A stamp seal in the form of a lion's head facing right in a brown beige banded calcite. On the base are three animals, possibly canines. 28 by 24 ...

A large Achaemenid scaraboid in blue chalcedony in the 'Greco-Persian' style mounted in a gold band which is then attached to a coiled wire swivel...

A large dark green jasper scaraboid mounted in a contemporary electrum setting. The design shows a bull rearing to the left, the engraver has give...

A large Roman gnostic intaglio in brown chalcedony in a bronze mount with four lugs for attachment. The subject is a lion headed man holding a spe...

A large garnet intaglio showing Heracles walking to the right holding his club and lion skin on his left arm. A flying putto rests on his right sh...

A very interesting gnostic intaglio made on a dark grey mottled agate. The front shows two snakes whose tails seem to turn into rods(?) which are ...

A very fine blue chalcedony stamp seal showing Nabu in form of a zooform altar. Nabu was the patron of writing and a god of scribes and wisdom. Di...

A variegated stone scaraboid with the heads Heracles and Apollo facing right. The gods Heracles and Apollo, while half brothers, were often at odd...

A Roman carnelian bead in the form of a head of a barbarian. He is bearded and his head is shaved bar a pony tail. He quite possibly represents a ...

A Greek scaraboid seal from a dark grey/brown stone with white inclusions. The seal shows a mouse or rat on a corn sprig. 18 by 15 mm. Weight: 3.3...

A Roman intaglio in red/brown carnelian probably from the time of Augustus. It shows Hercules as a young man, possibly with the features of Alexan...

A gnostic intaglio in a dark red carnelian with some inclusions. The subject is an eagle facing to the right standing on a prostate who lies on a ...

A gnostic red jasper intaglio showing a Phoenix standing on a globe which in turn is placed on a pedestal. Flanking the central type are twelve an...

A large Gnostic intaglio in dark red jasper showing a man riding a winged centaur below which is a prostrate man. Around the type is a Greek formu...

An amulet of a bee made from a variegated crystalline limestone. This finely carved amulet of a bee might well have been made for wearing as the w...

White agate with inclusions. A Greek scaraboid in a white agate like stone with a Sphinx facing left. A very well engraved seal of a Sphinx standi...

A Roman amulet made of light grey chalcedony in the form of a cicada. Length: 31 mm. Weight: 6.7 gr.

A crystalline calcite seal of a vulture, the back is engraved with two animals. 32 by 22 mm. Weight: 9.6 gr.

dark blue glass with iridescence. Height: 28 mm

A reclining bull in calcitic limestone, the back is engraved with six quadrupeds made with bow drilling. 35 by 15 by 24 mm. Weight: 16.8 gr.

A Sassanian glass sealing for a jug shaped vessel showing Pegasus standing, raising his right leg, with a wing beneath. The seal would have been b...

Blue green glass with iridescence. A large round Byzantine glass weight made by mould casting for the city of Antioch under the control of the mag...

A pair of Byzantine gold drop shaped earrings. The central opening has a suspended amethyst bead which is surrounded by an open work relief showin...

A Byzantine gold pendant cross made from gold sheet. The cross is formed from hollow tubes which expand towards the finials. At the centre of the ...

The chain is made from two type of elements, one is gold wire with blue glass polyhedral beads and linked by sheet gold elements which have been f...

This exceptional pair of African head pendant earrings originate from Greece, from the third to second century BC. Images of Ethiopians and Nubian...

A charming Roman gold ring set with a small rectangular cameo showing two birds facing each other perched on a cantharus vase. The bezel has flat ...

A large gold ring with a carnelian intaglio showing the portrait of a middle aged man with strong features. The ultra realism shown on subject of ...

A Roman intaglio in a variegated red jasper showing Abraxas with an inscription around the edge, mainly obscured by the gold frame. The back of th...

A pair of gold earrings, each composed with a carved bone cameo modelling a head and shoulder portrait on an upturned crescent discoid setting wit...

