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Lot 214

Thirty-six Egyptian glass architectural inlays
and twelve Roman spindle weights,
48

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Thirty-six Egyptian glass architectural inlays
Graeco-Roman Period, circa 1st Century B.C./A.D.
Including seven fragments of rosette bars, with translucent blue and red flowers in opaque yellow and white matrix, and twenty-nine bar fragments, some with multiple stripes of colour, including yellow, red, pale blue, black and white, 11mm-48mm long; and twelve Roman spindle weights, one of conic shape with yellow patches outlined in red in a black and white striped background, and the rest disc-shaped, all with central hole, Roman to Islamic period, circa 2nd-8th Century A.D., 13mm-20mm diam (48)

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Provenance:
Acquired from Lennox Gallery, London, in 1998.
R. Bussey Collection, UK, circa 1969.

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