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Lot 154*

A Roman moss green glass amphoriskos

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

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A Roman moss green glass amphoriskos
Circa 4th Century A.D.
With applied trail handles and pad base of turquoise with fine red stripes, the flared mouth with turned-in rim, the body blown into a finely ribbed mould, twisted to create spiral ribs and tooled to form a piriform body with ten vertical indentations, 19.2cm high

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Provenance:
with Asprey Antiques Ltd., London.
Private collection, USA, acquired on 7 May 1997.

For amphoriskoi of similar form and decoration but without the pad base, cf. V. Arveiller-Dulong & M-D. Nenna Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005, p. 387-388, figs. 1038-1040, and for another made in amber-coloured glass with turquoise rim coil, base and handles in the Ernesto Wolf Collection cf. E. Marianne Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE - 700 CE. Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, p. 209, no. 99.

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