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LOT 0698
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.
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LOT 0698
Roman Green Glass Beaker with Blue Stipples
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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