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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.
ProvenanceS.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.
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.
FootnotesSuch 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.
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