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  • Egyptian Ramses III Royal Offering Cup
    Egyptian Ramses III Royal Offering Cup

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,150

    Circa 1194-1163 BC, 20th Dynasty, probable reign of Ramses III. A conical dark blue faience royal offering cup inscribed with a single cartouche surmounted by a sun-disc, rising from the hieroglyph for 'gold'; within the cartouche the royal name 'Ramesses mery-Amun' for either Ramses III or Ramses VI.





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  • Greek Corinthian Aryballos
    Greek Corinthian Aryballos

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,050

    Circa 600 BC. A finely decorated handled aryballos with broad flat rim, all enlivened with added crimson, black and white slip showing on the main body a scene of a lionskin-clad and bearded hero holding a giant fish by its tongue and with a fishing line; the fish heavily scaled and with large teeth; behind the hero a seated winged and robed Nike holding a bowl; the base with a band of darts; the rectangular-form handle with depicted figures on the three sides and a lion on the uppermost surface; the rim with a row of stylised serpents around the external upstand and with a floral border to the rim interior.





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  • Greek Southern Italian Black-Glazed Pelike
    Greek Southern Italian Black-Glazed Pelike

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,600

    Circa 5th-4th century BC. A large well-painted black-glazed pelike with broad everted rim, round-section loop handles, piriform body and torus foot; enlivened with restrained use of crimson, ochre and white slip; band of ochre geometric ornament to the baseline; Side A: a standing female in peplos with fan in her right hand offering an open box to a seated naked male with wreath and staff, a lyre below and small naked winged male above holding a wreath above the female, red and ochre rosettes and ovolo on the neck; Side B: a seated female with diadem and earrings offering a box to a standing naked male with wreath and staff, ochre leaves, dots and ovolo to the neck; palmette complex beneath each handle.





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  • Greek Apulian Figural Painted Epichyses
    Greek Apulian Figural Painted Epichyses

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,610

    Circa 350 BC, Southern Italian. An Apulian Gnathian ware epichyses enlivened with crimson, ochre and white slip; with rays on the neck, the shoulder showing a lady of fashion lying, adorned with a necklace and earrings, holding a phiale in her left hand, and foliate sprigs in the field; palmette at the base of the handle, and grape vine on the cotton reel body.





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  • Greek Apulian Black-Glazed Oinochoe
    Greek Apulian Black-Glazed Oinochoe

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,725

    Circa 4th century AD, Southern Italian. An oinochoe with trefoil mouth, enlivened with crimson, ochre and white slip; decorated with a lady of fashion, wearing elaborate headgear with curls falling over her ears, a fan in her left hand and situla in her right; a large palmette to the other side; to the shoulder a band of running scrolls and white bars to the neck.





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  • Roman Bronze Pan Carrying Dionysus Figurine
    Roman Bronze Pan Carrying Dionysus Figurine

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,163

    Circa 1st-2nd century AD. An important well-modelled nude figure of Pan holding pipes in the right hand with right leg raised; with Dionysus seated on his upper left arm, holding a bunch of grapes in his right hand above the head of Pan.





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  • Roman Trefoil Mouth Oinochoe Wine Jug
    Roman Trefoil Mouth Oinochoe Wine Jug

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,265

    Circa 1st-2nd century BC. A cast bronze oinochoe of trefoil-mouth form with concentric bands to the shoulder and thickened basal rim; the looped handle with lion-head ornament above the mouth and scrolled lower end.





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  • Roman Bronze Lion Mask Door Handle
    Roman Bronze Lion Mask Door Handle

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,060

    Circa 2nd century AD. A very large cast bronze door handle formed as a lion mask within a circular frame; the mask stern with prominent brow and eyes, detailed mane framing the face; the sides of the mouth pierced to accept a substantial bronze ring with ribbed collar detailing; the frame with raised annular border and four attachment holes.





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  • Roman Pair of Chariot Decorations
    Roman Pair of Chariot Decorations

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,508

    Circa 2nd century AD. A pair of cast bronze chariot fittings in the form of decorative hooks: each emerging from a flower, the upper body of a cupid with elaborate hair and full face, one with a cornucopia and the other panpipes; traces of silvering to the eyes; supplied with custom-made stands.





