Lot 128
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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS BOWL WITH VERTICAL HANDLE
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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS BOWL WITH VERTICAL HANDLE

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS BOWL WITH VERTICAL HANDLE
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The vertical handle rising out of the centre of the vessel, with leaf-shaped terminal, 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high; a heavy dark green glass unguentarium, with thick walls and base, multicoloured swirling iridescence; another similar, 3rd Century A.D., both 3½ in. (9 cm.) high; two pale blue glass lids, each of shallow concave form with rim curved down, both with silver iridescence, circa 3rd Century A.D., 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam. max.; and another with stepped profile, circa 1st Century A.D., 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam. (6)
Provenance
Item one: Carl Kempe collection (1884-1967): sold Bonhams London, 29 April 2004, part lot 172.
Items two-six: formerly in a German private collection, acquired in the 1960s-1970s.
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Lot Essay

Item one: cf. Exhibition catalogue, B. Massabo, Magiche Trasparenze. I vetri dell'antica Albingaunum, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Milan, 1999, p. 111, no. 77 for another example of this rare form which was found in the southern Necropolis of Albingaunum, a Roman port on the Ligurian coast to the west of Genoa.
Items four and five: cf. S. H. Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1976, p. 100, no 110 for similar.
Item six: cf. S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, 1980, p. 34, no. 97 for similar.

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