Antiquities

Antiquities and Tribal Art 

14 September 2016

Sale Calendar 

Tuesday 6th September 

Asian Art 


Fine Art followed by European Works of Art and Clocks 

Wednesday 14th September 



Jewellery followed by Silver & Objects of Vertu 

Wednesday 21st September 

Canals 


20th Century and Contemporary Art & Design 

Wednesday 28th September 

Printed Books and Manuscripts – Special Erotica & Science sale 

Tuesday 4th October 

Wine and Spirits followed by Rugs 

Wednesday 5th October 

Canes and Walking Sticks 


Ceramics and Glass 

Wednesday 12th October 

Printed Books and Manuscripts – The Henry Blofeld Collection 


Designer Handbags and Fashion 


General sale 

Tuesday 1st November 

Jewellery 

Tuesday 8th November 

Medals and Militaria followed by Watches 


Asian Art 

Tuesday 22nd November 

Rugs 


20th Century and Contemporary Art & Design 

Wednesday 30th November 

Printed Books and Manuscripts 

Tuesday 6th December 

Silver & Objects of Vertu followed by Antiquities and Tribal Art 

Wednesday 7th December 



Fine Art 

Wednesday 14th December 

European Works of Art 


Jewellery & Watches followed by Vintage Wine and Spirits 

Tuesday sales start at 11am, followed by a general antique auction 

every week – Wednesday sales start at 1pm. 

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20th Century and Contemporary Art and Design 

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14 September 2016, 1pm 

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Antiquities 

Lots 1–228

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AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER SHALLOW BOWL 

Early Dynastic, 1st-2nd Dynasty, circa 3100-2700 B.C. 

With flattened base and flat-cut rim, 29cm diam 

Provenance: Nikos Paschalis (1918-1948) Collection, Greece, Egypt 

and the Middle East, thence by descent to the family in Australia. 

£700-£900 

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AN EGYPTIAN BLACK-TOPPED POTTERY BOWL 

Naqada II-III, circa 3200-3000 B.C. 

With sloping walls and flat base, the interior decorated with black slip, 

22cm diam 



£600-£800 

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FIVE EGYPTIAN STONE VESSELS 

Middle Kingdom to Late Period, circa 1991-332 B.C. 

Including two alabaster kohl jars, a marble ovoid jar, and two alabaster 

alabastra, one with small lug handles, 4.2cm-9.2cm high (5) 

Provenance: UK private collection, acquired in the 1930s by the 

owner’s grandfather, H.G. Ramsell (d.1960), Wolverhampton, thence by 

descent. 

£500-£700 

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION COSMETIC VESSEL 

Middle Kingdom, circa 2133-1797 B.C. 

The tapering drum-shaped body with two small lug handles and wide 

disc rim, 7cm high 

Provenance: UK private collection, purchased from Brigantia Antiques, 

The Red House, York, in 2002. 

£100-£150 

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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME WOOD FARMING SCENE 


Showing the male farmer wearing a short kilt, the right arm raised 

holding a stick, following a couple of white oxen with black markings 

and short horns, tied to a plough, the male figure approx 23cm high, the 

oxen and plough approx 32cm long 



£2,000-£3,000 

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD RIGHT ARM 


Slightly bent at the elbow, the finely carved fingers with detailed nails, 

remains of red pigment, 27.5cm long 

Provenance: Swiss private collection of Mr B. Schneider, Schaffhausen, 

acquired in the 1970s. 

£300-£400 

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FIVE EGYPTIAN WOOD ANIMAL FIGURES 


Including two trussed oxen and three birds, 10cm-14cm long (5) 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased in Zurich, circa 2000. 

Steinberg Collection, acquired on the London art market in the 1960s- 

1970s. 

£300-£500 

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENT 

New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, 19th Dynasty, circa 1200 B.C. 

From a wall or an obelisk, one side carved in low relief with part of a 

hieroglyphic inscription including part of a goddess figure and Horus 

standing on a serekh; the other side incised with three columns of text, 

the first column including ‘ne-hem’, ‘make for or remove’, and the 

second column mentioning ‘fear’, approx 10cm wide 

Provenance: Hugh Stanley Russell (1924-2000) Collection, Malvern, 

acquired between 1950-1970. Exchanged with the current owner circa 

1975. 

£300-£500 

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AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FUNERARY CONE FOR MERYMOSE 

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1550-1295 B.C. 

The circular face impressed with three column of text, for ‘the honoured 

one of Osiris, the Viceroy of Kush, Merymose’, with remains of red 

pigment, with an old collection label giving the typewritten translation of 

the text, 11.5cm high 

Provenance: English private collection, Sussex, acquired in the 1990s. 

G. B. S. Errington Collection, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a letter 

from I. E. S. Edwards, Assistant Keeper at the British Museum 

addressed to Mr Errington mentioning this cone and another one, dated 

4th January 1950. 

£300-£500 

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AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA ANTHOPOMORPHIC SARCOPHAGUS 

LID FRAGMENT 

New Kingdom, Ramesside Period, circa 1300-1000 B.C. 

Showing part of the striated wig, the left ear and part of the left eye, with 

remains of black paint, 34cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired on the London art 

market in the early 1990s. 

£80-£120 


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AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTI 

Third Intermediate Period, circa 1069-702 B.C. 

With details added in black paint, inscribed for ‘Shed-su-Hori’, 10.5cm 

high 

Provenance: purchased at Fieldings, Stourbridge, 8 September 2012, 

lot 673. H. O’Brien Collection, purchased in Cairo in 1935. 

£600-£800 

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FOUR EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES 

New Kingdom to Late Period, circa 1550-332 B.C. 

Including a bright blue glazed composition scarab inscribed with 

sunken text for ‘the good god, Lord of the two lands’ mounted as a 

pendant with modern metal, New Kingdom, 18mm long; a miniature 

green glazed composition shabti, 35mm long; and two miniature bronze 

amulets of Osiris, with suspension hoop at the back, Late Period, 4.2cm 

long (4) 

Provenance: English private collection of Mr Hathaway, acquired whilst 

in Egypt in 1935, thence by descent. Accompanied by a handwritten 

letter dated 22 March 1935, Cairo, describing another royal scarab and 

its impression. 

£200-£300 

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THREE EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION SHABTIS AND A 

FRAGMENT 

Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, circa 1069-332 B.C. 

Including a bright blue example with black details inscribed on the front 

for ‘Hor’, 10.2cm high, and a miniature green glazed shabti with black 

face, 4.7cm high, both Third Intermediate Period; a fragment with two 

columns of text for ‘the King’s scribe Hor-khebi’, 4.5cm high, Late 

Period; and a glassy blue glazed composition shabti, 11cm high. 

Possibly Not Ancient (4) 

Provenance: the shabti for ‘Hor’ and the fragment for ‘Hor-khebi’ are 

from the Ernest Seymour Thomas Collection (d. 1936), England, 

acquired in the early 20th Century, thence by descent. Bonhams, 30 

September 2014, lot 207 (part). 

The miniature green shabti: Rudolph and Leonard Forrer Collection, 

London, formed between 1930s-1950s, thence by descent. Bonhams, 

30 September 2014, lot 254. 

The glassy blue shabti: old Swedish Collection. 

£300-£500 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION PAPYRUS 

SCEPTRE AMULET 

Late Period to Ptolemaic, circa 664-32 B.C. 

With impressed details and suspension loop at the top, 6cm long 

Provenance: UK collection, acquired in the late 1970s. 

£200-£300 

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TWENTY EGYPTIAN AMULETS 


Including a glassy paste ‘sma’ amulet, a hematite undetailed plummet, 

two blue glazed composition djed pillar amulets, a green glazed 

composition papyrus sceptre; a feldspar plaque with stylised ‘wadj’ in 

relief, a granite and a glazed composition sun disc, a hematite headrest 

amulet, two hardstone udjat eyes, a red jasper, feldspar and grey stone 

heart amulets, a green glazed composition writing tablet amulet, two 

seal amulets, and three others, 12mm-38mm long (20) 

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SIX EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION UDJAT EYES 


All pierced for suspension, with added black details, 1.2cm-3.3cm long 

(6) 

Provenance: Bernard C. Pickard Collection, England, acquired in the 

1970s. 

£250-£350 

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No Lot 

Provenance: Danish private collection of an Egyptologist, formed from 

the mid-1970s. 

£300-£500 


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AN EGYPTIAN LAPIS LAZULI SCARAB 

New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C. 

Anatomically carved, with finely striated wing case and feathered legs 

beneath, pierced for suspension, 22mm long 

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Provenance: Gustave Mustaki Collection, Alexandria, Egypt, formed in 

the mid-20th Century. 

£200-£300 

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AN EGYPTIAN FELDSPAR HEART SCARAB 


Naturalistically carved, the underside incised with five lines left blank, 

4.4cm long 



£300-£500 

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FOUR EGYPTIAN SCARABS AND SCARABOIDS 

Middle Kingdom - New Kingdom, circa 2133-1070 B.C. 

Including two carnelian scarabs, naturalistically carved, one engraved 

with an ornate symbol on the underside; a green jasper scaraboid; and 

a Ramesside bright blue glazed composition scaraboid, moulded with 

the seated lunar baboon on one side and impressed text on the 

underside, all pierced for suspension, 13mm-19mm (4) 



Literature: for a similar scaraboid with lunar baboon, cf. C. Andrews, 

Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 53, fig. 54i. 

£350-£450 

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION PATAIKOS CIPPUS 

AMULET 

Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C. 

The dwarf god depicted holding snakes, with a scarab on its head, 

flanked by two goddesses and with a male deity at the back, 3.8cm high 

Provenance: Agnes Barclay Collection, formed in the 1920s-1930s. 

£300-£400 

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TWENTY-ONE EGYPTIAN GREEN GLAZED COMPOSITION AMULETS 


Including two triad amulets with Harpokrates flanked by Isis and 

Nephthys, two amulets of Isis, two amulets of Nephthys, two for Horus 

wearing a sun disc headdress and one wearing the pschent crown, one 

example for ibis-headed Thoth, one papyrus sceptre, eight finely 

moulded djed pillars, and two other amulets of striding deities, 24mm- 

36mm long (21) 

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Provenance: Bernard C. Pickard Collection, England, formed in the 

1970s. 

£2,500-£3,000 

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NINETEEN EGYPTIAN AMULETS 


Including a hardstone udjat eye and three glazed composition 

examples, a large papyrus sceptre amulet, a white glazed composition 

amulet of Isis and Horus, and two Horus falcons with black paint dots, a 

green faience amulet with four Bes figures, two amulets of Pataikos, two 

of a jackal-headed deity, a couchant hare with long ears, two lions, and 

a ram, a squatting baboon, and a triad amulet, 21mm-52mm long (19) 

Provenance: Antoni Sikorski Collection, London, formed between the 

1950s-1970s. Antoni Sikorski was born in Poland and then joined the 

Polish Armed Forces in the West during WWII fighting alongside the 

British Army. After the war he settled in London where he formed his 

collection. 

£250-£350 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AMULETS AND 

SHABTIS 


Including a miniature shabti, a large amulet in the form of a Bes head, a 

multiple udjat eye amulet, a square openwork udjat eye with black 

details, a miniature openwork udjat eye bead, a square stylised triad 

amulet, an Amarna dark blue pendant in the shape of a Hathor head 

and a bead necklace, 1.5cm-5.7cm long; together with a small shabti, 

Not Ancient (9) 

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descent. 

£200-£300 


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THREE ANCIENT HARDSTONE AMULETS 

Circa 2nd-1st Millennium B.C. 

Including an Egyptian steatite heart amulet, New Kingdom, circa 1550- 

1070 B.C., 27mm long; and two Mesopotamian calcite duck weights, 

circa early 1st Millennium B.C., 19mm-20mm long (3) 

Provenance: Hugh Stanley Russell (1924-2000) Collection, acquired 

between 1950s-1970s. Gifted to the current owner in 1972. 

£80-£120 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION AND GLASS BEADS 

Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom, circa 2133-1070 B.C. 

Including spacer mummy beads, tubular beads, disc-shaped beads, 

and composite examples, in red, yellow, blue, white and turquoise, 

2mm-20mm long (a lot) 

Provenance: German private collection, Bavaria, formed prior to 1980. 

£150-£250 

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AN EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEAD NECKLACE 

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, circa 1550-1295 B.C. 

Composed of bi-conical blue and turquoise beads, interspersed with 

disc spacer beads, thirteen poppy seed-pod pendants, six fruit 

pendants, four Hathor head pendants, one Bes pendant and another 

moulded as a scarab 

Provenance: Bernard C. Pickard Collection, England, acquired in the 

1970s. 

£300-£500 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS 


Barrel-shaped, in different shades of turquoise, green and blue, approx 

15mm-20mm long (a lot) 

Provenance: French private collection, Mr Haumont, acquired in the 

1970s. 

£150-£250 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN BRIGHT BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION 

BEADS 

New Kingdom, circa 1550-1070 B.C. 

Of fine tubular shape, approx 15mm-20mm long (a lot) 


1970s. 

