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A British pointed flint handaxe and a British cordate handaxe Lower-Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 422,000-36,000 B.C. 11.8cm and 12.2cm long, ...

A French Acheulean biface flint handaxe Middle Palaeolithic Period, circa 300,000-40,000 B.C. 12cm long Footnotes: Provenance: Jean-Claude Debenne...

Two Nordic Neolithic flint implements Circa 3000 B.C. One a square-sectioned thick-butted chisel, the other a lunate sickle 13cm long and 19.5cm ...

A Neolithic polished hardstone axe Circa 3000 B.C. With narrow butt and uneven cutting edge 14cm high Footnotes: Provenance: with Donald Simmonds...

A European bronze spiral fibula Circa 10000-800 B.C. The bow formed from a continuous spiral with a sheet catch-plate with incised decoration, ext...

A large Etruscan bronze boat-shaped fibula Circa 9th-6th Century B.C. With elongated foot forming the catch-plate, the lozenge-shaped bow with inc...

A Germanic zoomorphic penannular gilt-silver bracelet Circa 4th-6th Century A.D. With flattened stylised animal head terminals 6.8cm diam Footnote...

A Romano-Celtic openwork bronze triskele appliqué Circa 3rd Century A.D. 11.5cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Austria, acquired ...

A Germanic silver knobbed bracelet with confronting rams' heads Hallstatt A-Hallstatt B Period, circa 12th-8th Century B.C. 7.4cm max diam Footnot...

A European Bronze Age twisted gold bracelet Circa 10th-7th Century B.C. The single gold wire forming multiple coils continuing into tight coils ar...

An Etruscan silver fibula with blue glass bead Circa 5th Century B.C. With arched bow, the square catch-plate with finely incised foliate decorati...

A Celtiberian silver disc brooch Circa 4th-1st Century B.C. Repousse decorated with birds and animals around a central wheel motif 10.5cm diam Foo...

A Roman bronze crossbow fibula with gilding Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. The bow decorated with a hunting scene inlaid in gold 8.8cm long Footnotes:...

A Germanic silver animal style disc brooch Circa 8th Century A.D. Engraved with three anthropomorphic creatures, with three dividing panes, around...

A Viking silver ring with axe motif Circa 9th-10th Century A.D. Of octagonal cross-section, with coiled overlapping terminals formed into two conc...

A pair of Ostrogothic gold and foil-backed glass polygonal earrings Circa 6th Century A.D. 3cm diam each (2) Footnotes: Provenance: New York art ...

A Mesopotamian carnelian frog weight Circa late 3rd-2nd Millennium B.C. 3.8cm long, 28.57g Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey, ...

A Bactrian banded alabaster conical bowl Central Asia, late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium B.C. 11.5cm high, 17cm diam Footnotes: Provenance: Private co...

A Sumerian lapis lazuli amulet of four conjoined bulls Early Dynastic III Period, circa 2650-2350 B.C. 4.5cm wide Footnotes: Provenance: Manoukian...

A Near Eastern agate amulet of a naturalistically carved grasshopper Circa 2nd Millennium B.C. 4.3cm long Footnotes: Provenance: European art mark...

A Syro-Hittite terracotta female idol Circa 2nd Millennium B.C. 13.2cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, North America, 1970s. Anony...

A Luristan bronze double harness-ring Circa 10th-7th Century B.C. Surmounted by stylised ibex and a mountain goat 8.8cm high, 10.8cm wide Footnote...

A pair of Scythian gold repoussé plaques depicting winged griffins Circa 5th Century B.C. Each with two confronted winged griffins, their front le...

A Scythian silver attachment of adorsed raptors Circa 5th-4th Century B.C. With asymmetrical stylised bodies and prominent domed eyes 6.5cm high F...

A small Scythian bronze owl attachment Circa 5th-4th Century B.C. 2.5cm high x 3cm Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, New York, 1980s. wit...

Two Scythian vulture head attachments Circa 4th Century B.C. The larger of silver, the smaller of gold, both with long curved beak and well deline...

A pair of Scythian openwork gold appliqués with raptor heads Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C. 5.7cm wide, 5.5cm high each Footnotes: Provenance: Privat...

A Thracian silver-gilt horse head dagger pommel Circa 3rd Century B.C. 4.4cm high, on a modern mount Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Ne...

A Greek silver gorgoneion appliqué Circa 5th Century B.C. 6cm high, 7.5cm wide Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, France. New York art ma...

