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LOT 0811
Roman Glass Unguentarium
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (97 grams, 15.5 cm).
With piriform body and flat base, tall neck with waisted joint to body, mouth with everted rim; old collector's labels to underside 'L-15439' and '2970'. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith H.A.C., Basel, prior 1999.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 772, for type.
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Roman Tall Glass Unguentarium
2nd-3rd century A.DSold for (Inc. bp): £104
Tall iridescent vessel with wide foot and dimpled base, tapering stem and flared rim, two small holes, repaired. 12.5 grams, 14.5 cm
Ex London art market 1990s. From a London, UK, collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Roman Silver Eagle Statuette
1st-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Modelled in the round with wings folded flat against the sides, legs bent, feet absent. 6.48 grams, 30 mm
From an English collection formed before 2000. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Possibly a fitting from a vessel. -
Roman Inked Reused Wooden Wax Tablet For a Contract Negotiated and Agreed at Titiiuni between Maianus and Silvanus
Early 4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,350
Well preserved rectangular tablet inscribed in Roman cursive script, on the outer face the beginnings of a contract and the signatures of witnesses, the inner side with a recessed panel inscribed with fourteen lines of Roman cursive script, on the outer face right of the sulcus the signatures of five witnesses, to the left the beginning of the contract: 'the pactum et conventum was made between Maianus, son of Dontiquus, and a person called Silvanus; Maianus was born shortly before A.D. 281 and reached an advanced age as he is still attested after AD 360'; the text consists inter alia of typical Roman legal formula like stipulatus est … – spopondidit … - testati sunt …, including the note: Actum Titiiuni, which may be understood as ‘negotiated and agreed at Titiiuni’. 64 grams, 18.2 cm
Acquired by Albert Sfez in the early 1950s. Formerly the property of Monsieur Alain Sfez, a Belgian collector; acquired by gift from his father Albert Sfez, in 1965. Acquired by a London dealer in 1973. From an important London collection since 1975; thence by descent. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12525-230804. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
