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Lot 158*

A Roman pale olive-brown glass goblet

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

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A Roman pale olive-brown glass goblet
Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
The bowl with moulded vertical ribbing, set on a short hollowed stem on a circular folded foot, formed from a single paraison of glass, 7.4cm high, 7.4cm diam.

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 84.
Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.

For examples with faint ribbing in The Corning Museum of Glass and the Ernesto Wolf Collection, cf. K. A. Larson, Ancient and Islamic Glass from The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, pp. 90-1, no. 36, and E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE - 700 CE. Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, p. 309, no. 172.

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