




The Schefler Collection (Lots 68-110)
Lot 89*
A Roman pale green mould-blown glass cup with Greek inscription
4 December 2025, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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A Roman pale green mould-blown glass cup with Greek inscription
Circa 1st Century A.D.
The central band inscribed ΕΥΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI 'be glad that you have come,' between raised encircling bands, a frieze of gadrooning below 5.5cm high
The central band inscribed ΕΥΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI 'be glad that you have come,' between raised encircling bands, a frieze of gadrooning below 5.5cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Schefler Collection, New York, acquired in the mid-1990s.
For an example in a different mould, cf. D.B. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass. Volume Two, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2001 pp. 23-4, no. 487. For an example with the same inscription, see E.M. Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass, The First Through Sixth Centuries, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1995, p. 97, no. 1, and The Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4-5 June 1979, lot 312.