A ROMAN GLASS GOBLET

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GLASS GOBLET
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Translucent dark blue in color, the deep ovoid beaker mold-blown and further inflated, with vertical fluting below the rim, elaborate honeycomb pattern on the body, the honeycombs distended toward the base, the rim flaring slightly and cut off, the profiled foot with a beaded stem
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

来源

International Art Market, acquired in 1995.

拍品专文

The expansion of the honeycomb pattern toward the base of this vessel was produced by further inflation of the glass after it was initially mold-blown. This method of manufacture was ascertained by the scholar Waldemar Haberey from the discovery of two similar vessels that had cooled before the further inflation was administered. For a similar example yellow-green in color, found near Tyre and Sidon, and references to the study by Haberey, see no. 284 in Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. For a dark blue example with twin handles and trailing, now in Berlin, see no. 22 in Effenberger and Severin, Das Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst.