Roman Green Glass Beaker with Blue Stipples

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.

3 1/2 in. (100 grams, 88 mm wide).

Beaker or lamp with convex wall and convex everted rim; applied blue glass ovals and clusters of stippled dots around the shoulder; iridescent surfaces.

Provenance

Paris collection, 1990s.
From an important Paris gallery, France.
Ex private Parisian collection.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession numbers 50.1.31 and 66.1.262, for similar form and decoration.

CONDITION

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LOT 0698