30. Roman sprinkler, c.3rd-4th century AD
Glass
Height: 7.9cm
11451 IVP
£ 2,600.00
Free-blown in translucent, amber-yellow glass. The pear-shaped body decorated with two rows of six pinched projections, the short cylindrical neck constricted at the base, the flared mouth with in-folded rim....
Free-blown in translucent, amber-yellow glass. The pear-shaped body decorated with two rows of six pinched projections, the short cylindrical neck constricted at the base, the flared mouth with in-folded rim. Three of the pinched projections damaged at tips, otherwise intact.
Provenance
Private collection, USAAnonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13th December 1977, consigned by the above
Hans Benzian, Switzerland; acquired from the above
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 7th July 1994
Private collection, UK; acquired from the above
Art market, London, UK
Anonymous sale: Christie's, London, 3rd July 1996, consigned by the above
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, collection number 028a
Exhibitions
Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, Netherlands, "Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit", 29th April-28th August 2011, exhibition no.126Literature
Compare E. Marianne Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass 10 BCE-700 CE: Ernesto Wolf Collection (Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001), p.248, cat.no.134Publications
Sotheby's, London, The Benzian Collection of Ancient and Islamic Glass, 7th July 1994, lot 124Christie's, London, Fine Antiquities, 3rd July 1996, lot 309
