Excerpt from The Antiquary, 1892, Vol. 26: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past; July December Four more triple vases of Roman date are in the Guildhall Museum, London, and were found in that city, but they differ materially from the six already mentioned (see Anti guary for June). Each set of these six triple vases consists of three little vases standing upon their own respective bottoms, side by side, and united at points in their broadest diameters. The Guildhall in stances stand upon, and are part of, a ring or base of the same earthenware as that of which the vases are made this ring or base is probably hollow, and in communication with the vases at their respective bases. In three of the Guildhall examples the vases are exactly like the Carlisle and York examples, i.e., their greatest diameter is midway up their height, and they contract to their mouths in the other Guildhall exam ples the greatest diameter is at the mouths. In a case of Minton ware in the Guildhall Museum is a modern reproduction of the Guildhall type of triple vases; in this case the mouths are so narrow that the article could only be used for keeping three single flowers or three small button-holes in water. It has been suggested that these triple vases stood on a Roman lady's toilette-table as a repository for her rings, studs, and small trinkets; but a girl of the present period, on hearing this, put her rings and trinkets into one of the examples, and found great difficulty in getting them out without turning the whole thing upside down. That they were for holding small bouquets, mere button-holes of flowers, or single blooms or blossoms, is most probable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.