Sorry
but this is going to be a bit of a ramble, like the previous one....
All the 'blue' glass stuff in the house - whether bowls or other form of containers - is Jordanian glass - we bought in in Bahrain no doubt...all hand shaped and blown - and tougher than it looks..
Also the hall cupboard which also has brass inlay probably also came from Bahrain...
When your father decided to set up his freight agency in Bahrain - I forget the year but there had just been a huge upsurge in the price of oil and the Arabs were feeling rich and hugely buying 'stuff' - causing much shortage of cargo space, hence the freight agency - he rented an unfurnished house and imported a 'package' of house furniture from a London retailer (Conran or Habitat) which comprised beds, tables, chairs, probably a sofa...
Communication was by telephone and telex machines which were operated by punched tape produced by a form of typewriter which I had to use....fortunately having done a typing course many years before...Unfortunately the climate of Bahrain was very humid which meant the tape was often damp and could tear....so I had to iron it before processing it..
The brass table in the sitting room dates back to this period too - it probably was imported from nearby India...
The screens upstairs decidedly came from India, sadly I no longer remember what tropical hardwood was used...
