Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
December 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/462
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ware ; of funnel shape, set on a raised foot ; scratched on one side is a group of [Roman letters ?], fownd in three low feet. Another small Vase (Acetabulum), tall circular foot ; from Cologne. A pre-historic Vase, with rounded base and long tapering spout, pierced for suspension; the body with incised vandyke and line ornament filled with white; rare, from Cyprus ; Cesnola Collection. Four others of varied form, deco- rated in black with concentric rings and band ornament ; all from Cyprus. A Roman double-handled Vase, of buff-coloured pottery. And a pre-historic Peruvian Vase, with triangular and vandyke pattern in red on yellow 2 161 162 mostly Roman, from London localities ; and a fragment from a large spouted vessel, a potter’s stamp on the rim , 12” an ‘“‘ Upchurch” ware Urn of greyish black pottery, with slip ornament of diagonal dotted lines; another, smaller, of greyish black pottery, the body coated a light grey and decorated with seven diamond-shaped ornaments, composed of applied dots ; all from London 3. with ochre-coloured glaze; on each side the head of Medusa in high relief; rare L , ornament in a brownish yellow glazed slip, tempo XV Cent.; a large Jug, with moulded lip, of red pottery, the front splashed with green glaze; another, of plain brown glaze ; all from London 3 pottery, the body decorated with a marbled glaze ; at each side are two lion-head loops for suspension, tempo XVI Cent.; found in Eppiny Forest. A perfect and exceedingly rare specumen L