Roman Bronze Bear Fitting

An unfinished copper-alloy brooch casting of simple fibula form, with visible seams. 6.1 grams, 44 mm



Acquired in the 1970s. Important European collection.

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 rectangular stone palette with bevelled edges, accompanied by a bone spoon and probe implement. 152 grams total, 7.5-15.5 cm



Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private collection since 1998.