A Roman opaque white glass patella cup

1ST CENTURY B.C./A.D.

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A Roman opaque white glass patella cup
1st Century B.C./A.D.
On small ring foot, the cast bowl with convex carinated profile and deep 'collar', the rim rounded
3 1/8in. (8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning and New York, 1979, pp. 144-145, no. 297 for a similarly profiled white cup.

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