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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS SNAKE-THREAD GOBLET
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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS SNAKE-THREAD GOBLET

3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS SNAKE-THREAD GOBLET
3RD CENTURY A.D.
With waisted body, on high flaring foot, the body decorated with applied snake-thread trails, the large flat 'heads' and some of the large applied trails with impressed chequerboard pattern, repaired with some restoration
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Formerly in a European private collection, acquired in the 1980s.

Specialist note

Although the technique of snake-thread decoration was mastered in the Rhineland, the process was certainly used in the Near East, primarily along the Syro-Palestinian coast.

For related vessels, cf. O. Doppelfeld, Römisches und fränkisches Glas in Köln, Cologne, 1966, pp. 52-57, pls. 113-117; and Exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Luzern, 1981, pp. 107-109, nos. 425-428.