An elaborate pair of lunate earrings from the early Byzantine period. The earrings are worked in a repousse manner with the centre perhaps showing...

A Greek gold ring with a lozenge shaped bezel showing a crustacean above a fish. 22 by 20 mm. Size: 18 Weight: 6.3 gr. PROVENANCE Acquired in Lond...

A large hollow gold ring with a cameo of a boy shown three quarters facing towards the right. Some have suggested that these are portraits of the ...

A pair of Hellenistic earrings of a well known type formed from twisted gold wire which are threaded through two carnelian beads, in this case rep...

A hollow gold ring with an carnelian intaglio of a Hellenistic ruler ( Seleucid or Ptolemaic? ) wearing a diadem. A finely rendered portrait of a ...

An exceptional necklace made of light orange colored carnelian of a high purity. The necklace consists of nine long, narrow beads, along with a nu...

A agate cameo of the empress Faustina the younger, white on a dark brown background. 19 by 15 mm. Weight: 1.7 gr. PROVENANCE Acquired in London an...

A Roman intaglio in agate showing a bull walking to the left. 18 mm. Weight: 1.6 gr. PROVENANCE Ex-European private collection acquired before 1970

A cameo in agate with an anchor and two fish shown. This type is a symbol for Christianity playing on the Greek word for fish is "ichthys." As ear...

A very fine cameo of a lion walking to the right in banded agate. The lion is shown engraved in a band of orange/red while the background is white...

An Eastern Greek in red variegated agate with a chalcedony inclusion. This scaraboid is made from a a deep red/brown agate with the back showing a...

A round orange carnelian bead shaped seal with an engraving of a crab. This seal might have been made from an earlier bead given the shape. Of goo...

A Roman intaglio of Minerva facing right. 16 x 12 mm. PROVENANCE Ex-European private collection acquired before 1970

A cameo with a representation of Alexander the Great deified with the horn of Ammon. Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 2.7 gr. PROVENANCE Property of a Lon...

An intaglio in hessonite(?) or brown carnelian, showing the portrait of a man three quarters facing with drapery over his right shoulder and a cad...

An orange carnelian intaglio showing two gladiators with similar equipment engaged in combat. One holds a glade hidden behind his shield and the o...

A Hellenistic cameo of strong individual features probably of the Seleucid/Ptolemaic dynasties. Hercules is a well known protector of both the Sel...

A Roman intaglio carved in a lentoid citrine. The subject is a vigorously engraved bust of Hercules to the right. The subject is beautifully rende...

A large garnet intaglio showing a couple in sexual congress, the scene has almost certainly been copied from a famous bronze spintria issued under...

Head representing a woman whose wavy hair is girded with a headband. Marble stone. Height: 26 cm.

A silver gilt phalera of Sol, showing him from his midriff up with his right arm in a position of salute while his left holds a whip, an attribute...

Head representing a woman whose wavy hair is girded with a headband. Marble stone. Height: 35 cm.

Made of multiple elements of silver sheet, strips, beaded wire and rods: hammered, cut, chiselled, punched, grooved, folded, chased and repoussé. ...

A Byzantine bronze support or bracket for a hanging lamp, probably a polycandelon from a church or other such substantial building. The bracket is...

Height: 119 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany before 1990.

An exceptional pair of rein guides from a chariot of the late first/early second century AD. The guides take the normal form of two lugs either si...

A silver balsamarium in the form of the bust of a young African. A very popular subject in the early Roman Empire, copying prototypes from Helleni...

A very fine miniature head of Alexander the Great in micro-crystalline or fine grained marble. This exceptionally fine small sculpture is engraved...

A charming rendering of the goddess of beauty rendered in white marble, semi nude and standing next to cupid riding a dolphin. She stands facing s...

A small marble head of Apollo from the late classical period, circa 400 BC. This small head is a head of Apollo with a head band crossing his fore...