A Greek silver hemispherical lotus phiale Circa 5th-4th Century B.C. 4.8cm high, 11.4cm diam Footnotes: Provenance: with Kai Schmidt, Cologne, Ger...

A Greek terracotta pinax fragment South Italy, circa 5th Century B.C. Decorated in relief with a young seated Kore or woman, probably Persephone, ...

A Hellenistic hemispherical silver bowl Circa 2nd Century B.C. With fluted and foliate decoration on the exterior 9.5cm diam. Footnotes: Provenanc...

A small Greek silver vessel in the form of a pine cone Circa 2nd Century B.C.-1st Century A.D. Of naturalistic form, with trefoil lip, the arched ...

A Greek terracotta statuette of a veiled woman Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C. Enveloped within a himation on an integral reel-shaped b...

Two miniature Roman silver leaping stags Circa 1st Century A.D. With intricately chased decoration for the fur 3.4cm long each (2) Footnotes: Pr...

A Roman bronze knife handle of a hound chasing a boar Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. 7.5cm long Footnotes: Provenance: with Galerie Serres, Paris, 197...

A Roman bronze spout in the form of Pan Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. With expressive facial features, the mouth agape 3.8cm high Footnotes: Provenan...

A Roman bronze statuette of Herakles Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. Wearing the Nemean lion skin knotted under the chin, the remains of the club in hi...

A miniature Roman marble head of Herakles Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. 4.8cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Germany, 1970s. Anonymo...

A Roman bronze statuette of a hound Circa 2nd Century A.D. 5.3cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection, Germany, 1984. with Ariadne Galle...

A Roman bronze statuette of a panther Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. 4.2cm high Footnotes: Provenance: S. Kumov Family Collection, Germany, 1960s-1984...

A Roman bronze horse head protome 11.7cm long Footnotes: Provenance: with Kai Schmidt, Germany, 1980s. with Ariadne Galleries, New York and London...

A Roman silver figure of Herakles Circa 2nd Century A.D. The bearded deity depicted nude, carrying the Nemean lion skin over his proper left arm, ...

A Roman silver figure of Mercury Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. Shown nude, holding the purse in his proper right hand 6cm high Footnotes: Provenance:...

A Roman bronze bust of a boxer Circa 2nd Century A.D. 4cm high Footnotes: Provenance: S. Kumov Family Collection, Germany, 1960s-1984. Private co...

A miniature Roman bronze figure of a ram carrying a woolsack Circa 2nd Century A.D. 3.8cm high Footnotes: Provenance: S.Kumov Family Collection, G...

A Roman marble sarcophagus fragment with the head of a barbarian Circa 3rd Century A.D. With unruly hair, surmounted by a headdress, an object, po...

A Hellenistic core-formed glass amphoriskos Eastern Mediterranean, circa 3rd Century B.C. 9.6cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Private collection (S....

A Roman pale green glass oinochoe with trailing Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. The principal zig-zag trailing with a band above in turquoise glass, th...

A Byzantine mould-pressed glass disc pendant with religious scenes Circa 7th-15th Century A.D. 4cm diam Footnotes: Provenance: S. Kumov Family Col...

Six Roman glass vessels Circa 1st-4th century A.D. Comprising five unguentaria and a funnel necked flask 13cm-17cm high (6) Footnotes: Provenan...

A Roman glass bowl, a phial, seven unguentaria and a bottle Circa 1st-4th Century A.D. Bowl: 10cm diam.; Vessels: 8.5cm-13.5cm high (10) Footnote...

Ten Roman glass vessels and a fragmentary Roman glass unguentarium Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D. Comprising nine unguentaria, one fragmentary, and t...

Two Roman glass double balsamaria Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. The conjoined tubes with applied handles, one with handles at the side, the other wit...

A Roman blue-green glass elongated bulbous unguentarium Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D. 28cm high Footnotes: Provenance: Likely acquired by Christina ...

A Roman banded agate intaglio with Nike and chariot and a Roman carneilan magical gem with text on both sides Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D. The bande...

Three intaglios and a silver intaglio ring Roman, circa 1st-2nd Century A.D. and later A Roman silver ring with an intaglio engraved with a head i...

A Greek bronze lidded pyxis with three pendants Geometric Period, circa 8th Century B.C. 12.4cm high inc. lid and pendants Footnotes: Provenance: ...

A Corinthian pottery lidded pyxis Transitional Period, between Proto-Corinthian and Corinthian, circa 640-625 B.C. The bowl a natural colour, the ...

A tall Corinthian pottery alabastron Early Corinthian, circa 620-590 B.C. Decorated with a confronting swan and panther, their bodies filling the ...