6th-7th century AD. A cut glass cup with button base and two rows of scooped button ornaments to the sidewall. Cf. similar item in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, under accession number 61.1.11. 270 grams, 10.2cm (4"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10459-170649.