144. Roman amphora, c.250-350 AD
Glass
Height: 14.8cm
11453 IVP
£ 3,500.00
Free blown in pale yellow transparent glass, the globular body with pinched vertical ribs, a tall cylindrical neck and flaring mouth with everted rim, the ring base in blue-green glass....
Free blown in pale yellow transparent glass, the globular body with pinched vertical ribs, a tall cylindrical neck and flaring mouth with everted rim, the ring base in blue-green glass. Neck ring and applied handles in turqoise glass, drawn from the shoulder up the centre of the neck. Pearlesence to the exterior on the handles and base, further patches on the inteior to the body and the rim. Intact.
Provenance
Giorgio Sangiorgi (1886-1965), Rome, Italy, thence by descent. Sold 3rd June 1999Anonymous collection
Nico F. Bijnsdorp, the Netherlands; acquired 13th December 2013, collection number NFB 291
Publications
'G. Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi dalle Origini al V Sec. D.C., Milan, 1914, no.56, where it notes it has Rhenish origins.Christie's, New York, USA, Ancient Glass Formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection, 3 June 1999, lot 187
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 13 December 2013, lot 55'
