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LOT 0934
Roman Transluscent Glass Wide Bottomed Bottle
CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/8 in. (30.5 grams, 13.7 cm).
With a wide discoid base, conical body with slender neck and expanding rim; old label reading 'Weachler's Gallery 690'.
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Lloyd and Jeanne Raport, Washinton D.C.
and Florida, formed between 1972-2000.
Estate auction, Weschlers, Maryland, 10 June 1984, lot 690.
See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass: The Corning Museum of Glass, volume I, New York, 1997, item 315, for the type.
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LOT 0934
Roman Transluscent Glass Wide Bottomed Bottle
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£100 (EUR 116; USD 135) +BP*
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1st-3rd century A.D. and laterEstimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
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UK private collection assembled 1970s-90s, and thence to the liquidated state of above. -
Roman Bronze Situla Mount with Gorgoneion
1st-2nd century A.D.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising a horizontal bar with a ledge to the reverse and base of loop above, segmented median panel, discoid panel beneath with facing male mask surrounded by radiating billets. 84.9 grams, 65 mm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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1st century B.C.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Discoid in plan with intaglio perching eagle, wings partly extended; supplied with an impression. 0.35 grams, 9 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
