Roman Mould-Blown Dark Green Jar with Wheel-Cut Design

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.

3 5/8 in. (132 grams, 92 mm high).

Featuring a broad, low, round-bellied body with a wide, hollowed base, a short neck with a funnel-shaped mouth; incised festoon-like decoration on the body.

Provenance

From the collection of Sir Daniel Donehue; his collection was sold in the 2000s.
Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s.

Accompanied by a typed previous catalogue information page with provenance.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13440-263208.

Literature

Cf. Antonaras, A., Ancient Glass in the J.Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 2025, p.273, no.311, for the type of jar.

Footnotes

This jar belongs to a generic vessel form known from many eastern Mediterranean and European sites and dated to the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. Characteristic are the annular pontil marks, patterned on the squat globular body.

CONDITION

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Extremely Rare

LOT 0179