159. Roman cup with low foot, c.2nd-3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 6.6cm
11299 IVP
£ 780.00
Free-blown in clear transparent glass but now covered in white opaque deposits on the interior. Of squat cylindrical form, decorated with twelve indents around the centre of the body, tapering...
Free-blown in clear transparent glass but now covered in white opaque deposits on the interior. Of squat cylindrical form, decorated with twelve indents around the centre of the body, tapering up to a broken off and fire-heated rim, the wide base tapering to a small tubular foot, with pontil mark. Decorated with twelve indents around the centre of the body and a single band of applied trailing above. Some areas of metallic iridescence, the foot has intense silver iridescence within the hollow form. A section of the lip broken off and restored, a hairline crack running vertically beneath it. Otherwise intact.
