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LOT 0733
Roman Wheel-Cut Glass Vessel
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (82 grams, 12.5 cm).
With globular body and long tubular neck, dimple base, everted rim with gusset to the outer edge; wheel-cut horizontal lines to the body.
Provenance
Ex London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.
Literature
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 433, for the type.
Footnotes
This bottle belongs to a group of globular bottles with cylindrical necks (some longer than others) and plain or collar-like rims, which are decorated with parallel and/or intersecting circles or combinations of circles and other motifs.
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