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Property from a Princely Collection (Lots 103-136)
Lot 134

A Byzantine thick blue glass rod-formed balsamarium and a Byzantine opaque glass squat jar
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22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

£300 - £500

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A Byzantine thick blue glass rod-formed balsamarium and a Byzantine opaque glass squat jar

Circa late 4th-7th Century A.D.
11.5cm high, the jar: 4cm high (2)

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Provenance:
Balsamarium: Collection du Comte de..., formed from the end of the 19th Century; Thierry de Maigret, Paris, 16 April 2010, lot 23.
Jar: Anonymous sale; Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, 27 May 2008, lot 3456 (part).
Both Property from a Princely Collection, acquired at the above sales.

Cf. E.M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass, Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, no.78, p. 186.

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