A group of Ancient Greek pottery vessels, Attic and Apulia, ...

Hammer

£750

A group of Ancient Greek pottery vessels, Attic and Apulia, 4th-5th century BC, most with old collection labels, the Apulian dish with central flower motif, 18cm diameter, a similar small krater, 9cm wide, five other vessels and a Cypriot bronze age ewer, 13cm Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke

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Provenance - Alfred Theodore Arber-Cooke (c.1905-1993); thence by family descent. Arber-Cooke was an antiquarian and avid collector of Antiquities and Asian works of art, principally collecting from the 1930s to the 1970s. He initially lived in Wimbledon, Greater London and was involved with local archaeological digs undertaken by the Surrey Archaeological Society. He wrote the book 'Old Wimbledon', with a foreword the MP Sir Arthur Fell, published in 1927. He later moved to Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales, again involved with local archaeology and wrote the History of Llandovery, published in 1975.