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Lot 143

A Roman green glass theatre mask medallion

28 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £535.50 inc. premium

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A Roman green glass theatre mask medallion
Alexandria, circa 2nd - 4th Century A.D.
Moulded in the form of a grotesque female mask, with furrowed brows and a large open upward-curving mouth, wearing a peruke, 3.5cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, Suffolk, acquired in Alexandria in 1918; and thence by decent until 2019.

For a closely-related example, see the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, inv. no. 59.1.159. It is likely this appliqué was once attached to a vessel, possibly beneath the handle.

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