hong Kong in the 1980s. The exact purpose of these carefully made jade rings has never been established. They occur singly in wealthy burials, from the period of the Hongshan culture, about 3800 BC, where they are usually placed prominently on the stomach or chest. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 6th-2nd millennium BC. A mixed group comprising two small and one large barbed and tanged flint arrowheads and three flint scrapers marked 'Peter's Cott / Enton, Sy / 1961' and 'KES / 1963' and 'Girtons Wood / Wordley' and '1978 surface Arab castle W., Palmyra'; with old collector's note The arrowheads are neolithic from the Northern Tunisian Sahara in the Matmata-Medenne area. They cost 19 Dinar (21 pounds) in Feb 1980. The trail jup is from El Jhem and cost 8 Dinar from Mahommet Soussi. 29 grams, 22.5-66.8mm (3/4-2 1/2"). Property of a Surrey lady; acquired by her father Christopher Terry in the late 1970s-early 1980s. [6, No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic Period, 8th-5th millennium BC. A knapped and polished flint axehead with rounded butt, gently curved edge. Cf. Evans, J. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, London, 1897, item 35 for type. 65 grams, 95mm (3 3/4"). Property of a North West London gallery; formerly in a 1980s collection. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 6th-4th millennium BC. A mixed group of flint and other arrowheads comprising ten leaf-shaped, five barbed, eight barbed-and-tanged types. 41 grams, 20-65mm (3/4 - 2 1/2"). Ex Vincent collection, Berkshire, UK; formed since the 1970s. [23] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 3rd-2nd millennium BC. A group of seventeen pale grey bifacial trapezoidal, finely knapped points. 80 grams total, 44-61mm (1 3/4 - 2 1/2"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; formerly from the collection of an East Anglia gentleman; acquired on the London art market. [17, No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 4th millennium BC. A fine grained sandstone smoother of an irregular oblong shape with rounded ends. 1.1 kg, 24.5cm (9 1/2"). From the collection of an East London gentleman; by inheritance; originally acquired 1950s-1960s. Fine condition.

Neolithic, 4th-3rd millennium BC. A mixed group comprising: two flint microlith scrapers; two pierced canine teeth; three pierced bone fragments; a boar's tusk(?) section. 23 grams, 23-100mm (1 - 4"). Property of a professional gentleman, acquired 2011; formerly in a private collection formed before 1950. [8, No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 4th-2nd millennium BC. A mixed group of knapped flint scrapers; mostly of the Neolithic period. 526 grams total, 27-69mm (1 - 2 3/4"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; previously in an old Sussex collection; collected during 1960s-1970s. [20, No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 4th-3rd millennium BC. A mixed bone group comprising: a spearpoint with one pointed and one chisel end; a spearpoint with both ends pointed; a harpoon with one pointed end and the other with two barbs. 23 grams, 60-120mm (2 1/4 - 4 3/4"). Property of a professional gentleman, acquired 2011; formerly in a private collection formed before 1950. [3, No Reserve] Fine condition.

Neolithic, 6th-4th millennium BC. A ceramic figurine of a standing female with lobed headdress, stub arms extended, incised detail to face and body. See Villes, A & Luci, K. Dieux des Balkans. Figurines Néolithiques du Kosovo, Paris, 2015 for discussion. 242 grams, 16cm (6 1/4"). From an old European collection; acquired in Munich in the 1970s. Fine condition.

Neolithic, 7th-5th millennium BC. A group of diorite stone pecked and ground Neolithic axeheads with asymmetric convex cutting edge tapering to a rounded butt; from North West Sahara. 673 grams total, 95-105mm (3 3/4 - 4 1/4"). Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman; formerly in an old Oxford collection. [3, No Reserve] Fine condition.

