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Property from a Private UK Collection (Lots 51-55)
Lot 53

Ten Roman glass vessels and a fragmentary Roman glass unguentarium
11

23 June – 7 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,216 inc. premium

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Ten Roman glass vessels and a fragmentary Roman glass unguentarium

Circa 1st-3rd Century A.D.
Comprising nine unguentaria, one fragmentary, and two bottles, one with squat body, tall neck and funnel mouth 13cm-18cm high (11)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Some glass with old collection labels: Cesnola Collection; Luigi Palma di Cesnola, (1832-1904).
Likely acquired by Christina Jane Liddell (1863-1954), a keen traveller and collector of antiquities: she was known by her family to buy at London auctions, including glass from the Cesnola Collection.
Gifted in the 1930s to William Francis Lawson-Dick by an unmarried aunt, believed to be Christina Jane Liddell, his mother's sister who became a school headmistress.
Private UK Collection. Gifted in June 1951 to the owner's late husband by his father, William Francis Lawson-Dick.

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