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LOT 0130
Roman Iridescent Green Glass Trefoil Jug
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 5/8 in. (83 grams, 11.8 cm).
With a globular, dimpled body, a tapering neck with a trefoil mouth, and an applied strap handle to the rear.
ProvenanceSotheby's, New Bond Street, London, 8 July 1994, no.35.
Private collection, Suffolk.
Cf. The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 6.1.4, for a broadly comparable jug.
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