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Lot 97

A Sidonian marbled glass amphoriskos
and an After the Antique colour-band glass flask,
2

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Sidonian marbled glass amphoriskos
Circa 1st Century A.D.
Of amber and white marbled glass, mould blown with a band of scroll decoration, 8.3cm high; and an After the Antique colour-band glass flask, formed from canes of purple and opaque white reticelli, blue, amber, opaque white, and transparent green vertical bands, a rib at the base of the elongated neck, 11.5cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Private collection, UK, formed from the 1960s onwards.

The use of marbled glass for mould-blown vessels is extremely rare; cf. an example in the Toledo Museum of Art, reproduced in E. Marianne Stern, Roman Mold-blown Glass. The First through Sixth Centuries, Toledo, 1995, pp. 127-8, no. 34, pl. 52.

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