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A late Roman olive green glass pitcher

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

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A late Roman olive green glass pitcher
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
The ovoid body with cylindrical neck and pinched collar, a wide collar mouth, and a ribbed angular handle with tall thumb-rest, set on a broad collared foot, iridescence, 29.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Property of a gentleman.
Sotheby's, New York, 08 December 2000, lot 11.

Literature:
For similar examples, cf. N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage collection, 1997, for the general form, pp.214-5, no. 188; for the collared foot with strong Sasanian influence, p.219, no. 193.

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