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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
Provenance: Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) collection; and
thence by descent to the present owner.
£500-£700
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TWO COPTIC BONE ARTEFACTS
Circa 5th-6th Century A.D.
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)
Provenance: Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) collection; and
thence by descent to the present owner.
£300-£500
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A MINOAN BANDED AGATE SEAL
Late Bronze Age, circa 1450-1200 B.C.
Of lentoid shape, pierced for suspension, engraved with a winged
griffin, 29mm diam
Provenance: Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) collection; and
thence by descent to the present owner.
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
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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)
Provenance: Colonel Norman Colville, M.C. (1893-1974) collection; and
thence by descent to the present owner.
£150-£200
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