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  • Near Eastern Assyrian Gold Winged Bull Mount
    Near Eastern Assyrian Gold Winged Bull Mount

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,495

    Circa 15th-10th century BC. A repoussé gold foil mount in the form of an advancing winged bull with curved horns, gaping mouth, elliptical ear, thick trunk, broad wing and curled tail; on the reverse a gold attachment loop.





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  • Medieval Norman Crucifix Figure
    Medieval Norman Crucifix Figure

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,500

    Circa 11th-12th century AD. A cast figure of Christ crucified, wearing a three-lobed crown, the ribs and loincloth delineated with engraved lines; the facial features modelled in the round, engraved and enhanced; with affixing holes to hands and at feet (two rivets remaining) with traces of gilding.





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  • Medieval Illuminated Psalter Leaf of Psalm 41
    Medieval Illuminated Psalter Leaf of Psalm 41

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,840

    Circa 1179-1223 AD. A Northern French double-sided vellum Psalter leaf of high quality, the displayed recto side with a superb initial letter 'Q' to 'Que' with gold on an inked background in red and blue; the Latin text in black ink upon a finely ruled background, including lines from Psalm 41 'Que ad modii desiderat ceruus ad fotes aquaru ita desiderat anima mea ad te deus' (As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God) with panels of red and blue infill work and a fish outlined in red ink; the general lettering in gothic script with additional letters in gold, red and blue inks.





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  • Celtic Danubian Figural Plaque
    Celtic Danubian Figural Plaque

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,610

    Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A cast lead plaque, rectangular with scrolled top, three rows within a ropework border; in the upper scroll, a fish; in the upper row two human busts and two serpents; in the central row, two armed horsemen advancing towards each other; in the lower row, a hen, an amphora and various geometric motifs.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch
    Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,265

    Circa 6th century AD. A large cast bronze cruciform brooch with rectangular headplate, T-shaped lateral plates, half-round knop with bird-head detailing; the bow deep and tapering; the footplate with bird-head lappets; the finial in the form of a stylized horse-head with T-shaped extension and bird-head terminals; catchplate and ferrous accretion on the reverse.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Harness Mount
    Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Harness Mount

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,680

    Circa 6th-7th century AD. A cast gilt bronze harness mount comprising a flat disc decorated with four panels of Style II interlace, one with a serpent's head, separated by bars with guilloche ornament and surrounded by a billetted border; the centre a pierced disc of bone; the remains of a rectangular extension to one side; on the reverse, four pierced attachment lugs.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Decorated Funerary Urn
    Anglo-Saxon Decorated Funerary Urn

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,955

    Circa 5th-6th century AD. A large coil-made urn of globular form in dark brown fabric with conical shoulder and thin everted rim; below the shoulder a series of bosses and flanges in groups of three; to the shoulder a series of eccentric concentric lines.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Funerary Urn with Bead Contents
    Anglo-Saxon Funerary Urn with Bead Contents

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,840

    Circa 5th-6th century AD. A coil-made globular funerary urn in dark brown fabric with everted rim; to the shoulder a band of horizontal incised lines above four radiating panels with vertical incised lines; complete with a group of thirteen glass beads and fragments found in the urn including melon and disc types, a pierced amber bead, a large green stone with natural hole and a pierced quartz crystal.





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  • Medieval Gold Jewelled Annular Brooch
    Medieval Gold Jewelled Annular Brooch

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,590

    Circa 13th-14th century AD. A gold annular brooch with segmented ring comprising eight conical cells with hatched bosses between, the cells containing alternating garnets and sapphires set en cabochon; the tongue formed as a carinated tapering bar with transverse block at the base.





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  • Medieval Count Goffridis Secret Seal Matrix
    Medieval Count Goffridi's Secret Seal Matrix

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,185

    Circa 1365 AD, Germany. A bronze disc seal matrix with attached spine handle and suspension at rear and bearing the design of a crowned helm and arms with floral sprays in the field; the arms of three eagles displayed on a field of quatrefoils, the crest of five sprays of leaves and bearing the legend SECRET GOFFRIDI COMITIS D' LININGE in Roman lettering.





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  • Post Medieval Gold As God decreed So we agreed Posy Ring
    Post Medieval Gold 'As God decreed So we agreed' Posy Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,610

    Circa 18th century AD. A gold posy ring formed with a plain D-section hoop inscribed on the inner face in a fine copperplate hand 'As God decreed So we agreed' followed by two rectangular incuse maker's marks (extremely rare).





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