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.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London, 8 July 1994, no.35.
Private collection, Suffolk.

Literature

Cf. The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 6.1.4, for a broadly comparable jug.

CONDITION

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Ex Sotheby's, London, 1994

LOT 0130