£200-£300 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN MISCELLANEOUS BEADS 


Including a quantity of spacer mummy beads in different colours with 

some miniature examples, some conjoined and multiple disc beads, 

some turquoise examples, and a group of glass and carnelian beads of 

different shape, approx 1mm-15mm long (a lot) 

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Including miniature blue spacer beads, mummy beads in assorted 

colours and a group of tubular beads, approx 2mm-20mm long (a lot) 


1970s. 

£150-£250 

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Including green spacer mummy beads and several blue and turquoise 

tubular beads, approx 5mm-20mm long (a lot) 


1970s. 

£150-£250 

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A GROUP OF EGYPTIAN DARK BLUE GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS 


Of tubular shape, approx 20mm each (a lot) 


1970s. 

£150-£250 

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A LARGE GROUP OF EGYPTIAN GLAZED COMPOSITION BEADS 


Green, yellow, white, red and turquoise beads, including spacer 

mummy beads, tubular and composite examples (a lot) 

Provenance: German private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia, 

formed in the 1970s. 

£200-£300 

Provenance: German private collection, Bavaria, formed prior to 1980. 

£200-£300 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF IHY 


The god depicted standing nude, wearing the double crown with the 

sidelock of youth, the eyes inlaid with silver, striding forward, the right 

arm stretched out holding a now-missing sistrum, 16cm high 

Provenance: Asian private collection of Mr A.G., acquired in the 1970s. 

With Jaume Bagot, Barcelona. 

Literature: the god Ihy was the son of Horus and the goddess Hathor, 

often associated with the site of Dendera in Upper Egypt. He is 

represented holding the sistrum in honour of his mother. 

£5,000-£7,000 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE HEAD OF OSIRIS 


Wearing the Hedjet crown of Upper Egypt decorated with central 

uraeus, 8.5cm high 



£600-£800 

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THREE EGYPTIAN ARTEFACTS 


Including a bronze figure of Osiris, with incised details of the broad 

collar and the plumed headdress, 16.5cm high; a small turquoise 

glazed composition shabti, 6.2cm high; and a mummy bead necklace, 

restrung (3) 

Provenance: English private collection, Mr M. Vaughan, London, 

formed in the 1970s-1980s. 

£800-£1,200 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS AND HORUS 


The seated goddess wearing a sun disc headdress, holding the 

suckling infant Horus on her lap, 9cm high 

Provenance: American private collection, Mr J.A., New Jersey, formed 

in the last 50 years. 

£300-£400 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS 


The mummiform god holding the crook and flail, wearing the plumed 

headdress, on integral base, 19cm high 

Provenance: American private collection, Mr J.A., New Jersey, formed 

in the last 50 years. 

£400-£600 


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TWO EGYPTIAN BRONZE DEITIES 

Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C. 

A bronze bust of Horus as Emperor, the falcon-headed deity wearing a 

tripartite wig, surmounted by a crown, 8.5cm high; and a bronze figure 

of Harpokrates, in typical stance, depicted with a sidelock and index 

finger extended towards the mouth, 10.8cm high (2) 

Provenance: Collection of John Ward F.S.A (1832-1912), Egyptologist 

and author of volumes including Pyramids and Progress, Sketches from 

Egypt, 1900; Our Sudan. Its Pyramids and Progress, 1905; and The 

Sacred Beetle. Thence by descent. 

Accompanied by copies of various photographs and a postcard from 

1904. 

£500-£700 

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A SMALL EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS 


Holding the crook and the flail, wearing the plumed headdress, 10.5cm 

high 

Provenance: purchased at Fieldings, Stourbridge, 8 September 2012, 

lot 668. H. O’Brien Collection, purchased in Cairo in 1935. 

£80-£120 

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF OSIRIS 


Depicted in typical mummiform posture, his hands emerging from a 

tightly-wrapped long cloak to hold the crook and flail, with incised detail 

of a heart amulet on a string suspended from his hands, 14.9cm high 

Provenance: Arthur Gardner Lewis (13 March 1874 - 4 November 1948) 

Collection, Hancock, Massachusetts, thence by descent. 

£400-£600 

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AN EGYPTIAN WOOD SARCOPHAGUS 

MASK 


With added black pupils, cosmetic lines and 

eyebrows, 20cm high 

Provenance: Bonhams, London, 23 May 

2012, lot 308 (part). English private collection, 

formed between the 1920s-1970s. 

£800-£1,200 

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE CANOPIC JAR STOPPER 


Polychrome painted, in the shape of the human-headed Son of Horus, 

Imsety, wearing a striated wig, 11cm high 



£700-£900 

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A COLLECTION OF COPTIC AND ISLAMIC TEXTILE FRAGMENTS AND 

FOUR EGYPTIAN MINIATURE SHABTIS 

Circa Late Period to Islamic Period 

Including a selection of approximately twenty-six polychrome textile 

fragments, some decorated with floral motifs, fish and geometric 

patterns, approx 10cm-28cm long; and four miniature shabtis, one of 

bright blue glazed composition and the other three in terracotta, 4.5cm- 

5.5cm (30) 

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Provenance: Tadeusz Dzierzykray-Rogalski (1910-1998) Collection, 

formed in Egypt in the 1960s-1970s. Prof Dzierzykray-Rogalski, together 

with his wife, the anthropologist Elzbieta Prominska (1941-1998), 

devolved their career to the study of ancient human remains and 

paleopathology, joining several expeditions to Egypt and Sudan with 

UNESCO, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and other 

prominent research institutions. Part of his work was published in ‘The 

Bishops of Faras: an anthropological-medical study’ in 1985. 

£200-£300 


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TWO EGYPTIAN ‘NILE SILT WARE’ JARS 

Late Period to Ptolemaic, circa 664-32 B.C. 

With elongated ovoid body and straight long rim, 28cm-30cm high (2) 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased at a Paris auction 

circa 1998. 

£150-£250 

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A COPTIC TERRACOTTA VESSEL 

Circa 4th-7th Century A.D. 

With squat globular body, decorated with three bands of waves below 

the rim in black paint over red slip, 13.5cm high 

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Provenance: English private collection, purchased from a Paris auction 

house circa 1998. 

£100-£200 

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THREE COPTIC WOOD KOHL VESSELS 

Circa 6th Century A.D. 

Including one of spherical shape with flat base, one cylindrical vessel 

with slightly flaring base, the lid missing, and another narrow cylindrical 

lidded container flaring at both ends, all decorated with grooves, 3.2cm- 

4.6cm high (3) 

Provenance: English private collection of Surgeon Commander Peter 

Grey RN (d.1990), well-known Egyptologist, and his wife Ann Gray née 

Churchill. 

£350-£450 

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FIVE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN OR COPTIC IRON BRACELETS 

Circa 3rd-6th Century A.D. 

All decorated with notches, 4.3cm-4.8cm diam (5) 

Provenance: purchased from Phillips, London, in the 1980s. 

£70-£90 

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The following twenty-six lots (50-75) are from the collection of 

Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974). 

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SIX MESOPOTAMIAN HARDSTONE AMULETS 

Late Uruk - Jemdet Nasr Period, circa 3000-2900 B.C. 

Including one of pink stone in the shape of a striding boar; a small 

example of a trussed piglet; a large red stone amulet of a cow; another 

pink stone pig; a pendant in the shape of a double fish; and a quartzite 

bird amulet, all pierced for suspension, 2.3cm-5.5cm long (6) 

Provenance: Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) collection; and 

thence by descent to the present owner. 

The striding boar, the piglet and the bird: reputedly from the collection of 

the archaeologist Ernest J. H. Mackay (1880-1943), Bristol. The striding 

boar and the bird inscribed in black ink with ‘Madain Tello’, or Tell al- 

Madain. 

£1,000-£1,500 

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FOUR MESOPOTAMIAN HARDSTONE CYLINDER SEALS 

Circa 3300-1700 B.C. 

Including a Jemdet Nasr red stone example, in the drill-hole technique, 

with two rows of spouted pots, with two bulls’ heads in the field, 21mm x 

21mm; a Babylonian lapis lazuli example showing an enthroned horned 

deity facing an adorant, a crescent in the background, inscribed with 

three columns of text, 18mm x 9mm; another Babylonian black steatite 

cylinder seal carved with a buchranium and a quadruped and a snake 

separated by columns of geometric designs, 19mm x 8mm; and a 

Syrian haematite seal showing three adorants facing a combined 

crescent and sun disc over a papyrus flanked by two ibex heads, 20mm 

x 11mm (4) 



The Syrian haematite seal was offered at Christie’s, London, 6 July 

1994, lot 160. 

£800-£1,200 


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SIX MESOPOTAMIAN AMULETS 

Late Uruk - Jemdet Nasr Period, circa 3300-2900 B.C. 

Including an aragonite amulet in the shape of a fish, another example in 

the shape of a vulture, and another in the shape of a cockerel, 2.4cm- 

7.8cm long; together with three lapis lazuli pendants, one in the form of 

a lion and two of bull’s horns, all with round white inlays, some missing, 

15mm-19mm long (6) 



£400-£600 

53 

THREE MESOPOTAMIAN HARDSTONE AMULETS 

Jemdet Nasr, circa 3300-2900 B.C. 

Including a banded calcite vulture, drilled with several holes at the back, 

pierced vertically, 3.5cm long; a small white stone couchant calf, 

engraved with a star and a cross on the underside, 2.4cm long; and a 

steatite couchant deer with round drilled eyes, 4.2cm long (3) 



£400-£600 

54 

FIVE ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HARDSTONE AMULETS 

Circa 3rd-1st Millennium B.C. 

Including a Jemdet Nasr chalcedony rodent, and a white quartz 

couchant cow, circa 3300-2900 B.C., 22mm-30mm long; a carnelian 

frog pendant, a banded agate frog, sitting with the head pointing up, 

and a rock crystal bird, 19mm-23mm; and a garnet rhino, Not Ancient 

(6) 



£400-£600 

55 

SIX ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN HARDSTONE SEALS 

Circa 3rd Millennium B.C. to 5th Century A.D. 

Including a Jemdet Nasr red stone seal in the drill-hole technique 

showing two human figures and dots in the field, 35mm diam, another in 

black stone of rhomboidal shape with a geometric pattern, 39mm long, 

a conical example in steatite engraved cross motif, 15mm diam, and a 

large rectangular steatite seal decorated with two ibexes, 4.3cm x 

3.3cm; a red stone conical stamp seal engraved with two stags têtebêche, 

13mm diam; and a Sasanian domed seal engraved with a horse, 

21mm diam (6) 



£400-£600 

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56 

56 

A MESOPOTAMIAN BLACK 

STEATITE RECUMBENT RAM 

Late Uruk - Jemdet Nasr 

Period, circa 3300-2900 B.C. 

Reclining, with elongated head 

and curled horns, the eyes 

hollow for now-missing inlays, 

9cm long 

Provenance: Colonel Norman 

Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) 

collection; and thence by 

descent to the present owner. 

£1,500-£2,500 

57 

57 

A MESOPOTAMIAN GYPSUM 

FEMALE HEAD 

Sumerian, Early Dynastic, circa 

2500-2300 B.C. 

With over-sized almond-shaped 

eyes and serene smile, the finelycarved 

hair tied with a fillet into a 

chignon at the back, 5.5cm high 

Provenance: Colonel Norman 

Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) 

collection; and thence by 

descent to the present owner. 

£2,000-£3,000 


58 

60 

61 

62 

58 

TWO ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STONE VESSELS 

Circa 2nd-1st Millennium B.C. 

Including a black steatite cosmetic vessel, of rectangular shape with 

concave interior, decorated with geometric incised motifs on the exterior, 

the handle in the shape of a stylised human head, 9cm long; and a 

Mesopotamian calcite round tripod dish, the shallow bowl supported by 

three stump feet, 8cm diam 



£400-£600 

59 

No Lot 

60 

A LURISTAN BRONZE BRACELET 

Iran, circa 9th-7th Century B.C. 

Finely decorated with incised bands of semi-circles within rectangles, 

with zig zag along the borders, the terminals in the shape of an ibex 

head with long ears and curved horns, 6.8cm diam 



£300-£500 

61 

A CAUCASIAN BRONZE OPENWORK BELT BUCKLE 

Circa 6th-5th Century B.C. 

Depicting a stag with branched antlers, the head twisting back, with a 

stylised bird between its legs, framed within a rectangular rope-like 

border, with an attachment hoop and hook at the back, 9.3cm long 



Literature: for a similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, cf. 

O. W. Muscarella, ‘Bronze and Iron’, New York, 1988, p. 440, pl. 582. 

£600-£800 

62 

THREE MIGRATION PERIOD ARTEFACTS 


Including a Frankish or Hunnic bronze buckle, the plate and the loop 

decorated with blue, red and clear glass inlays, 4.5cm long; and two 

Ostrogothic gilt silver attachments in the shape of a bird with curved 

beak, with a round red glass inlay for the eye and attachment hoops on 

the reverse, 2.3cm-2.5cm long (3) 



£400-£600 

20

63 

A EUROPEAN BRONZE SPEAR HEAD 

Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-750 B.C. 

