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Lot 29*

A Roman pale green glass jar with turquoise twin handles

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,402.50 inc. premium

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A Roman pale green glass jar with turquoise twin handles
Circa 4th Century A.D.
With collar rim, the pincered turquoise trail twin handles each with thumb-rest, the globular body with a band of raised turquoise zig-zag trail decoration around the middle flanked by a plain horizontal band of trail, 7.3cm high

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Provenance:
Reputedly found in Hebron.
with Barakat Galleries, Beverly Hills (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, GF358).
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.

There are examples of this type in the Louvre, Paris (V. Arveiller-Dulong & M-D. Nenna, Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005, p.422, no. 1174), and in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, acc. no. E 1342 (N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1997, p.333, cat. no. 406).

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