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Estimate
GBP (£) 200 - 300
EUR (€) 230 - 350
USD ($) 270 - 400
£110 (EUR 127; USD 147) (+bp*)
1ST CENTURY A.D.
5 1/4 in. (6 in.) (20.5 grams, 13.4 cm (82.2 grams total, 15.2 cm including stand)).
Comprising a tapering round-section body with narrow shoulder and flared neck, median bulb with pinched flanges; supplied with a custom-made stand.
PROVENANCE:
From an important London collection of glass, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 770, for type.
FOOTNOTES:
Examples of similar form have been found in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, particularly from the grave 12 in the Liverpool Sotto Cemetery at Muralto Locarno, Canton Ticino, Switzerland. The archaeologist assign it to the period between A.D.20 and 50.
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