Finely patinated, with leaf-shaped blade and full-length mid-rib, the 

socket finely decorated with incised geometric motifs and lines of dots, 

10cm long 

63 



£300-£500 

64 

65 

64 

TWO CLASSICAL TERRACOTTA VESSELS 

Circa 1300-1000 B.C. 

Including a Mycenaean chalice, on a high flared foot, with hemispherical 

bowl and twin handles, decorated with red slip over the rim and 

handles, with parallel stripes over the stem and foot, a band of repeated 

double spirals on the body, 16.5cm high; together with a Cypriot early 

Geometric handled cup with flaring mouth, decorated with two 

chequered triangles and bands on the exterior, chequered squares on 

the base of the foot and circles on the interior, 13cm diam (2) 

Provenance: Dr Charles Seltman (1886-1957) Collection, UK. The 

Mycenaean chalice from Arcolis, Crete. Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. 

(1893-1974) collection; and thence by descent to the present owner. 

£800-£1,200 

65 

A GREEK BLACK GLAZED OINOCHOE 

South Italian, circa 4th Century B.C. 

With elegant broad shoulders and ovoid body, and arching handle 

joining the trefoil lip, 12cm high 



£250-£350 


66 

67 

68 

66 

A HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA FIGURE OF A WRESTLER 

Possibly from Smyrna, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. 

Depicted with grotesque features, bald head and muscular body, 

wearing a loincloth, 11cm high 



£300-£500 

67 

A HELLENISTIC TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A YOUTH 

Circa 1st Century B.C./A.D. 

Finely moulded with handsome features, wearing a laurel wreath over 

short curly hair, 6cm long 

68 

A GROUP OF CLASSICAL TERRACOTTAS 

Circa 7th Century B.C. - 3rd Century A.D. 

Including a Cypriot bust of a male worshipper, a Greek kore protome 

fragment, a Greek Archaic bust of a kore, a Phoenician fertility figure, a 

Greek antefix decorated with the head of a satyr, and a small Roman 

horse appliqué with saddle and harness, 6cm-11cm high (6) 


thence by descent to the present owner. The horse appliqué’ previously 

in the A.B. Cook Collection. 

£500-£700 



£300-£500 

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69 

70 

71 72 

69 

A CELT-IBERIAN BRONZE ANTHROPOMORPHIC FINIAL 

Circa 3rd-1st Century B.C. 

The slender highly stylised figure with large eyes and smiling face, the 

long hair combed backwards, 9cm long 



£500-£700 

70 

TWO COPTIC BONE ARTEFACTS 


Including a whistle decorated with dot-and-circles, 7cm long, and an 

open-work plaque with a row of stylised birds, 4.8cm long; together with 

a Roman silver fibula, circa 2nd Century A.D., the catchplate decorated 

with incised triangles, the terminal of the bow looped back and formed 

into the protome of a horse’s head, 4.5cm long; and a piece of amber 

(4) 



£300-£500 

71 

A MINOAN BANDED AGATE SEAL 


Of lentoid shape, pierced for suspension, engraved with a winged 

griffin, 29mm diam 



Literature: for a similar example in chalcedony engraved with a winged 

griffin, found at Avdou Pediados, cf. C. Zervos, L’Art de la Crete 

Neolithique et Minoenne, France, 1956, pl.677. 

£400-£600 

72 

AN ETRUSCAN CARNELIAN SCARAB 

Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C. 

Engraved on the underside with a winged lion, the wing-case damaged, 

16mm long; together with a Roman carnelian intaglio of a draped male 

figure, 13mm long (2) 



£150-£200 


73 

73 

TWO PERSIAN SEALS 

Qajar, circa 20th Century A.D. 

Including an oval carnelian example and a prismatic glass seal with 

three faces, both with inscriptions, 17mm-30mm long (2) 



£300-£500 

74 

THREE PRE-COLUMBIAN ARTEFACTS 

Including two gold ornaments, possibly Tairona, Columbia, the two 

discs formed by a coiled thread, with added suspension hoops at the 

back, each 13mm diam; together with a green stone bird amulet, 

Mexico, 4cm high (2) 



£200-£300 

74 

75 

A VERACRUZ TERRACOTTA SMILING HEAD, MEXICO 


Hollow-moulded, the broad face with typical smiling open mouth and 

almond-shaped eyes, wearing a flat head crest decorated with 

modelled geometric ornaments and a pair of round earrings, 15cm high 



£300-£500 

75 

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76 

77 

79 

78 

Other Properties 

76 

A BACTRIAN CHLORITE HANDLED WEIGHT 

Circa late 3rd Millennium - early 2nd Millennium B.C. 

Of rectangular shape with overarching handle, finely engraved on one 

side with two crouching lions, feeding on a calf, with two scorpions 

encircled by the lions’ tails; with geometric motifs on the other side, 

possibly representing a town, 18cm high 

Provenance: UK collection, London, acquired in the late 1980s. 

£900-£1,200 

77 

TWO BACTRIAN CHLORITE CONTAINERS 

Circa late 3rd Millennium - early 2nd Millennium B.C. 

Both of cylindrical shape, decorated with engraved bands of ‘bricks’, the 

largest with a central band of zig zag, 8.5cm and 10cm diam (2) 


£350-£450 

78 

TWO MESOPOTAMIAN CALCITE VESSELS 

Circa 3rd Millennium B.C. 

Including a bowl with ribs over and below the rim and a single lug 

handle, 11cm diam; and a shallow dish, the handle in the shape of a 

bird’s head, 8.5cm diam (2) 


£250-£350 

79 

TWO BACTRIAN BANDED CALCITE BOWLS 

Circa late 3rd - early 2nd Millennium B.C. 

Of conical shape with flat base, 8cm diam (2) 

Provenance: UK collection, London, acquired on the German art 

market in the 1980s. 

£300-£400 


80 

81 

82 

80 

A LARGE PERSIAN POTTERY STORAGE VESSEL 

Iran, circa 3rd Millennium B.C. 

Red burnished, decorated with in black paint with a band of zig zag at 

the shoulder and pairs of elongated triangles below, filled with zig zag, 

with flat base and slightly everted rim, 39cm high 

Provenance: UK collection, purchased on the Paris art market in circa 

2000. 

£1,500-£2,000 

81 

A PERSIAN FRAGMENTARY ANTHROPOMORPHIC POTTERY JAR 

Iran, circa early 2nd Millennium B.C. 

Probably from a tripod vessel, decorated in umber slip with bands of 

geometric patterns, the large male protome with stylised features, 

wearing a peaked helmet and large upturned pointy boots, the rest of 

the vessel reconstructed with modern restoration, 38cm high 

Provenance: Christie’s, London, 25 October 2006, lot 30. UK collection 


£500-£700 

82 

AN ANATOLIAN ‘MINYAN WARE’ TERRACOTTA JUG 

Circa mid-2nd Millennium B.C. 

With flat base, globular body, flaring mouth and one handle, 15.5cm 

high 

Provenance: Bonhams, 1 May 2008, lot 361 (part). West Country 

private collection, UK. 

£80-£120 

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83 

84 

85 

83 

A GROUP OF HOLY LAND AND NORTH AFRICAN POTTERY VESSELS 

Circa 1st Millennium B.C. - 4th Century A.D. 

Including a Bronze Age double-handled vessel with red geometric 

decoration, 14cm high; two Roman small transport amphorae with 

ribbed conical body, 29cm high; two Roman terra sigillata red slip ware 

vessels, 21cm-22cm high; a small cup, two ribbed vessels, four bottles, 

an oil lamp and a fragment of a plaque moulded with a horse in relief, 

7cm-20cm high (15) 

Provenance: English private collection, Mr & Mrs Balfour-Paul, acquired 

whilst working in the Middle East between the 1960s and the early 

1970s. 

£300-£500 

86 

84 

TWO ANCIENT TERRACOTTA VESSELS 

Including an Ancient Near Eastern red slip bowl with added wave 

decoration below the rim, circa 1st Millennium B.C., 27.5cm diam; and a 

Chinese pottery vessel, Neolithic Period, circa 3rd Millennium B.C., 

24cm high; together with a terracotta askos, Not Ancient 


£150-£200 

85 

THREE ANCIENT BRONZE ITEMS 

Circa 2nd Millennium B.C. - 2nd Century A.D. 

Including a Sumerian head, 2.2cm high; a stylised Amlash stag, Iran, 

6.5cm long; and a Roman bronze ring with glass oval gem, ring size ‘E’ 

(3) 

Provenance: UK collection, London, acquired in the late 1980s - early 

1990s. 

£200-£300 

86 

FOUR ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN BRONZE STAMP SEALS 

Iran, circa 2nd - early 1st Millennium B.C. 

Including two Bactrian examples with ring at the back, one partially 

openwork, 3.8cm-4.2cm diam; and two Luristan seals with cross motifs, 

4.2cm-5.1cm diam (4) 

87 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired in London in the 

1970s. 

£150-£200 

87 

A HITTITE-STYLE BRONZE ANIMAL FINIAL 

8.5cm high 

£200-£300 


89 

90 

88 

91 

92 

88 

TWO ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AMULETS 

Circa 1st Millennium B.C. Including a Levantine shell amulet in the form 

of a fish, with stylised eye and fins, the body decorated with drilled holes 

for now-missing inlays, 8cm long; and an Ancient Near Eastern 

haematite amulet or game-piece, 3.8cm high (2) 

Provenance: Hayford Peirce (1885-1946) Collection, Paris and Bangor, 

Maine, formed in the 1910s-1930s, thence by descent. 

£200-£400 

89 

A LURISTAN BRONZE MACEHEAD 


Of tubular shape, composed of three panels with bands of chevrons in 

relief, 24.5cm long 

Provenance: German private collection, Cologne, formed in the 1980s. 

£300-£400 

90 

A LURISTAN BRONZE AXEHEAD 


The ribbed socket decorated with four spikes, the flaring blade with 

flanges, 19cm long 


£200-£300 

91 

A LURISTAN BRONZE SWORD 


With tapering blade, flanged guard and grip with lobed pommel, 35cm 

long 


£150-£250 

92 

A LURISTAN BRONZE SPEARHEAD 


With leaf-shaped blade, raised mid-rib and long tang with curved 

terminal, 41cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, London, acquired in the 1990s. 

£150-£200 

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93 

TWO SOUTH ARABIAN CALCITE 

FRAGMENTS 

Circa 3rd Century B.C. - 2nd Century 

A.D. 

Including the base for a small stele 

inscribed in Qatabanian for the 

deceased, 15.5cm long; and the feet 

and integral plinth from the statuette 

of a dedicant, 9cm long (2) 

93 

Provenance: English private 

collection, Mr C. Wightman, received 

as a gift from an RAF colleague 

before he retired in 1980. Both were 

posted in South Arabia, Aden and the 

Middle East in the 1960s. 

£200-£300 

94 

THREE PARTHIAN GREEN GLAZED 

POTTERY VESSELS 

Iran, circa 2nd-4th Century A.D. 

Including a large pilgrim’s flask with 

lentoid body and pointed handles, 

another pilgrim’s flask with round flat 

body and ear handles, and a small 

flask with spherical body slightly 

pointed at the base, 25cm-10cm high 

(3) 

94 

Provenance: UK private collection, 

formed in the 1960s. 

£300-£400 

95 

A FATIMID WOVEN SILK AND LINEN 

FRAGMENT (TIRAZ) 

Egypt, 11th/12th Century A.D. 

Of rectangular form, in mustard 

yellow, red and blue with a central 

band of roundels containing animals 

flanked by bands of pseudo Kufic 

and lozenge motifs, 70cm x 17cm 

Provenance: Hayford Peirce (1885- 

1946) Collection, Paris and Bangor, 

Maine, formed in the 1910s-1930s, 

thence by descent. 

£1,000-£1,500 

95 


97 

96 

98 

99 

96 

A LARGE EARLY ISLAMIC UNGLAZED SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY 

STORAGE JAR, CENTRAL ASIA 


With twin handles with applied bowls with ring handles, decorated in 

black slip with intricate geometric motifs over the shoulder, the neck 

decorated with encircled peacocks and cross-hatching below the wide 

rim, 48cm high 

Provenance: German private collection, acquired between 1972 and 

1974. 

£300-£500 

97 

AN EARLY ISLAMIC UNGLAZED SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY AMPHORA, 

CENTRAL ASIA 


Decorated with intricate floral and abstract motifs and rope designs, 

with two applied snakes perching over the handles, their head peeking 

inside the flaring mouth of the vessel, the handles and body inlaid with 

irregular turquoise glaze fragments, 36cm high 


1974. 

£200-£300 

98 

AN EARLY ISLAMIC UNGLAZED SLIP-PAINTED POTTERY EWER, 

CENTRAL ASIA 


Decorated with an applied rope at the shoulder, three lug handles 

around the neck and a stylised snake above the wide rope handle, the 

upper half of the spherical body and the neck painted with elaborate 

abstract motifs encircling birds, 44.5cm high 


1974. 

