A miniature Cypriot alabaster lekythos
Hellenistic Period, circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
With a ribbed rim and flaring foot, the handle with notched decoration, the shoulder incised with two encircling linear bands, 9cm high; and a Roman marble pestle, circa 1st Century A.D., in the form of a bent finger, 7cm x 4.5cm (2)注脚Provenance:
Alabaster flask: Dr H. A. Fawcett (1891-1982) collection, UK.
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the early 1970s at Sotheby's, London.

There is a similarly decorated miniature Hellenistic alabaster amphora with ribbed lip and stepped foot from the Cesnola collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 74.51.5135.