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Lot 22*

A Roman blue-green glass cinerary urn with lid
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24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman blue-green glass cinerary urn with lid
Western Empire, mid 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The free-blown vessel with ovoid body and broad folded rim, the wide conical lid with a discoid terminal, the knop missing, 10¼in (26cm) high (2)

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Provenance:
Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980. Thence by descent.

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