Four Roman glass vessels
Circa 1st-4th Century A.D.
Two glass unguentaria, one...

Four Roman glass vessels

Circa 1^st-4^th Century A.D.

Two glass unguentaria, one almost clear with an old ink inscribed label on one side, 10.3cm high; another in dark blue glass, with oval body cut-off across the cylindrical neck, an old ink inscribed label attached to the underside of the base, 6.4cm high; a Roman amber glass sprinkler vessel, with spherical body and out-turned folded lip, 8.2cm high; a Roman pale green glass two-handled vessel with squat spherical body, a pronounced ridge below the rim, the handles trailed from the lip to the shoulder, 7.5cm high; several Roman glass fragments, one mounted on card with old pencil inscription on the back; a fragmentary Islamic molar flask and a fragmentary Roman - Medieval glass bottle neck; two button-shaped mocha stones, mounted on card, old ink inscription Mocha stones, Hodeida. Yemen, Soukh Arabia 1903(a lot)

Provenance:

Sprinkler flask: with Superior Stamp & Coin, Los Angeles, December 1979.

The two handled jar: UK private collection, formed from the 1960s onwards.

All other artefacts: Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Antiquities and Asian works of art, principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with local archaeological digs undertaken by the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote The History of Llandovery, published in 1975.