A LATE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN AUBERGINE GLASS OVAL DISH

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LATE ROMANO-EGYPTIAN AUBERGINE GLASS OVAL DISH
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
The elliptical blown body with spiralling light and dark streaks, the sides flaring to outward-folded rim, the vertical base-ring foot with irregular rim, with shallow concave base, slight iridescence
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high; 10 in. (25.3 cm.) across

Lot Essay

Cf. D. B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, pp. 94 and 99, no. 41; and Glass from the Ancient World: The Ray Winfield Smith Collection, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1957, p. 127, no. 235, for similar.

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