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LOT 1196
Roman Aqua Glass Bottle
CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/8 in. (99 grams, 13.6 cm).
With a piriform body and dimple base, a long tubular neck with an everted rim.
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 210, for type.
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LOT 1196
Roman Aqua Glass Bottle
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£50 (EUR 58; USD 68) +BP*
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Roman and Other Mixed Glass Bead Necklace String
1st-4th century A.D. and laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of mixed beads in various colours, including a small 'eye' pendant, restrung. 21.55 grams, 35.5 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Roman Opaque White Glass Patera Bowl
1st-2nd century A.D.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £250
Cylindrical body perched on a wide, slightly concave foot; the shoulders splayed outwards, leading to a thick trumpet-style rim gently curving upwards. 32 grams, 66 mm wide
Ex S.M. collection, London, UK, 1970-1999. Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s. Accompanied by a typed previous catalogue information page with provenance.
The shape of this small cup derives from metal vessels of the Early Empire period or from ‘terra sigillata’ earthenware. Similar vessels were found throughout the Empire during the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. Vessels similar to this one have been discovered in the necropolis at Kourion, Cyprus (dating to the first half of the 1st century A.D.), in 1st-century finds from Gaul, and in Egypt, though the specific find spot and date in the latter case remain undetermined. -
Large Roman Coloured Marble Table Top Formed from a Section of Tessellated Pavement
3rd century A.D.Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £3,000
A section of opus sectile pavement, composed of an array of various fine ancient Roman marble specimens in the shape of rhombi and hexagons, creating a three-dimensional effect, set in a marble frame, and accompanied by an iron table frame. approx. 300 kg, 235 x 129 x 8.8 cm
UK private collection (Robin Symes), assembled 1970s-90s, and thence to the liquidated estate of above. Accompanied by letters from the relevant Greek and Italian authorities renouncing any current or future claim over this piece.
These 3D patterns were widely popular across the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD. Famous original examples of this exact pattern survive intact at the House of the Faun in Pompeii and the National Roman Museum. There is an insert of green serpentine, indicating the piece was reset and repaired in more recent times.