£150-£250 

99 

A GROUP OF EARLY ISLAMIC UNGLAZED POTTERY VESSELS, 

CENTRAL ASIA 


Including a storage jar with ribs over the shoulder, decorated with red, 

black and white slip, showing three winged demons over the body, 

31cm high; a jug in the shape of a cockerel, with a spout at the head 

and a strainer for the tail, 31.5cm high; a small jug with a strainer at the 

base of the spout, 16cm high; and three red clay vessels, one with the 

spout moulded in the shape of a lion, 10cm-12cm high (6) 


1974. 

£150-£250 

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100 

101 

102 

100 

A KASHAN LUSTRE POTTERY STAR TILE 

Persia, 12th-13th Century 

In the shape of an eight-pointed star, decorated with a feline on a floral 

background, the border with a band of script, 20.5cm wide; together 

with a small Persian juglet decorated with birds, 7cm high (2) 



1970s. 

£1,000-£1,500 

101 

A KASHAN MONOCHROME MOULDED POTTERY EWER 

Persia, 12th Century 

With moulded floral decoration over the shoulder, under a turquoise 

glaze, 24cm high 

Provenance: Jacques Desenfans Collection. Bonhams, 9 June 2010, 

lot 61. 

£150-£250 

102 

A LARGE KASHAN TURQUOISE GLAZED TILE 


Of hexagonal shape, 29cm long 

£150-£250 


103 

104 

105 

106 

107 

103 

A TIMURID CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE FRAGMENT 

Persia, early 14th Century 

Of slightly convex shape, decorated in polychrome with floral and foliate 

design, 22cm long 

£150-£200 

104 

A BOKHARA COPPER EWER 

Central Asia, 18th Century 

On flaring foot, the fluted piriform body decorated with repoussé floral 

decoration, 29cm high 

£80-£120 

105 

A LARGE GLAZED POTTERY DISH, CENTRAL ASIA 

Possibly Bukhara, 18th-19th Century 

Decorated with green and black glaze on cream background, with a 

plant in the centre and a band of floral motifs around the rim, 33cm 

diam 

£80-£120 

106 

TWO MOROCCAN POTTERY DISHES 

Late 19th - early 20th Century 

The largest decorated with blue glaze on white background, the other 

with polychrome decoration, 22.5cm-28cm diam (2) 

£150-£200 

107 

A CHANAKKALE POTTERY DISH 

Turkey, 19th Century 

Decorated with floral motifs in brown on a cream background, 22.5cm 

diam 

£150-£200 

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108 

109 

111 

110 

108 

A MUGHAL TINNED COPPER HUQQA BASE WITH INSCRIPTION 

Northern India, 17th Century 

The piriform body finely decorated with floral motifs, engraved with two 

bands of text for a poem about smoking, ‘The qalyan becomes excellent 

in your hand/ The pipe (cane) becomes sugar cane in your mouth/ From 

your ruby-red bud-like lips, the little stick (?) of the qalyan/ From your 

sweet lips the entire pipe will become sugar cane’, 35cm high 

£300-£400 

109 

A QAJAR BRASS TORCH STAND ELEMENT 


Decorated with horned demons, dog-headed figures and other seated 

male and female figures, with floral motifs and birds in the background, 

two bands of pseudo-text at the top and the bottom of the scene, 23cm 

high; together with an Ottoman or North African steel stirrup, engraved 

on the sides with floral and geometric motifs, 18th-19th Century, 19cm 

high (2) 

£100-£150 

110 

A QAJAR BRASS-INLAID STEEL BIRD 


With etched and inlaid decoration, with a flower over its chest and two 

peacocks on the fan tail, 23.5cm high 

£150-£200 

111 

A LARGE GILT BRASS REPOUSSÉ TRAY, MALAYSIA 

Late 19th Century 

With scalloped raised rim, the repoussé decoration with chased and 

incised details on a ring-matted ground, showing a soldier fighting a lion 

in the centre, surrounded by a circle of female dancers on floral ground, 

the border with foliage, 49.5cm diam 

£300-£400 


114 

112 

113 

The following thirty-four lots (112-145) are from the estate of the late 

Christopher Sheppard, London. 

112 

AN ANCIENT PALE GREEN STONE SHALLOW DISH 

Possibly Egypt or Mesopotamia 

Round and shallow, with thick walls, 9cm diam 

Provenance: from the estate of the late Christopher Sheppard, London, 

acquired pre-1988. 

£500-£700 

113 

THREE HELLENISTIC GLASS BOWLS 

Circa 2nd Century B.C. 

One in amber glass, of hemispherical shape with slightly indented base, 

decorated with two wheel-cut grooves below the rim, 10.2cm diam; the 

other in olive green glass, of hemispherical shape with two wheel-cut 

grooves below the rim, 12.5cm diam; and another in pale yellow glass, 

hemispherical, with old collection label on the base ‘99’, 14cm diam (3) 

114 

A GREEK CORE-FORMED GLASS AMPHORA 

Eastern Mediterranean, circa 2nd-1st Century B.C. 

Of dark green glass, decorated with opaque pale blue spiral trail around 

the neck and the shoulder, combed into festoons alternating with 

opaque red glass over the body, then resuming into a spiral to tip, the 

added base knop and the handles in transparent yellow glass, repaired 

from fragments, 16.5cm high 

Provenance: from the estate of the late Christopher Sheppard, London. 

£300-£400 


The yellow and olive green glass bowls, Bonhams, 1 April 2014, lot 153. 

English private collection, acquired in the 1980s. 

£400-£600 

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116 

115 

115 

A ROMAN MOSAIC GLASS PATELLA CUP 

Circa late 1st Century B.C. - early 1st Century A.D. 

With double-convex profile and added ring foot, the composite mosaic 

pattern composed of different canes, the majority with an opaque 

rosette with yellow core encircled by a red ring and several white petals 

within a white circle on a translucent aubergine background, and some 

sections of a translucent green rosette on an opaque yellow 

background, 10cm diam 


£800-£1,200 

116 

A LATE HELLENISTIC GOLD-BAND MOSAIC GLASS ALABASTRON 


Composed of amber, green, blue and opaque white bands, with two 

bands of clear glass enclosing a gold leaf, forming vertical waves from 

the rounded base to the cut-off rim, 13cm high 


Literature: the neck of this type of alabastra was a separately-mould 

and removable element of monochrome glass, which is now missing 

from this example. For a complete example in the Metropolitan 

Museum, cf. inv. no. 17.194.286a,b. 

£800-£1,200 


117 

119 

118 

120 

117 

A GROUP OF ANCIENT GLASS FRAGMENTS 

Circa 2nd Century B.C. - 4th Century A.D. 

Including a Roman clear glass fragment of a bottle with flaring neck, the 

shoulder with wheel-cut engraving ‘C...EYCTOP....EZ’, circa 4th Century 

A.D., 6.5cm high, and a similar other fragment inscribed ‘...PISIDLOI...’, 

4.7cm long; a Hellenistic blue glass bowl fragment, with wheel-cut 

bands, 2nd Century B.C., 6.5cm high; a highly fragmentary Hellenistic 

core-formed glass amphoriskos, circa 2nd-1st Century B.C.; a 

Hellenistic blue glass oval cabochon, 35mm long; together with some 

fragments of modern engraved glass, a glass cameo, a rock crystal 

intaglio of Nike and a rock crystal Egyptian revival figure, Not Ancient (a 

lot) 


The wheel-cut engraved fragment, Christie’s, New York, Ancient Glass 

formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection, 3 June 1999, lot 218 (part). 

Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no. 146. The blue glass bowl 

fragment, Henry Wallis RWS Collection (1830-1916), the Pre-Raphaelite 

painter, writer and collector. 

£150-£200 

118 

THREE ROMAN MOSAIC GLASS FACE BEADS 


One of opaque red glass, the central band with alternating faces and 

rosettes, another in opaque red glass with busts and multi-coloured 

squares, and an example in opaque bright green with faces and multicoloured 

boxes, 13mm-15mm diam (3) 


£150-£200 

119 

A LARGE ROMAN GREEN GLASS JUG 

Circa 3rd Century A.D. 

With added strap handle and ring foot, the neck decorated with a trail 

spiral, 25.5cm high 


£150-£250 

120 

A ROMAN GREEN GLASS JAR 


The body decorated with a row of indentations below the shoulder, with 

two applied handles, 13.5cm high 


£100-£200 

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122 

121 

123 

124 

121 

TWO ROMAN GREEN GLASS DOUBLE BALSAMARIA 


One example with conjoined fluted vials and added green glass overarching 

handle with opaque dark red striation, 16.5cm high; another 

example with wavy handles applied to the sides, 12cm high; together 

with a bronze cosmetic implement, 13cm long (3) 


£300-£500 

122 

THREE ROMAN GLASS VESSELS 

Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D. 

Including a pale blue bottle with squat ribbed body; a green glass 

candlestick unguentarium; and a pale yellow glass bottle with thick 

walls, 14cm-23cm high (3) 


£200-£300 

123 


Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. 

Including an aubergine glass bird-shaped feeder, 7cm high; an 

aubergine glass bottle and an amber glass flask with piriform body, 



£150-£200 

124 


Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D. 

Including a pale green glass sprinkler, the hemispherical body mouldblown 

circles enclosed in hexagons, 11cm high; a green glass 

barrel-shaped jug with ribs at the shoulder and above the foot, 16cm 

high; and a pale green glass jug with fluted piriform body, 15cm high (3) 


£200-£300 


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126 

127 128 

129 

125 

FIVE ROMAN GLASS VESSELS 


Including a green glass jug with long neck and applied handle; and four 

other bottles, one with opalescent iridescence and ground down rim, 

8.5cm-15cm high (5) 


£150-£250 

126 

FOUR ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN GREEN GLASS BEAKERS 

Black Sea region, circa 1st-7th Century A.D. 

Including a carinated beaker with four bands of wheel-cut decoration, 

circa 1st Century A.D., 9.5cm high; and three beakers the wide mouth 

slightly constricted towards the base, 8cm-9.5cm high (4) 

Provenance: from the estate of the late Christopher Sheppard, London, 


£150-£250 

127 

A SASANIAN GREEN GLASS FACET-CUT BOWL 

Iran, circa 6th-7th Century A.D. 

The hemispherical bowl with six rows of hexagonal facets, and a row of 

circular facets around the base, 9cm diam 

128 

A COLLECTION OF ROMAN AND ISLAMIC GLASS MINIATURE 

VESSELS 


Including a Roman clear glass miniature flask, and ten Islamic miniature 

vessels including a green glass octagonal chalice, a bottle, a blue 

marbled glass poppy seed flask and a core-formed black and white 

square bottle, 2.8cm-3.8cm high; and five Islamic glass bangles, 5cm- 

9cm diam (16) 


£100-£200 

129 

FIVE ROMAN AND ISLAMIC GREEN GLASS VESSELS 


Including a sprinkler with vertical applied fins over the body; another 

sprinkler, mould-blown with spiral fluting on the body and dark blue 

applied handles; a small jar on three stump feet; a miniature bottle with 

globular body; and an Islamic bottle with flaring neck and indented 

base, 5cm-9cm high (5) 


£150-£200 


£300-£500 

38

130 

131 

132 

134 

130 

SEVEN ROMAN AND ISLAMIC GLASS VESSELS 

Circa 1st-12th Century A.D. 

Including a Roman pale blue flask with spiral trail decoration, 8.5cm 

high; two Roman marbled glass flasks, 7.5cm high; a Roman aubergine 

glass bottle with dimples on the body, 8cm high; and three Islamic 

flasks, one example with moulded body, 5.5cm-7cm high (7) 


£150-£200 

131 

A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF ISLAMIC AND LATER GLASS 

Including an Islamic moulded glass oil lamp, a flask moulded with lions 

on the body, a terracotta flask with insects moulded on the body, and 

three other Islamic fragmentary vessels; an Assyrian-style flask with a 

band of white, mustard and turquoise petals on the shoulder, Not 

Ancient; a Roman-style blue and white marbled glass flask, and a 

cinerarium lid, Not Ancient; a core-formed amphoriskos, Not Ancient; 

and a Phoenician-style core-formed head pendant, Not Ancient, 6cm- 

12cm high (11) 


£100-£200 

132 

A LARGE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT GLASS BEADS 

Roman to Islamic Period and later 

Including two Roman spherical beads inlaid with small round faces and 

red dots, a Phoenician yellow eye bead, a large Roman mosaic glass 

bead with multiple rosettes on green ground, and a large selection of 

mainly Islamic glass beads (a lot) 


£200-£300 

133 

A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF ANCIENT ARTEFACTS 

Including various Roman and Islamic glass vessels, some fragmentary, 

including a Roman misfired glass jar, three Islamic schist carvings, three 

Islamic glass seals, two Chinese glass beads, four Islamic glass beads, 

a group of Islamic glass rings, three bead necklaces, a Byzantine 

bronze weight engraved with a haloed figure, five flint arrowheads, and 

a variety of other items, Not Ancient (a lot) 


£100-£200 

134 

FIVE CHINESE BLUE GLASS ‘ERHTANG’ EAR SPOOLS 

Han Dynasty, circa 200 B.C./A.D. 

