7. Roman tall amphoriskos, Eastern Mediterranean, c.3rd-4th century AD
Glass
Height: 16.5cm
11583 TA
£ 4,900.00
Free-blown in clear blue-green glass. The body rising from an integral thickened foot with pontil mark, to a wide shoulder, the rim out- turned and inward-folded, a pair of pale...
Free-blown in clear blue-green glass. The body rising from an integral thickened foot with pontil mark, to a wide shoulder, the rim out-turned and inward-folded, a pair of pale green loop handles drawn from the wide shoulder to the bottom of the tall cylindrical neck. Intact.
Provenance
Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, USA; prior to 1991Anonymous Sale; Bonhams, London, 22nd September 1998
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, collection number NFB 077
Exhibitions
Thermenmuseum, Heerlen, the Netherlands, 'Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit', 29th April-28th August 2011, exhibition no.87Literature
Compare Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Ancient Glass from the Collection of Lord Michael Levy (London, 2021), no.113Publications
Fortuna Fine Arts, Shining Vessels: Ancient Glass from Greek, Roman and Islamic Times (New York, 1991), no.142Bonhams, London, Antiquities, 22nd September 1998, lot 247
