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A late Roman yellow glass jug
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A late Roman yellow glass jug
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
The pear-shaped body with a pinched collar on the shoulder, an applied flaring foot, the long angular handle with tall thumb-rest, the rounded rim turned down and in, with iridescence, 32.4cm high
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
The pear-shaped body with a pinched collar on the shoulder, an applied flaring foot, the long angular handle with tall thumb-rest, the rounded rim turned down and in, with iridescence, 32.4cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Proprty of a gentleman.
Sotheby's, New York, 08 December 2000, lot 15.
Property from an English private collection, acquired in the third quarter of the last century.
Literature:
For a similar form, cf. N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage collection, 1997, pp.214-5, no. 188.
