Flaring at both ends with narrow perforation at the centre, 14mm-21mm 

high (5) 


£100-£200 


135 

136 

137 

138 

135 

AN EGYPTIAN BANDED ALABASTER ALABASTRON 


With two small lug handles, the neck and rim missing, 15.5cm high 


£100-£200 

136 

A SMALL GRANITE EGYPTIAN-STYLE HEAD 

Depicting a bald male head, possibly a priest, 9cm high, Not Ancient 


£80-£120 

137 

TWO URARTIAN BRONZE GOBLETS 


On conical foot, the body decorated with two rows of hollow-cast 

spikes, 10.5cm-14.5cm high (2) 


£250-£350 

138 

A LURISTAN BRONZE SPOON 

Iran, circa 10th-7th Century A.D. 

With elongated and deep bowl, the handle gently curving towards the 

zoomorphic terminal, 27cm long 


£80-£120 

40

139 

140 

139 

A GREEK BRONZE OINOCHOE 


With angular shoulder and round beaded rim, the separately-cast overarching 

handle with a terminal in the shape of a palmette, 13.5cm high 

141 


£300-£400 

140 

A GNATHIAN WARE POTTERY OLPE 

Circa 4th Century B.C. 

With ribbed body, enlivened with red, white and yellow slip, decorated 

with a band of ivy around the shoulder and a band of bead-and-reel on 

the body, the handle in the form of a Herculean knot, 19cm high 


Purchased at Bonhams, London, 29 April 2005, lot 342. European 

private collection formed from the late 1950s. 

£250-£350 

141 

A SMALL GREEK RED-FIGURE PYXIS 


The body with concave sides and flat base, the interior with remains of 

glaze, the lid with raised border with later added decoration of a 

Medusa head, the body and lid possibly not belonging, 6.3cm diam 


Bonhams, London, 10 April 2000, lot 166. 

£150-£250 


142 

143 

144 

145 

142 

A GROUP OF ROMAN AND ROMANO-BRITISH BRONZE FIBULAE 


Including a Hod Hill example, a ‘Tutulus’ type, a large ‘trumpet’ brooch, 

a round example with enamel, and other examples, 3cm-10cm long; 

together with two Samnite bronze belt hooks with zoomorphic terminal, 

circa 4th Century B.C., 11cm long (9) 


The brooches purchased at Bonhams 29 April 2009, lot 296. Welsh 

private collection, acquired between the 1970s-2000s. Richard Hattatt 

Collection. 

Literature: for two similar examples of Samnite belt hooks in the shape 

of cicadas in the Harvard Art Museum, inv. no. 2012.1.107.A-C. 

£150-£250 

143 

A ROMAN SILVER-INLAID BRONZE CROSSBOW FIBULA 


With onion-shaped terminals at the openwork arm and one at the end of 

the bow, decorated with niello geometric motifs on a silver band, the 

plate with scrolled detail to the edges, 9cm long 


£100-£200 

144 

A GOLD AND GARNET RING 

The oval cabochon set in a high flaring bezel, the hoop with angular 

shoulders, 23mm length of gem, ring size ‘S’ 


£600-£800 

145 

A MEDIEVAL BRONZE ENAMELLED HERALDIC MOUNT 


The shield-shaped mount decorated with red enamel forming a cross, 

3.3cm long, mounted on a modern ring size ‘T’ 


£80-£120 

42

147 

146 

148 

149 


146 

TWO PHOENICIAN GLASS PENDANTS 


Including a head pendant, with trailed turban in blue, red, green and 

yellow, 18mm long; and an animal head pendant with added opaque 

red horns and applied white and black eyes, with suspension hoop, 

28mm long (2) 

Provenance: Michael Poulson (1947-1997) Collection, member of the 

Glass Circle, acquired in Germany in the early 1990s. 

£150-£250 

147 

A ROMAN PALE GREEN GLASS SPRINKLER FLASK 

Circa 3rd Century A.D. 

The piriform body decorated with fine spiral trailing, 12cm high 

Provenance: English private collection, London, acquired in New York 

in 1986. Bonhams, London, 26 April 2007, lot 264. 

£200-£300 

148 

A ROMAN WHEEL-CUT GREEN GLASS BOTTLE 

Eastern Mediterranean, circa 1st Century A.D. 

With thick-walled globular body, flat base and long neck with folded rim, 

decorated with the wheel-cut technique, with two parallel bands over the 

shoulder and a latticed pattern on the body, and five horizontal grooves 

of alternating width over the neck, 18.5cm high 

Provenance: Hayford Peirce (1885-1946) Collection, Paris and Bangor, 

Maine, formed in the 1910s-1930s, thence by descent. Acquired from J. 

Brummer, New York, in 1930. Accompanied by a copy of a handwritten 

inventory list by Mr Peirce listing the provenance ‘Brum’ and the date of 

purchase. 

£500-£700 

149 

A ROMAN GREEN GLASS BOTTLE 


The globular body moulded with fine vertical ribs, 15.5cm high 


Glass Circle, acquired in London in the 1980s-1990s. 

£200-£300 


150 151 

152 

153 154 

150 

A ROMAN GREEN GLASS UNGUENTARIUM 


With globular body and tall neck, with old label on the base ‘M Dish 

show case drawing room’, 16cm high 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased from Gerhard Hirsch 

Nachfolger, Munich, in the 1990s. 

£80-£120 

151 

A ROMAN PALE GREEN GLASS FLASK 


With piriform body and flaring neck, 18cm high 



£100-£150 

153 

A ROMAN PALE GREEN GLASS BOWL 


Of hemispherical shape with slight indentation on the base, 10cm diam 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased at Bonhams, 

London, 24 June 1998, lot 173. 

£150-£200 

154 

TWO ROMAN PALE GREEN GLASS CANDLESTICK UNGUENTARIA 


Including a bell unguentarium, 17cm high; and a another with wide 

base, 18cm high (2) 


Glass Circle, acquired in London in the 1980s. 

£250-£350 

152 

A ROMAN GLASS DIMPLED BEAKER 


Of almost colourless glass, the long cylindrical body impressed with 

three dimples, 12.5cm high 



£150-£200 

44

155 

156 

157 

158 

155 

TWO ROMAN CLEAR GLASS VESSELS 


Including a juglet with applied handle and spiral trail decoration, 8cm 

high; and a sprinkler of ribbed pomegranate shape, 7.5cm high (2) 

Provenance: the juglet purchased at Bonhams, London, 25 November 

1998, lot 117. The sprinkler, Michael Poulson (1947-1997) Collection, 

member of the Glass Circle, acquired in London in the 1980s-1990s. 

£200-£300 

156 

TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS 


Including a pale green glass aryballos with applied twin handles, 7cm 

high; and a juglet with trefoil lip and misshapen round body, 9.5cm high 

(2) 


Glass Circle, purchased at Phillips, London, 9 December 1996, lot 3 and 

lot 8. 

£200-£300 

157 

TWO ROMAN PALE GREEN GLASS DOUBLE BALSAMARIA 


Including an example with loop handle, 14.5cm high; and another with 

applied twin handles, 11.5cm high (2) 

Provenance: the one with overhead handle, purchased at Phillips, 

London, 3 December 1997, lot 261, ex Dr Stresnek Collection. The other 

example, purchased at Phillips, London, 27 November 2001, lot 56. 

£250-£350 

158 

TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS 


including an amber glass flask, with globular body and funnel mouth, 

11.5cm high; and a green glass flask with long vertical pinched ribs on 

the body, 7.5cm high (2) 

Provenance: Rudolf Birtel Collection, Neunkirchen, well-known German 

architect, purchased in 1977. The ribbed flask accompanied by a 

certificate of expertise from Galerie Gunter Puhze, Freiburg. 

£300-£500 


159 160 

161 

162 

159 

FOUR ROMAN GLASS VESSELS 


Including two unguentaria, 12cm-13.3cm high; a jarlet with spherical 

body decorated with pincered decoration, 6.5cm high; and a phial with 

piriform body, 9.5cm high (4) 

163 

Provenance: the phial, purchased at Bonhams, London, 24 June 1998, 

lot 179. The rest, Michael Poulson (1947-1997) Collection, member of 

the Glass Circle, acquired in London in the 1980s-1990s. 

£200-£300 

160 

SEVEN ROMAN GREEN GLASS VESSELS 


Including a squat jar with applied dark blue glass handles, and six 

unguentaria, 5.5cm-15cm high (7) 



1970s. 

£150-£250 

161 

AN ISLAMIC GREEN GLASS JUG 

Persia, circa 10th-13th Century 

The body mould-blown with a criss-cross pattern, with added trailed 

handle, 9.5cm high 



£100-£150 

162 

AN OTTOMAN BEYKOZ BLUE GLASS BIRD 

Turkey, 19th Century 

Decorated with polychrome and gilt flowers, 17cm long 

£100-£150 

163 

FIVE POST-MEDIEVAL GLASS APOTHECARY PHIALS 

England, circa 17th-18th Century 

With cylindrical bodies, 6cm-15cm high (5) 

Provenance: the largest found in the river Thames. The others 

excavated in Worcester in the 1960s. 

£100-£150 

46

165 164 

164 

A CYPRIOT RED POLISHED WARE JUG 

Early Bronze Age, circa 2600-2300 B.C. 

With long cut-out spout and impressed decoration, 48cm high 


1974. 

Literature: for a similar jug of the Cypriot Philia Culture now in the 

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia, cf. inv. no. 73.214.8. 

£700-£900 

165 

A CYPRIOT LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF HERAKLES AND THE 

NEMEAN LION 


Showing the nude torso of the hero in the act of wrestling the snarling 

lion, rearing up on its hind legs, 10cm high 

166 

Provenance: with Galerie Samarcande, Paris. Acquired on the German 

art market in 2000. Bonhams, London, 28 October 2009, lot 355. 

£600-£800 

166 

TWO CYPRIOT TERRACOTTA VESSELS 

Circa 1300-400 B.C. 

Including a Cypro-Myceanean jar decorated with bands of umber slip, 

10cm high; and another Cypro-Classical elongated jug, 17.5cm high (2) 

Provenance: English private collection of Mr Brian G. Pearson, acquired 

in the 1970s. 

£100-£200 


167 

169 

170 

167 

AN ATTIC BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS 


Decorated on both sides with three draped men in conversation, flanked 

by palmettes, 13cm diam excl. handles 

Provenance: property of a British nobleman, from a deceased estate 

from the West Country. 

£400-£600 

168 

FIVE GREEK TERRACOTTA ITEMS 


Including a miniature Corinthian exaleiptron decorated in crimson and 

umber, and a skyphos decorated with birds, now faded, both 8cm diam; 

a small draped figurine, 6.5cm high; an Attic black-figure lekythos 

decorated with draped figures, and a squat red-figure lekythos with 

tongues around the neck and the figure of a lyre player, 13cm high (5) 

Provenance: purchased by Elizabeth Cominos, née Papastratos, in 

Athens in the late 1940s, then in Paris and London. 

£300-£500 

169 

A GREEK TERRACOTTA PROTOME 

Archaic Period, circa 6th-5th Century B.C. 

Hollow-backed, with typical archaic features, pierced at the top for 

suspension, 10.5cm high 


market in the early 1990s. 

£80-£120 

170 

A PAIR OF GREEK BRONZE KANTHAROI 


With flaring mouth on raised foot, the two upturned handles with finely 

cast leaf attachment plates, the handles partially restored, 11cm high (2) 

Provenance: Horatio and Patsy Melas Collection, Alexandria, Egypt, 

acquired before 1967. Thence by descent, moved to Switzerland and 

London. 

£500-£700 

168 

48

171 

172 

173 174 

171 

A GROUP OF CLASSICAL TERRACOTTA ARTEFACTS 

Circa 6th Century B.C. - 5th Century A.D. 

Including a Greek black glazed salt-cellar dish, 9.5cm dim; an Apulian 

lekanis lid decorated with profile heads, 9.5cm diam; a small Etrusco- 

Corinthian alabastron with running hounds, 7.5cm high; a Roman red 

slip ware dish with potter’s stamp and applied dogs and rosettes over 

the rim, 18.2cm diam; two Roman terracotta heads, 4.5cm-5cm high; 

two Roman bottles, one with red slip, 13cm-16cm high; and three 

fragments; together with a miniature nestoris, Not Ancient (12) 



£400-£600 

172 

TWO GREEK TERRACOTTA VESSELS 


Including and Italo-Corinthian grey terracotta exaleiptron, with infolded 

rim and broad ribbon handle, 17.5cm diam excl. handle; and an Attic 

lekythos, decorated with rays over the shoulder, 13.5cm high (2) 

173 

THIRTY ANCIENT TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS AND OTHER VESSELS 


Including Syro-Palestinian oil lamps, two bottles and a small jar, 6cm- 

11cm long (29) 

Provenance: American private collection, Colorado, acquired by Major 

Blinkinsop while serving with the United Nations in the Middle East in the 

1960s. Thence by descent. 

£200-£300 

174 

THIRTY ANCIENT TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS AND OTHER VESSELS 


Including Syro-Palestinian oil lamps, and vessel with globular body, 

6cm-10cm long (29) 

Provenance: American private collection, Colorado, acquired by Major 

Blinkinsop while serving with the United Nations in the Middle East in the 

1960s. Thence by descent. 

