Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:: 17-20 November 1924

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/630

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$| ! = 699! A small Incense Cup, with rounded base and sharply sloping sides, =| /; © — ss ‘—™ decorated with bands of chevrons and oblique lines, 32x. diam. ; if ne H and a stone Spindle Whorl (broken), found inside the urn; from _ i es Knockboy, near Ballymena (a long MS. description is within ~ : the vase) “ 2 An 700, A small stone Cup, the sides decorated with bands of triangles filled | with hatched lines, 24 in. diam ; found at Glenarm ; extremely rare 1 12/—Foe {7/701 Part of a stone Cup, decorated with bands of herring-bene orna- PN ment; an unfinished Example, decorated with incised lines; a tiny Lamp of open form; and an oblong pottery Object, decorated @ ¢ 6 4“ /= 96 wig incised ai found Dida an wen at cep foe | i A, M4 ae l a | on ‘op ) Sha ta dns 7 | a ~ i _—ga7 fx ~ ee _ BEADS AND> PENDANTS FOUND IN IRELAND. he eames @ 702 eA collection of jet Objects, consisting of two Armlets, a cross-shaped Y/; ; a ots Ps eesti t pendant, two decorated Plaques from a Bronze Age necklace, (LE Vien rare; two Buttons, and nineteen other Beads and Whorls, all of ~ early period, on card 26 AALS | aC 103 A card containing twenty-five stone Beads and Whorls, also of early “ 72 Ae y i DS ie period 25 ia 4 $a 704 A very fine series of sixty variegated glass Beads of early types (one “ih Ph | i= From Bae dec ees comparison), on card 60 ‘/iep Au pf : 705 <A series of thirty blue “ringed” glass Beads, three of them orna- q mented, probably of the Bronze Age, and found on the sites of 2/ - + ~ * Crannogs” or island dwellings; a fine lot . 30 eo bi: f a nA ; 706 <A very important group of highly decorated ge Beads, some “, = ’ 4-8 /— sd “| ornamented with stout threads in relief; part of a decorated 357. ff : epics glass Armlet; and three Spindle Whorls ; Co. Antrim 48 hp j F ha . 75 )— 107 Part of a twisted gold Torque; aribbed Ring of gold; a Piece of /\ > = ah ned gold Ring Money; a gold Plaque, decorated with scrolls in é “ yearled” technique; two wire Objects linked together; all . : e jound in Lisnacroghera Crannog; aud an extremely fine series of glass Beads, decorated with spirals, many of them with knobs or ribs in relief, an important lot [PI. VIII] 34 *.* For similar beads, see Guide to Celtic Antiquities of the Christian Period, Dublin, 1910, pp. 68-69. zh | 708 Another collection of similar Beads, some beautifully decorated, 0 /- —— also a fine lot, on card 27 ere$

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