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LOT 0743
Roman Green Glass Grape Pendant
1ST CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (1.46 grams, 22 mm).
Modelled as a bunch of grapes with an integral suspension loop.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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