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LOT 0868

Sold for (Inc. bp): £390

ROMAN GLASS JUG WITH FILLETS
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (105 grams, 76 mm).

With bulbous body, flared rim and applied zigzag trail to neck, dimple base; old collector's labels to underside '2970' and 'L-16437'. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
M.C. (b.14.12.1933) and R.C. Burckhardt (b.10.05.1929), Basel, Switzerland, thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 74.51.197, for similar.

CONDITION
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