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LOT 0780

Polychrome Glass Bowl

ROMAN, 1ST CENTURY A.D. OR LATER

2 1/2 in. (42.2 grams, 63 mm).

Shallow bowl with rounded rim, the outer face with dragged and marvered trails forming a rosette.

Provenance

S.S.H., South France, 1950s.

Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00133093.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

See The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 79.1.40, for type; cf. Goldstein, S.M., Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass, in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning-New York, 1979, no.545, for a similar decorated shallow ribbed bowl; fragments of similar bowls in nos.504-505.

Footnotes

Such decorated shallow bowls were mainly produced in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire, and some scholars proposed Alexandria as the workshop. They were realised with mosaic glass technique, mould-pressed and tooled.

CONDITION

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LOT 0780

Polychrome Glass Bowl

Sold for (Inc. bp): £845

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