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