24. Roman amphora with wheel-cut lines, 2nd-3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 22.9cm
11437 IVP
£ 9,000.00
Free-blown in transparent, light green glass. The high-shouldered body decorated with a series of encircling wheel-cut lines in bands of varying widths, the body tapering towards a pushed-out foot with...
Free-blown in transparent, light green glass. The high-shouldered body decorated with a series of encircling wheel-cut lines in bands of varying widths, the body tapering towards a pushed-out foot with slightly indented underside, the cylindrical neck with two handles dropped onto the shoulder and attached to the neck at right-angles. Intact.
Provenance
Sheppard & Cooper, London, UK; acquired prior to 1994C.A. Hessing, the Netherlands; collection no.37, with label on base, thence by descent to a niece
Anonymous Sale; Bonhams, London, 22nd September 1998, consigned from the above
Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, 17th March 1999, collection number 083
Publications
Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, Glass. The Eighth Wonder of the Ancient World, (London, 1994), p.9, no.50Bonhams, London, Antiquities, 22nd September 1998, lot 216 (front cover)
Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg, Archaeology-Ancient Coins (Amsterdam, spring 1999), no.102
Joop van den Groen & Hans van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit (Utrectht, 2011), p.116
