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LOT 0182
Large Roman Green Glass Vessel with Applied Blue Handles and Green Zig-Zag Trail
CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (125 grams, 10.3 cm wide).
With a bulbous body, short tubular neck, broad everted rim, applied dark green handles, zig-zag and linear lines applied to the body.
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Lloyd and Jeanne Raport, Washington, D.C. and Florida, formed between 1972-2000.
Estate auction, Weschler's, Maryland, 9-12 December 1982, lot 1074.
See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 292, for the type; Bergman, M. et al., Ancient Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, 1980, items 165-166, for the type.
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LOT 0182
Large Roman Green Glass Vessel with Applied Blue Handles and Green Zig-Zag Trail
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£300 (EUR 348; USD 405) +BP*
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Roman Iridescent Glass Two-Handled Flask with Trail
Circa 1st century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Comprising a bulbous body with long funicular neck and flared rim, applied strap handles to the top, applied spiral decoration to the body, domed foot. 38.07 grams, 11.5 cm
From the collection of a late London gentleman, 1970s-1990s. -
Large Roman Blue Glass Ampulla
Circa 2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Bulbous body with a flat base, tall tubular neck with a rolled rim. 135 grams, 14.4 cm
Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s. -
Roman Iridescent Glass High-Walled Vessel
Circa 3rd-4th century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Tall, sloping walls and a dimpled base; probably cut down from a larger vessel. 171 grams, 15.6 cm wide
From an important London, UK, glass collection, formed 1990s onwards.
This shape is a variety of hemispherical cups found in various materials and techniques during the first three centuries of the Empire. Clay cups of the same shape have been discovered alongside coins of Augustus in necropolises in Switzerland. An analogous form in glass appears in a cup fragment found at Karanis, Egypt, in a stratum dated to the 3rd century AD. The type of decoration is characteristic of the Syrian production centre during the 3rd century AD.
