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LOT 0693
Roman Glass Stirring Rod Group
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 - 4 3/8 in. (95 grams total, 3.3-11.3 cm).
Mixed group of glass rods and fragments, each with applied ornament in trails or granules. [10]
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
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