63. Roman beaker with rod-pushed base, c.3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 7.6cm
11580 TA
Free-blown in transparent, olive-green glass. The beaker has thin walls making it especially light, the top pinched in before thickening at the rim and flaring outward and upward, the straight...
Free-blown in transparent, olive-green glass. The
beaker has thin walls making it especially light,
the top pinched in before thickening at the rim
and flaring outward and upward, the straight
walls curving sharply into a narrow base, the
bottom pushed in with a rod. Intact, the surface
is particularly clear.
Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 28th November 1979Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, 10th December 1996
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, inventory number 046e
Literature
Compare David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, (New York, 1997), no.425, p.249Publications
Christie's, London, Fine Antiquities, 28th November 1979, lot 12Sotheby's, London, Antiquities, 10th December 1996, lot 13
