Lot 11 , A group of three Roman glass vessels and Egyptian/Roman glass fragments, Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

A group of three Roman glass vessels and Egyptian/Roman glass fragments, many with old collection labels including a lachrymatory from a tomb in Cyprus, 1st/2nd century BC, 10.3cm, tallest vessel, 13.5cm, two carded Roman glass cabochons in imitation of onyx, another similar section of glass the card stating it was collected by T H Cochrane, carded beads of glass 'found in a tomb near the Temple of El Bahree [Deir el-Bahari], Thebes, March 1862', Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke
Estimate £300-500


Provenance - 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.


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Sold for £280