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The Jack Alfred Goldhill Collection of Ancient Glass (Lots 137-156)
Lot 155

A Roman dark amber glass appliqué with a lion's head, and ten glass discs with stamped ornament
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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 dark amber glass appliqué with a lion's head, and ten glass discs with stamped ornament

Circa 1st-5th Century A.D.
together with a restrung necklace of mosaic glass beads, lion's head appliqué 3.5cm high (12)

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Provenance:
Amber lion's head appliqué: The Property of Mr and Mrs Andrew Constable-Maxwell; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1979, lot 125 (part).
Mosaic bead necklace: acquired prior to 31 March 1980.
All: Jack Alfred Goldhill collection, UK, formed 1970s-1980s; and thence by descent to the present owner.

Moulded glass appliqués were attached to the body and handles of glass vessels as decorative ornaments; see D.B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, p. 118-119, nos 50 and 51 for examples of high-relief appliqués applied to the base of jug handles. See A. Antonaras, Fire and Sand, Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2012, p. 283, no. 462 for a lion's head example. For glass discs with stamped designs, see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 3, Corning, 2003, pp.27-43; Whitehouse suggests that the discs 'presumably were worn to bring good fortune, or to ward off the evil eye..others were tokens or weights' (ibid., p. 13).

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