73. Roman tankard, 3rd-4th century AD
Glass
Height: 16.8cm
10698
£ 2,900.00
Free-blown in clear olive-green glass. The tankard, with particularly thin walls, has a piriform body with low, rounded belly, handle drawn from the body and attached to the wide mouth...
Free-blown in clear olive-green glass. The
tankard, with particularly thin walls, has a
piriform body with low, rounded belly, handle
drawn from the body and attached to the wide
mouth above which rises the thumb rest, set
on an integral moulded foot. Intact, with thick
pearl-like iridescence on the interior.
Provenance
Art market, FranceM. Lottmann, Paris, France; acquired from the above in the 1960s-70s
An old collection note in Mr Lottman's hand reads ‘Carafe á large embacchuse cuffelée [?] prochous (Arctonkisa) Roman II 3e4e ciecle'
