90. Roman beaker with wheel-cut lines, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 8.9cm
11537 IVP
£ 7,000.00
Further images
Free-blown in translucent, deep cobalt-blue glass. The straight-sided beaker has a cut-off rim, a single wheel-cut line beneath the top of the body and double lines towards the bottom, the...
Free-blown in translucent, deep cobalt-blue
glass. The straight-sided beaker has a cut-off
rim, a single wheel-cut line beneath the top
of the body and double lines towards the
bottom, the base flat. Intact.
Provenance
Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), Schweinfurt, Germany; acquired 1960sLiterature
Compare Sotheby's, London, The Constable-Maxwell Collection of Ancient Glass, 4th–5th June 1979, no.224