£200-£300 


nachfolger, Munich, in the 1990s. 

£200-£300 


175 

175 

EIGHT ANCIENT TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS 

1st Millennium B.C. to 8th Century A.D. 

Including a Bronze Age pinched oil lamp, three Roman oil lamps 

decorated with an eagle, a bear and a theatre mask, and four Byzantine 

examples, one a miniature lamp, 5cm-11cm long (8) 

176 



£100-£200 

176 

SIX ROMAN AND BYZANTINE TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS 


Four examples with molded decoration on the tondo, including one with 

a chi-rho cross, a date palm tree, a bunch of grapes, and geometric 

motifs, together with two more plain oil lamps, 12cm-15cm long (6) 



£250-£350 

177 

A GREEK BLACK GLAZED THISTLE MUG 

Apulia, circa 4th Century B.C. 

With flaring mouth and loop handle, 10cm high 

177 



£200-£300 

178 

TWO GREEK BLACK GLAZED DISHES 


Both on raised foot, the larger example with scalloped decoration 

around the rim, 11.5cm diam; the other one with ribbed rim and 

stamped rosette at the centre of the interior, 8.3cm diam 



£200-£300 

179 

AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE VESSEL FRAGMENT 


Showing the lower section of legs from three different figures, one pair 

partially covered by a tunic, a band of rays emanating from below, 

16.5cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired on the Paris art market 

in the 1980s. 

£80-£120 

178 

50

180 

181 

182 

180 

A GREEK RED-FIGURE BELL KRATER 


Enlivened with white slip, showing on side (a) a seated nude male figure 

holding a spear, facing a draped young woman proffering a patera, and 

on side (b) a couple of conversing draped youths, one holding a staff, 

both scenes on a ground line of waves, with palmettes below the 

handles, a band a laurel below the rim, 29cm high 

Provenance: with John A. Badman, The Monarch, Glastonbury, in the 

1970s. 

£2,000-£3,000 

181 

A GREEK RED-FIGURE LEKANIS 

Apulian, circa 4th Century B.C. 

The lid showing two female profile heads separated by palmettes, the 

knop at the top decorated with rays, lid and body not belonging, 23.5cm 

diam incl. handles 


£100-£200 

182 

A GREEK LEKANIS BODY 


Black glazed, with old collection label ‘Bateman Collection P.I. 63’, 

20.5cm diam excl. handles 



descent. 

£100-£200 


183 

184 

185 

183 

A ROMAN LIMESTONE MALE PORTRAIT HEAD 

Circa 2nd Century A.D. 

Possibly from a large relief, the back flat and unworked, depicting a man 

with full beard, pronounced cheekbones and curly hair falling over the 

forehead, 23cm high 

Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed 

prior to 1980. Accompanied by an invoice from Asprey London for 

mounting the head on the green calf leather plinth, dated 13 June 1975, 

and by a photograph of the head displayed in John Marriott’s house 

dated 1 September 1991. 

£800-£1,200 

184 

THREE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA FIGURES 


Including a figure of squatting Harpocrates holding a jar, another bust of 

Harpocrates with a crown holding a jar, and a head of Isis-Aphrodite, 

7cm-9cm high; together with an After the Antique terracotta theatre 

mask, 11.5cm high (4) 

Provenance: John Marriott (1921-2007) Collection, London, formed 

prior to 1980. 

£150-£200 

185 

A CANOSAN TERRACOTTA PATERA 


The handle in the shape of a nude caryatid, the arms raised to support 

the shallow bowl, 40cm long incl. handle 

Provenance: Bonhams, 25 November 1998, lot 92 (part) 

£200-£300 

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188 

187 

186 

186 

A ROMAN RED SLIP WARE DISH 


The tondo decorated a five-pointed star within a series of concentric 

circles, 32cm diam 

Provenance: English private collection, Cambridgeshire, acquire prior 

to 2000. 

£200-£300 

187 

A GROUP OF GREEK TERRACOTTA VESSELS 

South Italy, circa 5th-3rd Century B.C. 

Including a Gnathian krater, decorated in white slip with a swan, the foot 

missing, and a black-glazed dish; a Hellenistic krater and a doublehandled 

jar; a Daunian trozella and a fragmentary olla; and a 

fragmentary terracotta boar figurine, 7.5cm-27cm high (7) 

Provenance: English private family collection, Mr R. E., acquired in the 

1970s. 

£300-£500 

188 

A ROMAN BRONZE CHARIOT REIN GUIDE 

Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. 

In the shape of two panthers, each resting its paw on a roundel 

decorated with a male head in relief wearing the Phrygian cap, with 

incised details of the panthers’ fur, the large eyes hollow for nowmissing 

inlays, 14cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased from Artemission, 

London, in 2011. Previously on the London art market in 2000. 

£2,000-£3,000 


189 

191 

190 

192 

189 

A ROMAN BRONZE CHARIOT FITTING 


In the shape of a bust of male slave, the rein guide projecting from the 

back in the shape of a thumb, 7.5cm high 

Provenance: English private collection, London, acquired in the 1990s. 

£200-£300 

190 

A ROMAN TINNED BRONZE MIRROR 


Decorated on one side with concentric grooves, body and handle 

possibly not belonging, 23cm high 



£250-£350 

191 

TWELVE ROMAN BRONZE BROOCHES 


Including two disc brooches with millefiori enamel inlay, one in the 

shape of a horse, a double-crossbow fibula, and other openwork 

examples, 2.2cm-3.6cm long (12) 

Provenance: German private collection of Mr V.K., Munich, acquired 

prior 2000. 

£300-£400 

192 

A GROUP OF ROMAN AND BYZANTINE BRONZE, LEAD AND IRON 

ARTEFACTS 


Including a Romano-British appliqué in the shape of a theatre mask 

found near Bath, a cross-bow fibula, a round brooch with blue enamel 

decoration, two cylindrical furniture attachments, an iron blade found at 

Owmby, Lincolnshire, two Roman lead seals, five other Roman bronze 

items; and a Byzantine oil lamps with a square weight, 3cm-15cm long 

(15) 



£200-£300 

193 

THREE MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES 

Circa 1st Millennium B.C. - 2nd Century A.D. 

Including a Celtic bronze torque, of twisted form, the terminals in the 

shape of hooves, Central European, circa early 1st Millennium B.C., 

9.2cm wide; a Greek terracotta figurine of a bull, Boeotian, circa 6th 

Century B.C., 7.5cm long; and a small Roman marble female head, 

circa 1st-2nd Century A.D., 5.3cm high (3) 

Provenance: the Celtic torque, Michael Poulson (1947-1997) Collection, 

member of the Glass Circle, acquired in Berlin circa 1992-1995. The 

other two, English private collection, purchased at Phillips, London, 

circa 1990. 

£200-£300 

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193 

194 


Circa 1st Millennium B.C. - 5th Century A.D. 

Including a bronze Luristan vessel, a Palestinian pinched oil lamp, a 

Roman oil lamp moulded with a grotesque face and a Byzantine oil 

lamp, 7cm-9.5cm long; together with three Roman coins, three weights, 

a ring and a Chinese pottery incense burner (13) 

Provenance: English private deceased estate, formed in the 1960s. 

£100-£200 

195 

A GROUP OF ANCIENT COINS 

Including a silver Athenian tetradrachm impressed with the city’s owl, a 

large number of Roman and Byzantine bronze coins and some later 

examples (a lot) 

194 



1970s. 

£100-£200 

196 


Including two Roman bronze fibulae, one decorated with enamel inlays, 

circa 2nd Century A.D., 5cm-9.5cm; a small Greek terracotta seated 

goddess, circa 4th Century B.C., 8.5cm high; a Chinese glazed pottery 

figure, Tang Period, 19.5cm high; two Pre Columbian terracotta heads, 

3cm-5.5cm high; a Trilobite fossil, 7.5cm long; and a terracotta oil lamp 

and female figure, Not Ancient (9) 

195 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired on the London market 

in the 1990s. 

£100-£200 

197 

FOUR MARBLE FRAGMENTS 

Including two architectural fragments, a tight possibly from an Eros, and 

another, 6.5cm-13cm long (4) 

Provenance: acquired on the London market in the 1980s. 

£50-£80 

198 

A GROUP OF MISCELLANEOUS ANCIENT ARTEFACTS 

Including a group of Roman red slip ware terracotta fragments, circa 

3rd-4th Century A.D.; a Romano-Egyptian terracotta horse figure, circa 

1st Century B.C./A.D., 16cm long; two Egyptian bronze fragments of 

Osiris, Late Period, 7.5cm-15cm long; and various other terracotta, 

bronze and glass items and fragments, some Not Ancient (a lot) 

Provenance: English private collection, London, acquired between the 

1980s and early 2000s. 

£50-£80 

196 


201 

200 

202 

203 

199 

A GROUP OF MISCELLANEOUS AUCTION CATALOGUES 

Including assorted Bonhams Antiquities catalogues between 2003- 

2015; ten various Tribal Art sale catalogues from Bonhams, Sotheby’s 

and Christie’s; and various other sale catalogues including Sotheby’s 18 

November 1991, The William E. Wiltshire Collection; Sotheby’s 13 May 

1994, Photographic Images; Sotheby’s 18 December 1990, Japanese 

Prints (58) 

£20-£30 

200 

AN ETRUSCAN AGATE SCARAB 


Naturalistically carved with detailed wing-case, pierced vertically, the 

underside engraved with a satyr resting underneath a tree over a mound 

of rocks, playing the aulos in front of a herm with horned head, within a 

rope-twist border, the carving possibly added later, 18mm long 

Provenance: English private family collection, London, acquired in the 

1970s. 

£300-£500 

201 

TWO HELLENISTIC GOLD EARRINGS 

Circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C. 

One example with a hollow-cast terminal in the shape of a bull’s head, 

the other with a lion’s head terminal, both decorated on the neck with 

filigree, the hoop composed of twisted wire, 2.9cm-4cm long (2) 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired at a regional auction 

house in the early 2000s. 

£300-£500 

202 

A PAIR OF ROMAN GOLD AND GLASS EARRINGS 


The hoop earrings decorated with a pendant of two glass beads and a 

hollow gold prismatic bead, 3cm long (2) 


market in the 1990s. 

£150-£250 

203 

A PAIR OF PARTHIAN GOLD EARRINGS 

Iran, circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. 

Hollow-cast, boat-shaped with a hinged hoop, decorated with lines of 

granulation and clusters of spheres, with modern studs, each approx 

2.3cm long (2) 

Provenance: English private collection, Mr H. Shaida, acquired in the 

1980s, thence by descent. 

£400-£600 

56

204 205 

206 

207 

204 

A ROMAN GOLD AND CARNELIAN INTAGLIO RING 


The solid-cast gold hoop set with an oval gem, finely carved with a deer 

grazing, with long branched horns, 14mm width of intaglio, ring size ‘S’ 


prior 2000. 

£2,000-£3,000 

205 

A GOLD AND CARNELIAN INTAGLIO RING 

The hollow-cast hoop set with an oval gem engraved with a female 

profile portrait bust, ring size ‘O’, 19mm length of intaglio 

Provenance: English private collection, acquired at a regional auction 

house in the early 2000s. 

£200-£300 

206 

A ROMAN GOLD, GARNET AND GLASS RING 


With a flat hoop and triple bezel with two garnets and a central blue 

glass gem, ring size ‘M’ 


prior 2000. 

£450-£550 

207 

A COLLECTION OF GLASS AND HARDSTONE BEADS 

Including a selection of Roman, Islamic and African trade glass beads; 

Mesopotamian and Ancient Near Eastern banded agate beads; small 

Sasanian carnelian seal engraved with a winged horse; an Islamic 

carnelian seal with script; four necklaces composed of Egyptian 

turquoise glazed composition tubular and mummy beads and red coral 

beads, and an Egyptian terracotta mould; a large number of Idar- 

Oberstein carnelian trade faceted beads (a lot) 



1970s. 

£200-£300 


209 

208 

211 

210 

The following eight lots (208-215) are from the estate of the late 

William Welsh Robson (1944-2012), London, formed through 

several surveys with the metal detector around London and Kent in 

the late 1970s-2000s. 

208 

A GROUP OF BRITISH BRONZE ARTEFACTS 

Bronze Age, circa 1200-800 B.C. 

Including a large pin with melon terminal and perforation at the centre of 

the shaft, finely engraved with diagonal lines, 19.5cm long; a dagger 

with flanged hilt, 26cm long; two socketed axehead fragments and 

another partly melted example, 6cm-9cm long; an arrowhead and the 

tip of a sword (7) 

Provenance: deceased estate of William Welsh Robson (1944-2012), 

London. 

The dagger found around Otford, Kent, in 1975 during the excavations 

for the M25 motorway. 

The pin and axehead recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme 

respectively as LON-6A4DF5 and LON-E59816. 

£200-£300 

209 

A ROMANO-BRITISH BRONZE FIGURINE OF HERMES 


The deity depicted reclining wearing the petasos and holding the 

caduceus and the bag of money, 5.2cm long 


London. 

Found in Eynsford, Kent, recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme 

as LON-B48905. 

