Apollo Art Auctions

Apollo Art Auctions, an ancient art and antiquities auction house in central London, is directed by Dr Ivan Bonchev, who is named as its founder; the firm's own site says it was founded in 2010^1,8. Companies House records the company, number 11450370, as incorporated on 5 July 2018 as Pax Romana Auctions Ltd and renamed Apollo Art Auctions Ltd on 17 September 2021, with Ivan Boyanov Bonchev as sole director⁷. In August 2019, as Pax Romana, it held a 601-lot sale opposite the British Museum with bidding on LiveAuctioneers¹¹. A LAPADA listing and the British Numismatic Trading Association's member page carry the name Apollo Galleries Ltd, and the association lists it as a member since 2019 with Dr Bonchev as contact^4,10.

It sells classical, Egyptian, Near Eastern, Asian and medieval antiquities in sales held in the gallery, with online bidding through LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable¹. Its site lists departments for ancient art and antiquities, Asian art, Islamic and Indian art, and ancient and medieval coins, and says it has a database of 20,000 clients in over 70 countries^8,9. Some of its sales are of named collections, and its sales in October 2026 are announced as The Prince Collection, in antiquities and in jewellery and beads^2,9.