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A ROMAN PALE BLUE GLASS LIDDED PYXIS OR INKWELL

1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN PALE BLUE GLASS LIDDED PYXIS OR INKWELL
1ST CENTURY A.D.
The cylindrical body with flanged folded base and similar collar around the shoulder, the hollow knobbed lid tapering towards the base and conical at the top, upper and lower part divided by a folded flange, some pale lilac iridescence
3½ in. (9 cm.) high incl. lid
Provenance
Plesch collection (AGh 9 lA); acquired from Sheppard and Cooper Ltd, London, October 1977.
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Lot Essay

Cf. S. H. Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, Newark, 1976, p. 119, no. 145 for similar, described as an inkwell; A. von Saldern et al., Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer, Köln, 1974, no. 298; and J. B. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1975, no. 129.

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