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ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
A ROMAN GLASS JUG
CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GLASS JUG
CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Pale green in color, free-blown, with a spherical body, a long cylindrical neck and a funnel mouth, with an applied ring below the rim, a thick applied braided festoon low on the neck, on an outsplayed tooled foot, the ribbed strap handle pulled up from the shoulders, folded on the underside and over the interior of the rim
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Pale green in color, free-blown, with a spherical body, a long cylindrical neck and a funnel mouth, with an applied ring below the rim, a thick applied braided festoon low on the neck, on an outsplayed tooled foot, the ribbed strap handle pulled up from the shoulders, folded on the underside and over the interior of the rim
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne.
Ancient Glass, Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection; Christie's, London, 5-6 March 1985, lot 56.
Ancient Glass, Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection; Christie's, London, 5-6 March 1985, lot 56.
Literature
M. Kunz and B. Rütti, 3,000 Jahre Glaskunst, der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Lucerne, 1981, no. 440.
Brought to you by
Molly Morse Limmer
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