Beschreibung:

A miscellaneous group of antiquities and later items, including a handled vessel with worn glaze, the shoulder decorated with two facing panthers flanking a central swan, two worn images of animals on the neck, the lower body decorated with banding and rows of vertical wavy lines and petals, possibly Corinthian,18.2cm high, lip broken and missing, surface worn; a Roman glass unguentarium with pear-shaped body, 12cm high; a biscuit-coloured flat-bodied pottery pilgrim flask, probably Roman or earlier, 16cm high; a red glazed slender pottery vessel with side loop handle, 13cm high; a buff-pottery miniature Roman 'feeder' vessel with side loop handle and spout, 7.1cm high; a hollow terracotta figure of a draped female, Roman or earlier, 14cm high; a black-glazed kantharos, with high-looped handles, set on a pedestal foot, possibly ancient Etruscan bucchero ware, 13.2cm high, with a red wax seal; two ancient loom weights; a grey ware pottery oil lamp moulded with the head of Bes at the nozzle and two other pottery oil lamps, probably not ancient and a small limestone architectural element, 8cm(13) Provenance: By repute acquired by Sir William Whitfield in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1940's This lot is to be sold without reserve