Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Ashmolean Museum, Report of the Visitors, 1945, p. 7
Ashmolean Museum, Report of the Visitors, 1945, p. 7
Details
A TRANSLUCENT PALE GREEN GLASS CINERARY URN AND KNOPPED COVER, with concave base and flaring mouth with inward-folded rim, two double-looped thick applied vertical handles to either side, the flat disc-shaped lid with tall cylindrical knop, cracked under one handle, circa 2nd Century A.D.
12½in. (32cm.) high overall
12½in. (32cm.) high overall
Provenance
Excavated at Cumae
Edward Cheney Esq., of Badger Hall, Wolverhampton, who probably obtained it from Lord Holland
Sold, Christie's, 16 March 1977, lot 177
Edward Cheney Esq., of Badger Hall, Wolverhampton, who probably obtained it from Lord Holland
Sold, Christie's, 16 March 1977, lot 177
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum 1945-1976