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LOT 0243
Sasanian Cut Glass Bowl
5TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (187 grams, 96 mm).
Rounded in profile and decorated with a dense frieze of wheel-cut facets.
Provenance
London art market, 1989.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12896-241337.
Literature
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 59.34, for similar; cf. Oliver, A. Jr., Ancient Glass, In the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, 1980, p.138, no.235, for similar.
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