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A large Roman pale yellow glass jug

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A large Roman pale yellow glass jug
Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.
The bulbous body set on an applied thick green glass coiled base, with rope-twist amber handle, the base of the neck with a band of spiral decoration, the flared mouth with in-folded rim, 23cm high

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Provenance:
with Aaron Gallery, London.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 13 May 1994.

This large and slightly bulky jug is highly unusual and probably reflects a local production, maybe in the Rhineland. To date, it has been possible to only identify two others examples. The first, a small example at 16.2 cm high and made in light olive-green glass was purchased from a dealer in Nijmegen by the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, in 1951 (inv. no. M 1951/5.1; W. Braat, 'The glass collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden at Leiden', Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden 44, p. 109, no. 20, pl. XXXIX). It was subsequently published by Fritz Fremersdorf as 2nd-century CE and found in Cologne, and it possible that it could have been made in one of the glass-houses there (F. Fremersdorf, Das naturfarbene, sogenannte blaugrüne Glas in Köln, Die Denkmäler des Römischen Köln IV, Cologne, 1958, p. 34, pl. 52). The second example, without provenance, is the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (B. Caron & E. P. Zoïtopoúlou, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Vol. 1, The Ancient Glass, Leiden and Boston, 2008, pp. 86-7, no. 77). Slightly larger than the Leiden jug at 19 cm, it too is made in olive-green glass, although the Bonham's jug is the largest and has the remains of amber-coloured glass pontil.

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