49. Roman amphora with trailing, c.3rd-4th century AD
Glass
Height: 17.5cm
11450 IVP
£ 7,500.00
Free-blown in transparent, pale blue-green glass with applied opaque red trail. The latter has been trailed around the upper part of the cylindrical neck, the ovoid body is set on...
Free-blown in transparent, pale blue-green glass
with applied opaque red trail. The latter has been
trailed around the upper part of the cylindrical
neck, the ovoid body is set on a tubular ring
base with pontil mark, a pair of handles drawn
from the shoulder to the lower part of the neck,
in line with where the trailing stops, with funnel
mouth with inward-folded rim. Intact, trailing in
area between the handles is broken away.
Provenance
Pars Antiques, London, UKCharles Ede Ltd, London, UK; acquired from the above 14th July 1997
Paul E. Cuperus, Laren, the Netherlands; acquired from the above 18th March 2000
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above on the 18th August 2015, collection no.316
Publications
Charles Ede Ltd, Ancient Glass XIX (London, 1999), no.31Paul Cuperus, The Paul E. Cuperus Collection (2009), no.PEC 036
