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A large Roman amber glass tall-necked jug image 1
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A large Roman amber glass tall-necked jug

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6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A large Roman amber glass tall-necked jug
Likely Italy, circa early 1st Century A.D.
22.4cm high

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Provenance:
Private collection, France.
with Bailly Pommery, Voutier & Associés, Paris, June 2004.
The David G. Giles (1940-2022) collection, London.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 202), acquired from the above on the 1 March 2007.

Published:
J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p. 58.

Exhibited:
Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, NL, "Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit", 29 April – 28 August 2011, exhibition no. 63.

Tall-necked jugs are among the earliest luxury Roman glass tableware, imitating pottery jugs. The elegant handles, this example with four ribs, were made with great care and precision. For a close parallel in pale green glass, see E. Marianne Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass from the Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 2001, p. 92, no. 30; another in blue-green was sold as part of the Benzian collection by Sotheby's, 7 July 1994, lot 153.

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