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Lot 63*

A Roman glass lotus bud beaker

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman glass lotus bud beaker
Eastern Mediterranean or Italy, circa second half of 1st Century A.D.
Of yellowish green glass streaked with light purple, blown in a four part mould, the body decorated with five tiers of eight buds, slightly tapering towards the base, the base moulded with a raised circle and central dot, 12cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
With Hadji Baba Ancient Art, London, 1995.

Published:
M. Newby, The Beauty of Ancient Glass, Hadji Baba Ancient Art, London, 1995, p. 7, no. 35, front cover.

Literature:
The streaky pink and yellowish-green glass is a rarer combination of colour than is normally found on these mould-blown vessels. For the type which belongs to Isings form 31, cf. C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds, Groningen, 1957, pp. 45-6.

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