The Manuscript and Collectibles Sale

The bronze sheet worked with a high relief facing head of a plumpish woman, her hair arranged into high corkscrews (a Celticised Medusa?&am...

The venerable design of the gold laurel wreath -- worn by gods, kings and officials, as well as Olympic Heroes -- seen here as three-pointed hand-cut

The ovoid bodies of the earrings hollow, and fenestrated, and lined with twisted wire and granulation ornament. Encircling the lower halves are rings

The amulet of an elongated phallus. Intact and perfect, with slightly crusty brown and green patina. Length: 3". Rare in this size -- a lit...

Comprised of three paired facing heads, and a single facing bust. The bust and two heads being Tyche, with crenellated crown -- on two, the crowns wi

The bronze cast circular disc for a breast plate, depicting the most venerable of ancient motifs, that of a lion pouncing on the back of a bull. The

An applique or fitting, of good size, modeled as the bust of a clothed child frontal, head towards the side. He is cradling an object with his garmen

A rather thick-walled bowl, made by casting, rather than blowing, which features an exterior with "fire polish" and an interior tha...

Of good size and blown in a fairly thick light green glass, this robust bottle has everted flange-like rim, a cylinder neck and piriform body. Intact

Blown from a thick medium-deep green glass, the bottle with small piriform body, cylindrical neck, and flat, disc-like rim. The exterior with variega

All of same type, and like construction, but of varying proportions. One bottle quite thick and robust. All intact and perfect. Two with earthen depo

Largest narrowly proportioned piriform bottle in medium to deep green glass, with patchy areas of superb, brightly colored iridescence. Another, smal

Virtually a matched pair, with small drop-shaped bodied, faintly pinched necks, and flat rims, the vials of slightly different green glass. Both rich

Mold-blown jug in light green glass, with short cylinder neck and thick flattened rim, and ridged, trailed handle at one side. One lower corner has b

The pitcher free blown, with the body of broad drop-shape, on folded high foot. The vessel's neck narrow while the mouth, wide and funnel-l...

Blown in heavy leaf-green glass, this piece has a wide funnel mouth with folded throat, a short flaring neck with interior diaphragm, and ovoid body

Blown in pale green glass, with a flared and folded rim to funnel mouth, a narrow neck, and sloping shoulders on cylindrical body. A heavy trailed ri

Apparently a craftsman&#39;s experiments in the technique of Roman glassmaking, this &#34;<I>homage</I>&#34; quite successf...

Lamp with ovoid body and shorter nozzle, connecting to discus by trough. Motif: Rooster stands right, on small globular object; floral arabesques for

Lamp with fin-like handle, and sunken discus with rimmed trough adjoining spout. At discus, a palm tree of fifteen branches, borderd by raised concen

The pieces are tondos from two different plates, both well potted and of fine red color. Each decoratively impressed with a pair of central Chi-Rho...

Again two more tondo pieces from two different plates, similar to previous lot. Each impressed with ornate Chi-Rho&#39;s. Height of largest: 6&...

Again pieces impressed with Chi-Rho&#39;s, two different plates employing the same stamp. The two smaller fragments of exceptionally bright red...

Pendant an oval plaque with double-ribbed loop, showing a cross moline before a saltire nimbus; the edged lined with beaded and twisted wire border.

Oldest a Palestinian type lamp, unadorned, and used, found at Petra, and purchased there in 1979. Next the incised bronze front sheet from a reliquar

Carved in a micaceous gray schist, the head once part of a larger wall relief. The face with a meditative expression, arched eyebrows above heavy lid