A Roman amber glass beaker

1ST CENTURY A.D.

細節

A Roman amber glass beaker
1st Century A.D.
With translucent streaking, the body tapering towards an everted cut-off rim, two faint wheel-cut lines around the lower body, the base pushed-in with small protuberance in interior, 2½in. (6.4cm.) high; another beaker, clear glass, with wide flaring mouth, the body decorated with bands of encircling faint wheel-cut lines, 4¾in. (11.9cm.) high; another, each with fold above the base, the vertical sided body with flaring mouth, 2 7/8in. (7.4cm.) high, 1st-2nd Century A.D.; and a late Roman highly polished green glass bowl, of hemispherical form, with convex profile below the sharply cut-off rim, 4th Century A.D., 5 1/8in. (13.3cm.) diam.; 1¾in. (4.5cm.) high (5)

來源

Item five: reputedly found near Maastricht, The Netherlands.

拍品專文

The absence of wear on the rim of item five suggests that this bowl may have been intended originally for burial use and was probably deposited in a sealed grave. A similar, but slightly larger, bowl was found in Grave VI at Herstal, Belgium and is now in the Musée Curtius, Liège (cf. M. Vanderhoeven, "Verres romains tardifs et mérovingiens du Musée Curtius" in Journées Internationales du Verre, Liège, 1958, pp. 53-56, no. 56, pl. 15; and W. Haberey, "Spätantike Gläser aus Grabern von Mayern" in Bonner Jahrbücher, CXLVII, 1942, pp. 249-284, fig. 7b). Another similar bowl was recovered from a grave in Cologne together with a glass jug and a greyware pottery jar (illustrated in J. M. Morin-Jean, La Verrerie en Gaule sous l'empire romain, Paris, 1922/3, rev. ed. 1970) p. 266, fig. 346c.

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