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Lot 121

A Roman yellow glass stirring rod and a Roman green glass spoon or syphon
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The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A Roman yellow glass stirring rod and a Roman green glass spoon or syphon

Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
rod 23cm long; spoon 24cm long (2)

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Provenance:
S. Angibeaud (1898-2002) collection, France, formed in the 1960s.
French art market.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 22 October 2013, lot 156.
Property from a Princely Collection, acquired from the above sale.

For an example of a stirring rod formerly in the Ray Winfield Smith collection, cf. D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 3, Corning, 2003, pp. 52-3, no. 972. The present example is unusual in still having its sliding glass ring, that is believed to have acted as a stopper/cover for the vessel into which the rod was being dipped.

If the broken end of the spoon was originally hollow rather than closed, it may have been a siphon used for scooping up liquid out of a larger bowl. For a dark blue spoon with a hemispherical small bowl at the end of a long hollow handle see the Miho Museum, S.M. Goldstein et al., Ancient Glass, 2001, no. 161. The bottom of the bowl has been flattened so that it is stable when left on a surface.

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