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A Regency brass inlaid rosewood two-door side cabinet, 4ft (1.22m) wide, carries an estimate of £600-800 at an online sale conducted by William George. Bidding closes on January 27.

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The jewellery sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on January 23 includes a group of carved gems and intaglios from the Grand Tour and earlier periods.

A c.1st century BC Roman agate intaglio in a 19th century archaeological revival mount depicts a scene from the mythological founding of Rome: Faustulus discovering the she-wolf suckling the infants Romulus and Remus. The figures are shown below a fruiting vine with a bird perched on the wolf’s back.

Estimate £600-800.

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