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Lot 141*

A Roman green glass aryballos with bronze handle

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman green glass aryballos with bronze handle
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
With disc rim, short cylindrical neck and globular body, the twin handles with bronze attachment rings and arching handle with conical terminals, 6.5cm high excl. handle

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Provenance:
with Sheppard and Cooper Ltd, London.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 6 October 1990.

For an example with similar bronze handle cf. S. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1980, p.32, no. 91. The carrying handle allowed the owner to take their perfumed oil containers to the baths in the same way that the Greeks carried pottery aryballoi to the gymnasion.

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