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Click here to subscribeHenry VII (1485-1509), Late Portrait issues, Groat, Dublin, type IA, mm. cross on obv., pierced cross on rev., double-arched crown with straight band, bust breaks plain tressure, English and French titles, 1.95g/10h (S 6455; DF 194). About very fine, reverse legend blundered in places with a unusual mint-mark for the issue £200-£260
Henry VII (1485-1509), Late Portrait issues, Groats (2), both Dublin, type IA, mm. cross on obv. only, double-arched crown with straight band, bust breaks plain tressure, English and French titles, reads henrid : dei, 1.80g/10h (S 6455; DF 194); type III, open flat crown, no tressure, rev. indented cross-ends, 1.70g/8h (S 6464; DF 200) [2]. First with a small plug at 12 o’clock, second with a flan crack at 7 o’clock, otherwise fine and better £100-£150
Henry VII (1485-1509), Late Portrait issues, Groat, Dublin, type III, open flat crown, no tressure, reads henricvs di gracia, rev. indented cross-ends, reads civitas dvbl, 1.90g/11h (S 6464; DF 200). About very fine for issue, traces of reverse cross visible in portrait, toned £200-£260 --- Provenance: Patrick Finn FPL 5, September 1995 (431)
Scotland, Alexander II, Short Cross and Stars coinage, Sterling, Phase C [in the name of William the Lion], Roxburgh, Peris Adam, bust left with sceptre, legend retrograde, rev. peris adam on r, 1.32g/1h (SCBI 35, 82, same obv. die; B 5f, fig. 66C; S 5034). Struck on a neat round flan, slight crease, otherwise good fine, portrait better, very rare £600-£800 --- Provenance: Found in North Norfolk
Henry II (1154-1189), Short Cross coinage, Penny, class Ib, Winchester, Gocelm, gocelm · on · winc, 1.48g/8h (Winchester Mint 2457a, this coin; SCBI Mass 502, this coin; N 963; S 1344). Very fine, strong portrait £150-£200 --- Provenance: From the Wainfleet (Lincolnshire) Hoard, 1990; J.P. Mass Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 65, 16 March 2005, lot 511 [from Baldwin 1993]
1st century BC-1st century AD and later. A silver portrait of winged Victory in profile, looking left, dressed in a short peplum, later incorporated into the base of a silvered bronze brooch. See the Boscoreale treasure in Strong, D., Greek and Roman Silver Plate, London, 1966. 11.9 grams, 29mm (1"). Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection formed since 1970. The delicate image of Victory was probably originally decorating a silver cup or vessel. The style of manufacture resembles that of Boscoreale cups, allowing a date to be established between 1st century BC and 1st century AD. The figure of Victory can be associated with the triumphal program of the first Roman emperor, exalting his victorious campaigns in East and Pannonia and the pacification of the empire. [No Reserve] For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price Fine condition.
6th-8th century AD. A gold finger ring with square bezel divided by a median cross flanked by two facing portrait busts and '[.]NONOI?' legend below. 10.07 grams, 24.43mm overall, 18.79mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q, USA 8, Europe 17.49, Japan 16) (1"). Property of a London lady, part of her family's collection; acquired in the 1970s; accompanied by an independent specialist report and valuation, ref. no.178363/13/07/2021; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10867-178363. Very fine condition. A large wearable size.
3rd-2nd millennium BC. A head of a nobleman or prince, carved in lapis lazuli; facial features formed in a stylised but semi-realistic fashion, featuring a long thin nose, large almond-shaped eyes, delicate and sensual lips and long ears ornamented with earrings; mounted on a custom-made display stand. Cf. a similar head from Lagash in the Louvre, accession number AO 4351, representing a man with shaven head; cf. the portrait of Gudea, King of Lagash (circa 2100-2090 BC) preserved in the MET, accession number 49.26, from Girsu (modern Tello); see a male head in white limestone in Berlin, Staatliche Museen, in Moortgat, A., The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia, London, New York, 1969, figs.168, 169. 273 grams total, 18.5cm including stand (7 1/4"). Property of a Kensington lady; acquired Austria in 1993; previously in the Trimbacher collection; formerly acquired in Germany in 1980; accompanied by an archaeological expertise by Dr. Raffaele D’Amato; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10581-173401. This incredible statuette head presents strong similarities with the head of a statuette in Louvre, for style and shape. The similarity of the eyes and the shape of the nose with the Louvre statuette is extraordinary and, as on another statue of Ur-Ningirsu, son of King Gudea, one side of the upper lip is higher than the other side. The striking similarities with Ur-Ningirsu and with the Louvre statuette (recently identified as a possible portrait of the same person), allows for the hypothesis that our head belongs to a portrait of a royal member of the Gudea family. Another element which shows similar features with the royal family of Lagash is the tip of the nose, which appears to be rounded if seen on the front and slightly squared-off when viewed from the side. Rarely does Sumerian statuary survive with coloured pigment, but the remains of blue colouration and lapis lazuli around the eyes suggests that the head may have originally featured light blue and blue pigments around the eyes for emphasis. The baldness of the head indicates that the figure possibly represents a prince-priest. [A video of this lot can be viewed on the Timeline Auctions website] Fine condition.
