A 19th century and later drawing-room 'museum' or table-top ...

Hammer

£850

A 19th century and later drawing-room 'museum' or table-top wunderkammer, collected and/or gifted by E.G. Molyneux, among others, the case enclosing an interesting collection of antiquities, including Grand Tour momentos, curiosities and natural history specimens, each 'exhibit' accompanied by an ink manuscript collector's label, comprising an Ancient Egyptian faience amulet, of Anubis, glazed in monochrome and turquoise, and a similar bead, ?erroneously? labelled: Charms from body of a Russian soldier, Crimean War, Sebastopol [Sevastopol]; Granite [...] part of covering-stone of great Pyramid at Giza, [Egypt]; fragments from the Qutb Shahi Tombs at Golconda, Hyderabad , [India], 1863; Glass Tessera, St. Sophia, Constantinople [Istanbul]; Fragments of blue glass inlay, Alexandria?; a wax taper, Catacombs of St Callixtus, Rome, 1907; Piece of marble fragment from Palace of Augustus, Palatine, Rome; Colosseum, Rome; Piece of marble from Roman bridge over Anio at Tivoli [...]; Sherd from Monte Testaccio, Rome, 1923; Fragments of painted plaster from Pompeii; Tesserae, etc., from Pompeii; Fragment of vase from Salamis, [Cyrpus]; Fragments of flint found with ''Coal Money'' [...], Fragments of Roman pottery, Mammalian tooth [...], I[sle] of Purbeck, [Dorset]; Roman Pottery from [...] Villa N[orth] of Martyr Worthy, [Hampshire]; Romano-British Pottery: Kiln in Sloden Inclosure, New Forest, [Hampshire]; Tessera, Roman Villa, ?Brasling?; Fragment of Roman glass and lead seal; Piece of iron (spear-head?) picked on Salisbury Plain; Fragments of pottery from Silchester, [Hampshire]; Fragment of Neolithic pottery from Cissbury, [near Worthing, West Sussex]; Roman Pottery: Circular object; Cocoa & yippi-yappa seeds, Jamaica; dried leaves; the box 50.5cm wide, (collection)