£150-£250 

210 

TWO ROMANO-BRITISH BRONZE FIGURINES 


Including a horse with bridles and trappings around the neck, 6.3cm 

long; and a handle decorated in the shape of a seated dog wearing a 

thick collar, with incised details of the fur, possibly a wax spatula, 7.3cm 

long (2) 


London. 

The dog found in Eynsford, Kent, recorded with the Portable Antiquities 

Scheme as LON-B49F72. 

£250-£350 

211 

A ROMANO-BRITISH BRONZE OINOCHOE 


The squat body on slightly raised flat foot and flaring mouth, the handle 

decorated with raised chevrons and an ivy-shaped terminal, 15.5cm 

high 


London. 

Found around Otford, Kent, in 1975 during the excavations for the M25 

motorway. 

£300-£500 

58

212 213 

215 

214 

212 

A COLLECTION OF ROMANO-BRITISH MISCELLANEOUS ARTEFACTS 


Including four bronze vessel feet in the shape of a paw, 4cm-7cm long; 

a vessel handle escutcheon decorated with a face, 12cm wide; a patera 

handle with ram’s head terminal, 10cm long; a figurine of a panther, a 

theatre mask appliqué, a griffin protome, 3.1cm-4.2cm long; an 

enamelled disc brooch and five other fibulae; a silver horseshoe 

pendant, 2.5cm wide; two lead plumb bobs one in the shape of an 

amphora; two terracotta oil lamps and other vessels (a lot) 


London. Several of the finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities 

Scheme. 

£200-£300 

213 

A HISPANO-VISIGOTHIC BRONZE BUCKLE PLATE 

Circa 600-720 A.D. 

Of rectangular shape with a rounded short side, with four projecting 

knobs and two lugs for attachment, decorated with incised abstract 

motifs composed of two drop-shaped areas and scrolling within, 7cm 

long 


London. Found on the outskirts of London and recorded with the 

Portable Antiquities Scheme as LON-8577D6. 

Exhibited: on loan to the Museum of London in 2006. 

Literature: this buckle plate belongs to Ripoll’s type G2, which is very 

common in South Spain and Portugal. There is only one other recorded 

example of this type ever found in England. Cf. G. Ripoll Lopez, 

Toreutica de la Betica, Barcelona, 1998, figs. 16, 22, 63-66, pls. 26-27. 

£300-£500 

214 

A COLLECTION OF BRITISH MEDIEVAL AND LATER ARTEFACTS 

Anglo-Saxon Period to Victorian 

Including two Medieval lead pilgrim’s ampullae, 4cm-5cm long; two lead 

spindle whorls, three cross pendants, and a star from ceiling 

decoration; a Medieval bronze double-disc mirror, 4.3cm long; seven 

early Medieval and Anglo-Saxon brooches including one enamelled 

example, 2.3cm-6.4cm long; an Anglo-Saxon bronze buckle, 5.1cm 

long; three mosaic glass beads; two fob seals and other bronze and 

terracotta items (a lot) 


London. Several of the finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities 

Scheme. 

£100-£200 

215 

A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF COINS, SEALS AND 

IMPRESSIONS 

Including seven Celtic coins, one silver unit of Eisu, ruler of the Dobunni, 

two other silver coins and three bronze Potin coins; a Roman sestertius 

from the reign of Claudius, another example issued by Constantius, a 

dupondius of Hadrian and three more examples; a silver Anglo-Saxon 

coin; a collection of Post-Medieval coins and lead seals, a framed 

collection of Jetons from Europe, a framed display of wax seals, and 

other weights (a lot) 


London. 

The Constantius coin accompanied by a letter from the Museum of 

London dated 1 November 1979. Several other coins recorded with the 

Portable Antiquities Scheme. 

£100-£200 


216 

219 

217 218 

220 


216 

A GROUP OF ANCIENT AND 

ETHNOGRAPHIC FLINT IMPLEMENTS 

Including sixteen British and French 

implements, Paleolithic to Neolithic Period, 

including a white stone oval axe from Cissbury 

Rings, 19.5cm long, three tools labelled 

‘Cromer foreshore’, an implement inscribed 

‘Abbeville’, 16cm long, and other examples, 

some inscribed with find-spot; two Ethiopian 

stone axes inscribed ‘Melke Simbule’; a Native 

American grooved axe, with label ‘Ohio River 

Banks’, 11cm long; thirty-two arrowheads from 

Labrador in a collector’s case, collected by 

W.T. Grenfell, June 1902, 18mm-60mm long; a 

Japanese polished axehead fragment 

inscribed ‘Hokkaido Japan’, 7cm long; a schist 

polished axehead, marked ‘R.8091 1936’, 

12cm long; seven flints in envelopes from the 

Guildford Museum, 2.8cm-3.2cm long (a lot) 

Provenance: English private collection. The 

Labrador flints and Japanese axe, Bonhams, 

13 October 2006, lot 448 (part), Dr Basil 

Woodd Walker Collection, formed before 1929. 

The Ethiopian flints, R. Erskine Collection. The 

Native American axe and schist polished axe, 

purchased from Finch & Co, circa 1990. 

£300-£500 

217 

THREE FLINT TOOLS 

Neolithic Period, circa 4th-2nd Millennium B.C. 

Including two Central European polished 

axeheads, 12.3cm and 17.4cm long; and a 

French flint core, caramel-coloured and 

worked all over, 22.5cm long (3) 

Provenance: the polished axeheads, Michael 

Poulson (1947-1997) Collection, member of 

the Glass Circle, acquired in Berlin in 1995, 

reputedly from a German 19th Century 

collection. The flint core, field-walking find, Le 

Grand-Pressigny region, circa 1980. 

£150-£200 

218 

A BRITISH BRONZE SOCKETED GOUGE 


With curved cutting edge and slightly flaring 

socket, 7.8cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, 

purchased from Dix Noonan Webb in the late 

1990s. 

£200-£300 

219 

A BRITISH BRONZE AXE HEAD 


With curved flaring cutting edge, round socket 

and loop, 10cm long 

Provenance: English private collection, 

London, acquired in the 1990s. 

£200-£300 

220 

THREE BRITISH BRONZE WEAPONS 


Including a fine tinned axe head with loop, 

molded on each face with three ribs ending in 

a round pellet, 10cm long; another example of 

square cross-section, 7.5cm long; and a spear 

head fragment, 7cm long (3) 

Provenance: English private collection, Mr M. 

Vaughan, London, formed in the 1970s-1980s. 

The fragmentary example with label inscribed 

‘Ex McAlpine’. 

£200-£300 

60

221 

223 

222 

221 

A LARGE EUROPEAN BRONZE COMPOSITE SPECTACLE BROOCH 

Late Bronze Age, circa 12th-8th Century B.C. 

Composed of a central element consisting of a single wire worked into a 

long pin, spring, hook and large spiral catch-plate, with four smaller 

spirals attached to either side of the bow, 20cm long 

Provenance: Nicholas Wright Collection, UK. Purchased from Maurice 

Braham in the 1980s. 

£4,000-£6,000 

223 

A EUROPEAN BRONZE TWISTED TORQUE 


The twisted body tapering towards the curled terminals, 23.5cm diam 



£300-£400 

222 

A EUROPEAN BRONZE ARMLET 


Of penannular shape, decorated with incised bands and chevrons, 

10cm wide 



£150-£250 


224 

224 

A EUROPEAN BRONZE SPECTACLE ORNAMENT 

Bronze Age, circa 15th-11th Century B.C. 

Composed of a single wire worked into two spirals, 

10.5cm wide 

Provenance: Nicholas Wright Collection, UK. 

Purchased from Maurice Braham in the 1980s. 

£400-£600 

225 

225 

TWO BYZANTINE GLAZED SGRAFFITO BOWLS 


Barnacle encrusted, decorated with incised stylised 

sun with rays on pale green ground, 26cm-27cm 

diam (2) 

Provenance: English private collection, purchased 

from Gerhard Hirsch nachfolger, Munich, in the 

1990s. Previously old German collection. 

£300-£400 

226 

THIRTEEN LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE 

BRONZE BUCKLES 


With loop and tongue, decorated with openwork 

crosses and geometric motifs, with hoops on the 

underside, 3cm-7cm long (13) 

226 

Provenance: Silk Collection, London, formed in the 

1950s. 

£180-£220 

227 

A BYZANTINE BRONZE TERMINAL 

Circa 6th-8th Century A.D. In the shape of a bird, 

possibly an eagle, with incised details of the 

plumage, 4.5cm long 

Provenance: Hayford Peirce (1885-1946) 

Collection, Paris and Bangor, Maine, formed in the 

1910s-1930s, thence by descent. 

£100-£200 

227 

228 

A BYZANTINE BRONZE PROCESSIONAL CROSS 

HOLDER 


15cm high 

Provenance: Ian Roper Collection, London, circa 

1985. 

£50-£100 

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Tribal Art 

Lots 229-297

229 

229 

A NURISTAN DRUM, AFGHANISTAN 

The body of the drum carved out of one piece of wood, decorated with 

two rows of encircled eight-pointed stars, on four legs carved with 

triangles along the borders, the goat hide drumhead attached to the 

body with wood pegs, 51cm high 

Provenance: Pinto Collection, Paris and New York. Sotheby’s, New 

York, 14 May 2010, lot 81. 

£2,000-£3,000 

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230 

231 

233 

232 

230 

A NAGA WARRIOR’S SHAWL, INDIA 

Dyed in black, with beige stripes along the long sides, embroidered with 

cowrie shells forming twenty circles, with rows of small squares of red 

dyed fibre, possibly dog hair, fringes on both sides, 108cm x 155cm 

Literature: the number of circles are a reference to the number of 

banquets the owner has hosted to celebrate a victory. 

£100-£150 

234 

231 

FOUR NAGA ARTEFACTS, INDIA 

Including a small wood charm in the shape of a human head, 8.5cm 

long; a pair of shell ear ornaments with dotted decoration along the 

edge, 7cm diam; a bone sceptre with brass terminals, 34cm long; and 

an Indian brass lock in the shape of a dog or lion, 11cm long (5) 

£80-£120 

232 

FIVE BRONZE ‘OPIUM’ WEIGHTS, BURMA 

Circa late 18th-19th Century 

The largest in the shape of a lion with over-arching handle, the others 

depicting another lion, two ducks and a hybrid figure half human and 

half bird, 2cm-5.5cm high (5) 

£80-£120 

233 

A COLLECTION OF SILVER ETHNOGRAPHIC RINGS 

With examples from Ethiopia, India and Afghanistan, ring size between 

‘J’ and ‘W’ (21) 

£100-£150 

234 

THREE LAHU HILL TRIBE SILVER NECK RINGS, THAILAND 

Solid-cast, two examples with flattened back-turned terminals with 

incised decoration, another example with square cross-section and 

punched decoration, 13cm-17cm wide (3) 


in the 1970s. 

Literature: for a similar example of neck rings with back-turned ends 

used as barter items, cf. C.J. Opitz, An Ethnographic Study of Traditional 

Money, Ocala, 2000, p.284. 

£100-£150 


235 

237 

238 

236 

235 

TWO WAYANG GOLEK PUPPETS, INDONESIA 

With articulated head and arms connected to rods, with batik fabric 

dresses, 43cm-44cm high (2) 

Provenance: French private collection, purchased from Galerie 

Duperrier, Paris, in the 1960s. 

£100-£150 

236 

SIX NECKLACES AND ORNAMENTS, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

Including a pendant of cowrie shells and boar tusks, a teeth necklace, a 

boar tusks necklace, and three cowrie shell necklaces, together with an 

elephant tooth, approx. 11cm-36cm long (7) 

£80-£120 

237 

A ‘KINA’ SHELL CURRENCY PENDANT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

The shell pendant attached to a rope necklace, 19.5cm long 

£100-£150 

238 

A ‘KINA’ SHELL CURRENCY PENDANT, HIGHLANDS, PAPUA NEW 

GUINEA 

The sickle-shaped mother of pearl pendant dyed with red pigment, 

attached to woven band, 20.5cm wide 

£100-£150 

239 

TWO SEPIK SHIELDS, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

Of narrow oval shape, carved with stylised anthropomorphic faces, 

decorated with white, red and blue pigment, a handle carved at the 

back, 77cm and 94cm long (2) 

Provenance: Lewis Way Collection, England, acquired whilst travelling 

in the 1960s, thence by descent. Lewis Way was a psychologist, 

member of the Adlerian Society and author of many academic 

publications. 

£150-£200 

240 

TWO ‘BLAAL’ ANCESTOR FIGURES, SEPIK REGION, PAPUA NEW 

GUINEA 

With typical projecting beak-like mouth and pointed headdress, 35cm 

and 43cm high (2) 

£100-£150 

241 

A PAINTED BARK CLOTH PANEL, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 

Decorated with repeated cross motifs, 156.5cm x 84cm 

£100-£200 

66

242 

243 

244 

245 

242 

A WOOD ‘ULA’ CLUB, FIJI ISLANDS 

The lower section of the handle decorated with incised zig zag motifs, 

40cm long 

£100-£200 

243 

TWO ABORIGINAL BOOMERANGS, AUSTRALIA 

58cm and 84cm long (2) 

£80-£120 

244 

FOUR POLYNESIAN ARTEFACTS 

Including a coconut wood fish hook, Gambier Islands, 6cm long; 

together with three combs, the multiple wood points bound in woven 

fibres, 11.5cm-12cm long; together with another comb, 12.5cm long (5) 

Provenance: Bonhams, 21 January 2009, lot 864 (part). H.D. Collings 

Collection. 