JADE DISC, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF THE LIANGZHU CULTURE, the stone of grey/green tone with darker mottling and striations, with a smoothed down section to the rim, the whole with a subtle polish enhancing the form of the stone, 17cm diam, on a patinated bronze stand

JADE DISC, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF THE LIANGZHU CULTURE, the golden brown stone with celadon and creamy mottling, with a soft lustrous polish, 13.5cm diam, on a patinated bronze stand

JADE CONG, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF WESTERN CHINA, the plain rectangular vessel with a circular top and base, the extensively calcified stone with dark green/grey striations and creamy coloured mottling and other areas of pale biscuit stone, with a smooth matt polish and areas of old damage exposing the rough stone, 26cm high, on a patinated bronze stand Note: This cong belongs to a group usually attributed to Western China and dated between the Neolithic and Western Zhou periods. Similar examples have been excavated from Shang Quancun in Shanxi Province. These relatively plain cong may be compared with jades from Guanghan Sanxingdui in Sichuan Province.

CEREMONIAL JADE BLADE, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF THE LONGSHAN CULTURE, the flared blade of rectangular form with a single hole drilled in the narrow end, the dark grey stone with creamy patches and mottling, with a subtle lustrous polish, 24cm long, on a patinated bronze stand

CEREMONIAL JADE BLADE, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF THE LONGSHAN CULTURE the shaped rectangular blade with three pierced holes along the upper edge, the olive green and brown stone with interesting creamy white and darker brown striations and mottling, with a subtle polish, 26cm long, on a patinated bronze stand

LARGE CEREMONIAL JADE BLADE, NEOLITHIC STYLE, the shaped rectangular blade with one large pierced hole and two smaller pierced holes in an irregular pattern, the honey coloured brown stone darkening towards the blade edge and with creamy dark green striations and a large celadon cloud patch towards the centre, the stone with a soft lustrous polish, 38cm long, on a patinated bronze stand

MONUMENTAL JADE CEREMONIAL BLADE, NEOLITHIC STYLE, the slightly tapering rectangular blade with a single pierced hole and the grey stone with large creamy "cloud" inclusions with honey coloured highlights, the stone with a soft lustrous polish, 41cm high, on a patinated bronze stand

A MONUMENTAL CHINESE JADE CEREMONIAL BLADE, NEOLITHIC STYLE OF THE LONGSHAN OR ERLITOU CULTURES, the slightly flared rectangular blade with a rounded end and a single circular hole, the dark olive green stone with areas of creamy mottling with dark honey coloured striations, the stone with a soft lustrous polish but with areas along the edges chipped to expose the rough stone, 40.5cm long x 19.5cm wide (maximum) and 1.5cm deep, on a patinated bronze stand

A collection of antiquities and fossils, including an Ancient Egyptian turquoise faience amulet, as a scarab beetle, 1.3cm long; a Roman terracotta oil lamp, moulded in high and low relief with stylized motifs, 8cm long, 4th - 5th century AD; fossilized limestone timber section, 17cm long, late 19th century ink MS collector's note inscribed Petrified Wood, Found at Purbeck [Dorset], Nearly 3,000,000 years old; Stone Age obsidian arrowheads (3), other arrowheads (3); Neolithic knapped flints and tools (9); (collection)

A Chinese pale green jade 'chilong' disc, Bi Probably Ming Dynasty Of pale celadon hue with cloudy inclusions, carved to one side with a writhing chilong with bifurcated tail, and to the other in low relief with lingzhi mushrooms. 5cm dia. FOOTNOTE: Bi discs appear from the neolithic period onwards and are associated with the heavens and the afterworld. Often found at the burial sites of high status individuals, bi disks were placed either side of the head or under the knees of the body. Being symbolic of the sky they were also used by the emperor during the sacrifice to heaven.PROVENANCE: The John Laycock Collection, thence by descent to the vendor.  See lot 1 for further details.

A Chinese grey and russet jade disc, Bi Possibly Neolithic/Liangzhu Culture Of slightly uneven thickness, the semi translucent pale grey/green stone with dark brown inclusions and satin polish. 12.5cm dia. FOOTNOTE: Two very similar Neolithic bi discs of larger diameter can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection.PROVENANCE: The John Laycock Collection, thence by descent to the vendor.  See lot 1 for further details.