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LOT 0202
Roman Wheel-Cut Clear Glass Bowl
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (87 grams, 11.4 cm).
Hemispherical in profile with a broad base, bands of wheel-cut horizontal lines to the inner face.
Provenance
Private collection, USA and Switzerland, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Marin, E., Vickers, M., The Rise and the Fall of an Imperial Shrine, Split, 2004, p.194-195, and catalogue 33, for a similar bowl.
Footnotes
Such bowls are related to the form of Terra Sigillata according to several scholars. The period of their widest use is between 70 and 130 A.D. It was widely used throughout the western parts of the Empire, and especially in Italy. Similar bowls could also be found in the Eastern Mediterranean and were probably produced in Italic workshops, since there are numerous finds in Ticino.
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