Featherstone Vaults

Collection

Antiquities

Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Bronze Age and medieval material of documented ownership history.

Roman marble portrait bust of a man, mid-1st century CE.
Representative collection image · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public Domain

How we catalogue it

Objects are taken on only where ownership history can be evidenced and export requirements are clear. Where an object's documented history begins later than 1970, that is stated in the entry rather than implied away. Condition, restoration and surface are described as found.

Classical · Medieval · Early

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Catalogue plates are shown blank. Featherstone Vaults photography is in production and will replace them entry by entry; no stand-in imagery is used.

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