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BC. A carved black granite head of a male with realistic features, the oblong face showing several signs of age related to the conventional Ptolemaic representation of an ageing face: the forehead deeply marked by a set of horizontal wrinkles and side of the mouth with deep grooves; the unusually large almond-shaped eyes executed asymmetrically, with the left eye smaller than the right; the short-cropped hair arranged in curls and adorned with a diadem; the reverse showing traces of an undecorated pillar; mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Bianchi, R.S., The Striding Draped Male Figure of Ptolemaic Egypt, 1978, in Herwig Maehler and Volker Michael Strocka (ed.), Das ptolemäische Ägypten. Akten des internationalen Symposions 27. - 29. September 1976 in Berlin, Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern; Bothmer, B.V., The Signs of Age, Bull. Mus. Fine Arts, Boston, 1951, 49, 277; Bothmer, B.V., Egyptian Antecedents of Roman Republican Verism, 1988, Quad. Ric. Scient., 116; Bothmer, B.V. et al., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1960; Walker, S. & Higgs, P., Cleopatra of Egypt, from History to the Myth, London, 2001, p.112, fig.138, pp.180-183, figs.189-190, 226, no.207, for similar sculptures; see Bothmer, 1951, 69-74; Bothmer, 1988, 47-65, for discussion of signs of the ageing face. 2.7 kg total, 21cm including stand (8 1/4"). From the private collection of a New York collector; part of his family collection since at least the early 1970s; inked collection number '93' to the reverse; thence by descent from his grandfather in 1975; accompanied by a scholarly note by Dr Alberto Maria Pollastrini. Dr Alberto Maria Pollastrini writes: 'The head was originally part of a standing statue, probably a 'striding draped male figure', a typology well attested in the corpus of Ptolemaic artistic production (Bianchi 1978, 95-102"). According to the strong similarities with the dark grey schist portrait head preserved in the Walter Art Gallery of Baltimore, Md.; no. 22.9 (W.A.G. no. 230) (Bothmer et alii 1960,153-154, pl. CIX, figs. 293-294), I can suggest a dating of the head under consideration in the 2nd century BCE.' [No Reserve] Fair condition.
Late 19th-mid 20th century AD. A hand-painted miniature portrait of a young Sikh prince sitting on a cushion wearing a bejewelled dastar and supporting a sheathed shamshir in his right hand; behind him, a bearded attendant in white robes with a fly-whisk over his shoulder and holding a shamshir against his left leg; ornamental corners and border; Sikh School. 49 grams, 25.6 x 18.5cm (10 x 7 1/4"). From the private family collection of a West London gentleman; previously in the personal collection of Harmadar Singh Thind; thence by descent. Fine condition.
A gold plated Waltham pocket watch, a small French white metal cased pocket watch, a further chrome cased pocket watch and a miniature photographic portrait on glass (4)Qty: 4Condition report: Waltham pocket watch ticking but missing subsidary second hand, wear to the gold plate; small pocket watch not ticking, untested, wear to the case; other pocket watch missing glass; photographic picture with losses
PAINTINGS AND PRINTS etc, comprising a profile portrait of a horse, indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, framed, approximate size 63cm x 75cm (patched repair, frame damaged), coastal landscape, oil on canvas signed Wright, overpainted photograph of a male figure, needlework picture of dogs and F.M. Bennett hunting print (5)
CRAIG ALAN (AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY) 'ONE SPEED DEAN' a portrait of James Dean, signed bottom right, mixed media on board, approximate sizes - image 102cm x 101cm, frame 111cm x 111cm (Condition:- painting varnish is lightly scratched in places with areas of heavy scuffing to the top corners, frame chipped and scratched)
JOHN OBRISSET (ACTIVE ABOUT 1705-27), A 17TH CENTURY PRESSED TORTOISESHELL PORTRAIT PLAQUE OF CHARLES I, now set on a Perspex mount, inscribed labels verso. Plaque 10.5cm by 9cm, stand 18cm high CONDITION REPORTA small hairline crack to the lower centre. A tiny chip to the edge where it meets the brass surround. In otherwise good condition commensurate with age.
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