Greek High-Glazed Cup with Handles

Of square shape, used for making various jewellery elements: small circles, ear-drop pendants, rosettes with striated lines and locating holes on the surface. 114 grams, 63 mm



Collected from 1969-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

Plaques of this type were half of a mould for small objects such as ribbed bobbin-shaped or spherical beads or crescent-shaped pendants. They must have been made for casting, judging by the pouring channels and the circular holes for fixing it to another corresponding half. Ribbed globular and ‘grain of wheat’ gold beads were common in Cyprus and Crete. Similar moulds with pouring channels have been found in the Near East, while open moulds intended for glass ornaments with flat backs have been found in the Aegean.

Group of three hemispherical bowls with burnished surface, one with old collector's inked notation 'L.S./2.60'. 1.09 kg total, 14-15 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.

Comprising twenty-two ritually broken votive fragments, including heads, torsos, and larger pieces with dress and limb detailing. 2.2 kg total, 5.2-25 cm



Acquired on the European art market in the 1970s. with Herakles Numismatik und Antiquitäten GmbH, München, Germany. Kept in the UK since 2000s.