1. Roman patella cup, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 3.1cm, diameter: 6.3cm
11493 IVP
£ 2,800.00
Free-blown in opaque white glass. Fire-polished, rounded everted rim with a folded tubular flange creating a wide collar, the lower body convex and narrowing to the solid, pushed-in base ring....
Free-blown in opaque white glass. Fire-polished, rounded everted rim with a folded tubular flange creating a wide collar, the lower body convex and narrowing to the solid, pushed-in base ring. A small hole filled, some wear to the surface.
Provenance
Jack (1930-1996) and Jane (1936-2021) Weprin, New York, USA; acquired by 1991, thence by descent
Literature
Compare Anastassios Antonaras, Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, 2012), pp.109-110, nos.137-1401
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