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Lot 148*

A Roman yellow glass jug with looped handle

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

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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A Roman yellow glass jug with looped handle
Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.
The body of ovoid shape terminating in a hollow folded ring base, the neck widening downwards, with a flaring rim, one opaque white stripe running through the quadruple-ribbed handle with looped thumb rest separately applied at rim and shoulder, 17.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 4 September 1991.

For a similar jug with looped thumbrest handle, see N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg, 1997, cat. no. 256.

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