Roman Iridescent Glass High-Walled Vessel

CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

6 1/8 in. (171 grams, 15.6 cm wide).

Tall, sloping walls and a dimpled base; probably cut down from a larger vessel.

Provenance

From an important London, UK, glass collection, formed 1990s onwards.

Literature

Cf. Auth, S.H., Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, Newark, 1976, p.192, no.290, for a similar bowl; also Filarska, B., Szkla Starozytne (Ancient Glass), vol.II, Warszawa, 1972, II, cat.48, pl.XI,1.

Footnotes

This shape is a variety of hemispherical cups found in various materials and techniques during the first three centuries of the Empire. Clay cups of the same shape have been discovered alongside coins of Augustus in necropolises in Switzerland. An analogous form in glass appears in a cup fragment found at Karanis, Egypt, in a stratum dated to the 3rd century AD. The type of decoration is characteristic of the Syrian production centre during the 3rd century AD.

CONDITION

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