Modelled in the round right hand with long slender fingers and thumb. 6.8 grams, 26 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Cylindrical in profile with dimple base, neck with stepped everted rim. 56 grams 11 cm



From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

In the form of a cube engraved on one side in Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician: ʾZZ G in two lines. 8.1 grams, 12 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

With narrow base and shallow shoulder, everted rim to the broad mouth; with inked museum number 'E1029' and accession ticket 'Roman Cremation (inside jar) 1st Cent. A.D. Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) Lands of the Cornovii'; professionally repaired. 4.45 kg, 35.5cm



Found Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum), UK, in 1921. From a West Country, UK, collection, 1990s. Accompanied by a handwritten identification card with '1921' to verso.

The Cornovii inhabited an area of the (modern) English West Midlands, from Staffordshire to Chester, centered on modern Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum). This was among the largest administrative centres in Roman Britain, and drew its wealth in part from salt production and the mining of lead, copper and silver.

With globular body, everted rim, cylindrical neck, rounded shoulder merging with concave wall, rounded base. 61 grams, 14 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

This toilet bottle could be associated with the Isings form 6 and De Tommaso type 7. These small bottles are among the earliest known blown glass. The everted rim seems to distinguish examples made in Italy and the western Mediterranean provinces from those of the Eastern Mediterranean, on which the rim is usually folded in the form of a flange.

Cuboid with impressed spots to each face, disposed 1:3, 2:4; 5:6. 56 grams, 19 mm



Acquired on the European art market since the early 2000s. From the private Northern Ireland collection of R.M.

Comprising a penannular flat-section hoop with punched decoration, deltoid-shaped terminals formed as stylised snake heads with hatched line detailing. 25.5 grams, 58 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Discoid in plan, the obverse with profile bust of an emperor wearing a radiate crown, legend surrounding; the reverse with two opposing figures, legend surrounding. 5 grams, 28 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Including a bronze coin, buckle loops, glass marbles, lead tokens, thimbles, furniture fittings, and other items. 1.35 kg total, 1.1-11.1 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Including tubular bottle with flared rim, phial with flared rim and fluting, and other types. 157 grams total, 54-75 mm



From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.

Ellipsoid bezel with enigmatic text in two registers; hoop absent. 2.6 grams, 27 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Modelled in the round with fin and gill detailing, slot to the underside. 9.9 grams, 23 mm



From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.