Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 363, p. 211 in Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, who lists additional parallels, including two found at Pompeii.
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CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN "SPLASHED" GLASS CARCHESIUM
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Transparent cobalt blue in color, free-blown, the surface embellished with applied opaque white and yellow patches, with a rounded bowl, carinated shoulders and tall flaring walls, the rounded rim folded out then in, and encircled by an applied opaque white trail, on a low hollow conical foot, with twin opposed vestigial handles, the surface now highly iridescent
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Transparent cobalt blue in color, free-blown, the surface embellished with applied opaque white and yellow patches, with a rounded bowl, carinated shoulders and tall flaring walls, the rounded rim folded out then in, and encircled by an applied opaque white trail, on a low hollow conical foot, with twin opposed vestigial handles, the surface now highly iridescent
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1980, lot 75.