Roman carinated beaker with wheel-cut lines, c.1st-2nd century AD
Glass
Height: 11.2cm
11592 IVP
£ 3,800
Free-blown in transparent, colourless glass. The beaker has especially thin walls and is of waisted form, with concave sides and a wide, slightly thickened mouth which is mirrored by the wide base, the exterior decorated with bands of wheelcut lines. Intact, a particularly fine piece.
Pliny, in his Natural History XXXVI, 198, stated that "the most highly valued glass is colourless and transparent, as closely as possible resembling rock crystal".
Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, UK, 28th November 1979Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, UK, 10th December 1996
Private collection, the Netherlands; acquired from the above, inventory number 046b
Publications
Christie's, London, UK, Fine Antiquities, 28th November 1979, lot 14Sotheby's, London, UK, Antiquities, 10th December 1996, lot 13
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