£200-£300 

245 

A BRONZE BUST OF HORI NGAKAPA TE WHANAUNGA, NEW 

ZEALAND 

On a wood plinth with a plaque reading ‘Hori Ngakapa Te Whanaunga. 

This warrior chief was one of the leaders in the attack on the British 

escort at Martin’s Farm, Great South Road. 17th July 1863. His brave 

wife, Hera Puna, accompanied him on the warpath’, 16.5cm high 

£100-£200 


246 

247 

248 

249 

246 

A MAORI ‘MERE POUNAMU’ GREENSTONE SHORT CLUB, NEW 

ZEALAND 

With stepped rounded pommel, pierced for suspension, 33cm long 

£400-£600 

247 

A LARGE MAORI ‘WAKAHUIA’ FEATHER BOX, NEW ZEALAND 

Of elliptical shape, the lid with central ridge in the shape of two 

anthropomorphic figures, decorated on each side with two large heads, 

the tongue sticking out, the round eyes inlaid with paua shell, the same 

intricate decoration repeated on the body, supported by two feet in the 

shape of kneeling figures, 38cm long 

£300-£500 

248 

A MAORI ‘WAKAHUIA’ FEATHER BOX, NEW ZEALAND 

The lid decorated with a face with the tongue sticking out at either 

side, the rest intricately carved, with round paua shell inlays, 

supported by two feet in the shape of janiform heads, 30cm long 

£150-£250 

249 

A MAORI DANCE PADDLE, NEW ZEALAND 

The leaf-shaped section carved on one side with a tiki head, the 

tongue sticking out and the eyes inlaid with paua shell roundels, the 

other side with an incised geometric pattern, the terminal carved with 

a suspension hoop and shell inlays, 61cm long 

£300-£500 

250 

THREE MAORI TIKI IDOLS, NEW ZEALAND (3) 

£50-£80 

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252 

251 

251 

A SAMI BONE SPOON, SCANDINAVIA 

With openwork handle, the bowl decorated with an engraved caribou, 

9.5cm long 

254 

Provenance: Bonhams, 21 January 2009, lot 864 (part). D.W. Collings 

Collection, acquired in 1933. Then by descent to H.D. Collings. 

£150-£200 

252 

A PAIR OF CREE SNOW SHOES, CANADA 

Composed of bent wood, woven thread and hide strings, 85cm long (2) 

£80-£120 

253 

HENRY NAPARTUK, Inuit (1932 - 1985), ‘Eskimo and Walrus’ 

24cm x 15.5cm, framed and glazed 

£40-£60 

254 

A LA TOLITA TERRACOTTA OCARINA, ECUADOR 

In the shape of a monkey, with large round eyes and wide grin, 8cm 

high; together with another Pre-Columbian style terracotta figure and 

jade axe (3) 

255 



£80-£120 

255 

THREE PRE-COLUMBIAN POTTERY FRAGMENTS, MEXICO 

Including a plaque showing a priest’s head, wearing a ‘butterfly’ 

headdress, Teotihuacan, 6.7cm wide; a doll’s head with well-defined 

features, Teotihuacan, mounted on a Mexican silver brooch, 3.5cm high; 

and a clay head of a cat or chihuahua, 3cm high (3) 

256 

Provenance: the plaque fragment, John Sandon Collection, received as 

gift from Hasso von Winning, expert in Pre-Columbian pottery, circa 

1978. 

£100-£150 

256 

A PRE-COLUMBIAN POTTERY ZOOMORPHIC BOWL, COSTA RICA 

In the form of a jaguar, with applied snarling head, four paws and tail, 

decorated with red slip, circa 6th-10th Century A.D., 10cm long 

Provenance: Henry Sandon Collection, England, acquired in the 1960s. 

£50-£80 

257 

A CHANCAY POTTERY FIGURE, PERU 

With wide face and tall headdress, the short arms spread open, all 

details added in umber paint, 16cm high 


in the 1970s. 

£150-£250 

257 

258 

TWO PRE COLUMBIAN STYLE TERRACOTTA FIGURES 

A Colima-style seated male figure with a bowl on the shoulder, 25cm 

high; and a Jalisco-style figure with high headdress, 29.5cm high (2) 



£50-£80 


259 

260 

261 

262 

263 

264 

259 

A LARGE FANG MASK, GABON 

56cm long 

£100-£200 

260 

A DAN PASSPORT MASK, IVORY COAST 

14.5cm high 

£80-£120 

261 

A LARGE BAMANA ‘CHI-WARA’ ANTELOPE DANCE 

CREST, MALI 

63.5cm high 

£100-£200 

262 

A MOSSI ‘WAN-NYAKA’ ANTELOPE MASK, BURKINA 

FASO 

With long ears, short horns and elongated muzzle, 

decorated in red, black and white, 88cm high 

£100-£200 

263 

A DOGON TOGUNA HOUSEPOST, MALI 

Decorated with three small figures in relief on one side 

and a large male figure on the other, 129cm high 

£100-£200 

264 

A DOGON SEATED FEMALE FIGURE, MALI 

28cm high 

£150-£250 

70

265 

266 

269 

267 

268 

270 

265 

A FANG MALE RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON 

54.5cm high 

£80-£120 

266 

TWO AFRICAN ARTEFACTS 

Including a Yoruba Ogboni society mask, Nigeria, 21cm high; and a 

Senufo female figure, Ivory Coast, 21.5cm high (2) 



£100-£200 

267 

THREE AFRICAN ARTEFACTS 

Including a Fon seated male figure, Benin, 23.5cm high; a Baule ‘blolo 

bla’ female spouse figure, Ivory Coast, 24cm high; and a South African 

beaded figure of a horse (3) 

268 

A SAPI-GREBO ‘NOMOLI’ STONE FIGURE, SIERRA LEONE 

23.5cm high 

Provenance: acquired by the owner in West Africa in the 1970s. 

£100-£200 

269 

A FON IRON MEMORIAL ALTARPIECE, BENIN 

The circular base supporting a central seat surrounded with crosses, an 

alligator, a large hand holding a thunder and others, 58cm high 

£100-£150 

270 

THREE HIMBA ITEMS, NAMIBIA 

Including a beaded necklace, another pendant with metal beads, and 

double bone container (3) 

£80-£120 



£100-£200 


271 

273 

274 

272 

271 

FOUR IRON ‘HOE MONEY’ PIECES, NIGERIA 

Each piece approx 98cm x 68cm (4) 

Provenance: Phillips, New York, 30 September 2007, The Robert Wilson 

Loft Sale, lot 728. 

£800-£1,200 

272 

TWO AFRICAN FIGURES 

Including a Yoruba female figure with child, Nigeria, 67cm high; and a 

head crest with zoomorphic figure, Cameroon, 71cm high (2) 

£100-£200 

273 

A LARGE YORUBA MALE FIGURE, NIGERIA 

102cm high 

£100-£200 

274 

A YORUBA MALE HUNTER FIGURE, NIGERIA 

Depicted with a high zoomorphic headdress, 97cm high 

£100-£200 

72

275 276 

277 

278 

275 

A MANGBETU IRON AND IVORY ‘TRUMBASH’ CEREMONIAL KNIFE, 

SUDAN 

The sickle-shaped blade set in an ivory handle decorated with grooves 

and dot-and-circle motifs, 33cm long 

Literature: Trumbash knives were used both as a symbol of rank and as 

currency. Copper or brass blades were reserved for the aristocracy and 

examples of iron with ivory handle, such as this one, were only for the 

most important members of the royal family. For a discussion of 

trumbash knives, cf. C.J. Opitz, An Ethnographic Study of Traditional 

Money, Ocala, 2000, p.357. 

£100-£200 

276 

A MANGBETU IRON AND WOOD ‘TRUMBASH’ CEREMONIAL 

DAGGER, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

The typical sickle-shaped blade set on a wood hilt, the pommel in the 

shape of a stylised head, 40cm long 

£100-£200 

277 

THREE MANGBETU IRON AND WOOD ‘TRUMBASH’ CEREMONIAL 

DAGGERS, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

With sickle-shaped blade set on wood hilt, one example with the 

pommel in the shape of a stylised head, 33cm-38cm long (3) 

£100-£200 

278 

A GROUP OF VARIOUS IRON BLADES, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

Including three throwing knives, two swords, two spear heads, and a 

sword with curved blade, some decorated with incised geometric 

motifs, 43.5cm-69.5cm long; and three iron and wood weapons 

including a broad sword with wood scabbard, an axe with the shaft in 

the shape of a human head; and a sword sickle, the hilt in the shape of 

a male figure with crest headdress, a lizard resting on his belly, 44cm- 

65cm long (11) 

£100-£150 


279 280 

281 

282 283 

279 

A SONGYE MALE ‘KEFWEBE’ MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

With a raffia collar and woven fibre at the back, 54cm high 

£200-£300 

280 

A SONGYE MALE ‘KEFWEBE’ MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

53cm high 

£200-£300 

282 

A HEMBE MONKEY MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

25cm high 

£100-£200 

283 

A KUBA MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

29.5cm high 

£100-£200 

281 

A SONGYE FEMALE ‘KEFWEBE’ MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

42cm high 

£200-£300 

74

284 285 

286 287 288 

284 

A KUBA ‘MUKIEEM’ HELMET MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

46cm high 

Provenance: William Peters (1923-2014) Collection, London and Deal, 


£80-£120 

285 

TWO FETISH FIGURES, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

Including a Songye fetish ‘nkisi, 31.5cm high; and a Kusu male power 

half figure ‘kakudji, 34cm high (2) 

£80-£120 

286 

A CHOKWE STAFF FINIAL, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

Reduced in length, the finial in the shape of an ancestor figure with 

typical elaborate headdress, adorned with glass beads around the neck 

and waist, 46cm high 

£80-£120 

287 

A LUBA COMB, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

With eleven teeth, the handle decorated with a seated embracing 

couple, the man adorned with a glass bead necklace, remains of black 

pigment, 27.5cm high 

£100-£150 

288 

A WOOD FEMALE FIGURE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

Possibly Pende, with scarification marks on face and body, 30cm high 

£80-£120 

289 

A SONGYE FIGURE ON A HORN, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF 

CONGO 

45.5cm long 

£80-£120 


290 

291 

293 

292 

290 

THREE WOOD PIPES, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

Including a Lulua pipe in the shape of an open hand, and two other 

examples decorated with brass, bone and horn elements, 35cm-52cm 

long (3) 

£80-£120 

291 

TWO WOOD FIGURES, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 

Including a Songye janiform figure with two grimacing heads, 30cm 

long; and a group representing a woman giving birth to a baby in the 

breech position, the midwife pulling the baby’s feet, 20cm long; together 

with a pair of toe peg sandals, 26cm long; a small hide drum, a basketry 

container, possibly a baby crib, and a wood container (7) 

£100-£150 

292 

TWO MASAI HIDE SHIELDS, KENYA 

With traditional painted decoration, 120cm and 134cm high (2) 

£150-£250 

293 

A ZULU MARRIED WOMAN’S HAT, SOUTH AFRICA 

The ring-shaped woven plant fibre base covered in red-dyed fabric, 

42.5cm diam 

£200-£300 

76

295 

294 

297 

296 

294 

THREE AFRICAN MASKS 


£100-£150 

295 

THREE AFRICAN MASKS 

31.5cm-44cm high (3) 

£100-£150 

296 

TWO AFRICAN MASKS 

Including a Chokwe mask, and another example, Democratic Republic 

of Congo, both approx 40cm high (2) 

£100-£200 

297 

FOUR AFRICAN MASKS 

Including a Nunuma mask, Burkina Faso, two masks from Cameroon 

and another from the Congo, 39cm-51cm high (4) 

£200-£300 


Asian Art 

Monday 14 November 2016 

CONSIGNMENTS INVITED 

Deadline: 15 September 2016 

lazarus@chiswickauctions.co.uk 

+44(0)20 8992 4442 

1 Colville Road, London, ENGLAND, W3 8BL 


A CHINESE JADE CARVING OF ZHOU TANZI. 

Ming Dynasty. 

10.5cm H. 

Provenance: Bernard Buckman Collection, acquired from Yuan Feng 

& Co in 1961. 

£6,000 – 8,000

European 

Works of Art 

& Clocks 

13 September 2016 

at 2.30pm 

rachael@chiswickauctions.co.uk 

+44(0)20 8992 4442 



A FINE LOUIS XVI PERIOD GILT 

AND PATINATED BRONZE AND 

WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL MANTEL 

CLOCK 'LOVES TRIUMPH' 

£5000-7000

Antiquities & Tribal Art 

Tuesday 6th December 2016 

Entries now invited 


+44 (0)20 8992 4442 


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