FINE ANCIENT JEWELLERY & BEADS

We are delighted to present Fine Ancient Jewellery & Beads ? The Prince Collection. Commencing on 20th June at 1:00 PM (BST), the sale will be held at the Apollo Art Auctions London showroom, 63?64 Margaret Street, W1W 8SW. Bidding is available in-room and online via the Apollo Art Auctions platform, as well as Invaluable, The Saleroom, LiveAuctioneers and Interencheres. The auction presents a distinguished assembly of ancient jewellery, including many pieces in wearable condition and a fine selection of engraved gemstones. Spanning from the prehistoric and early Bronze Age periods (c. 4000 BC) through to the Late Antique era (c. AD 600), encompassing prehistoric and pre-dynastic, Egyptian, Near Eastern; including the Neo-Assyrian Period, Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine cultures. Notable provenances include the Foxwell Family Collection; the Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906?1979) collection; the H. Cutting Collection; the Marc Rosenberg collection; the D. Ruskin Collection; and the renowned Prince Collection, which holds royal associations. Highlights of the sale include Lot 250, an Egyptian faience broad collar with leaves, petals and fruit; Lot 288, a rare Roman rock crystal and gold ring with an emperor?s bust; Lot 265 a stunning Hellenistic gold ring with carnelian intaglio of maritime nymph; Lot 276 a Hellenistic gold ring with Alexander the Great as Herakles. Selected lots are accompanied by additional reports from Lisa Sartini, Egyptologist PhD of Chimera Heritage Consultants, and Alessandro Neri, an international cultural heritage expert based in Florence, as well as Art Loss Register confirmation letters. Further scholarly input includes pieces examined by Winifred George Lambert and Peter Van der Veen. A selection of jewellery in the sale was also authenticated in the early 1990s by Dr Jack Ogden and Barbara Deppert Lippitz, leading specialists in ancient jewellery, with a number of objects subsequently published in a professional catalogue.