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Lot 160*

A large Late Roman blue-green glass amphora

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

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A large Late Roman blue-green glass amphora
Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
With a band of trail decoration around the funnel neck, ribbed strap handles and piriform body, 24cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13-14 July 1981, lot 462.
with Barakat Galleries, Beverly Hills (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, GF3).
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.

For another example in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, cf. V. Arveiller-Dulong and M.-D. Nenna, Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre, vol. II, Paris, 2005, p. 388, no. 1041, pl. 90.

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