75. Roman amphoriskos with trailing, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 11.9cm
11440 IVP
£ 4,800.00
Free-blown in translucent yellow glass. The thin-walled vessel is decorated with fine trailing spiralling the entirety of the spherical body, the cylindrical neck leads to an out-turned and inward-folded lip,...
Free-blown in translucent yellow glass. The
thin-walled vessel is decorated with fine trailing
spiralling the entirety of the spherical body, the cylindrical neck leads to an out-turned and
inward-folded lip, handles drawn from just
beneath to halfway up the neck, pontil mark
on the underside of the raised base. Intact.
Provenance
C.A. Hessing, the Netherlands; collection no.64Property of C.A. Hessing; Bonhams, London, 22nd September 1998, unsold
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from Hessing, 3rd May 1999
Literature
A. von Saldern, B. Nolte, P. La Baume and T.E. Haevernick, Gläser der Antike, Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg, 1974), no.644Publications
Bonhams, London, Antiquities, 22nd September 1998, lot 234Kunsthandel M. Zilverberg, Archaeology-Ancient Coins (Amsterdam, Spring 1999), no.99
