Roman Bone Spoon

A mixed group of 20 copper-alloy rings of various types and sizes, including examples with glass cabochons, incised geometric motifs to the bezels, cruciform motifs, tiered bezels and other types. 59 grams total, 15-24 mm



Acquired before 2000. From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.

A group of eight glass vessels from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilisations, of various types and dates: a pale green bulbous jar with a flared neck and rim, blobs to the neck and shoulder; a green bottle with waisted cylindrical body and short neck decorated with raised vertical ribs and hatching; a miniature piriform green bottle with globular foot and slightly flared neck; a clear glass miniature bottle of squat form, with a tubular neck and remains of iridescence to the internal surface; a pale green bottle with a squat body, long tubular neck and everted rim; a piriform green bottle with high shoulder and rounded base, tubular neck; a barrel-shaped pale blue vessel with inverted rim; an amber-brown coloured vessel of carinated form, wheel-cit bands to the equator and rim. 387 grams total, 40-97 mm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.

A fragment of a redware oil lamp comprising the discus and shoulder, part of the nozzle and part of the handle; the shoulder with finely moulded running vine scroll ornament; the discus pierced in two places with a scene involving a tree with a roofed structure in the branches, and a child seated with legs dangling over the edge of the platform, playing a wind instrument, a bird perched above the roof, a hare and pursuing hound to the right and a second child on the left descending from the platform on a rope; modern mounting fixed to the reverse, repaired. 81 grams, 12 cm



Acquired 1960s-1990s. From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.