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  • Collection: Collecting the world

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With horizontal incisions.

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Rectangular base and top. Poker work decoration and inscription ( maker's name). 4 paper flowers. Bird on top. Hasluck: 'Dancing bird made by a Catholic mountaineer from Albania. It dances as man plays Lahuta - a simple mountain lyre. A thread…

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Large round tray, beaten copper, tinned after engraving with two interlocking triangles in centre. Moslem date engraved on margin, and Arabic inscription.

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Octagonal tray engraved with figure of foot showing Gnostic symbols, in black marble.

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Double figure of Uraeus, disks on heads, originally inlaid, rings for suspension at back.

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Cinerary urn in form of mausoleum with separate sloped and ornamented roof. Contains fragments of cremated human bone. Inscription engraved on front panel. Inscription: On front panel: L VALERIVS VARVS H S E

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Small vase, with the dried remains of contents spilling down the side.

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Alabaster vase with perforated handles. Contains the remains of a white cream. Inscription in pencil on side: 1300

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Vase, made without a wheel, white ware decorated with spiral and wavy reddish brown lines. One of two listed together in Reid's 1912 Catalogue.

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