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A Roman blue and white cameo glass fragment from a footed plate with reclining woman image 1
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A Roman blue and white cameo glass fragment from a footed plate with reclining woman image 3
A Roman blue and white cameo glass fragment from a footed plate with reclining woman image 4
The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 75*

A Roman blue and white cameo glass fragment from a footed plate with reclining woman

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Antiquities
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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A Roman blue and white cameo glass fragment from a footed plate with reclining woman

Late 1st Century BC - first quarter 1st Century A.D.
9.3cm x 5cm

Footnotes

Provenance:
Giorgio Sangiorgi Collection, Rome.
Ancient Glass formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection, Christie's, London, Thursday, 3 June 1999, lot 136.
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired at the above sale.

Published:
Giorgio Sangiorgi, Willhelm Freohner, Collezione di Vetri Antichi, Dalle Origini Al V sec. D.C. (Casa Editrice D'Arte Bestetti e Tummelli) Milano-Roma 1914, p. 49, no. 164, pl.XXXIII.

The 2010 catalogue of the cameo glass in the British Museum (P. Roberts, W. Gudenrath, V. Tatton-Brown, and D.B. Whitehouse, Roman Cameo Glass in the British Museum, British Museum Press, London, 2010), contains the largest collection of surviving vessels and fragments, showing the wide range of forms and plaques produced in early Imperial Rome, and the different levels of expertise in their cutting, with Giorgio Sangiorgi describing this fragment as being of "excellent craftsmanship" (op.cit. 1914, p. 49). Many vessels and plaques have Dionysiac scenes and it is not unreasonable to believe that this is another with a naked maenad captured in the moment of pouring wine (?) from a footed jug into a cup being held by a reclining Dionysus or another reveller surrounded by dancing figures contained within a circular border.

Saleroom notices

While the description should read the woman is depicted standing, the plate would have allowed her to be viewed from different angles, including the reclining position.

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