A group of Ancient Roman pottery vessels and a bronze statuette of Venus, mostly 1st-4th century AD, the bronze statuette, 6.5cm, many of the items with Victorian collection labels, together with an Etruscan jar, 7th century BC and two Graeco-Roman vessels, tallest 14.5cm and a section of red marble, 8cm from excavations 25.ii.1858 at San Stephano, Rome Provenance - A. T. Arber-Cooke CONDITION: 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.