Lot 35
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A ROMAN GREEN BLOWN GLASS BEAK-SPOUTED JUG

2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

Details
A ROMAN GREEN BLOWN GLASS BEAK-SPOUTED JUG
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The squat globular body with kicked-in base, an applied trail around the shoulder and edge of base, the neck with flaring collared rim and stretched angled lip, with thick applied trail handle pinched and folded to form raised thumbrest above the rim, with cream iridescence
5½ in. (14 cm.) high
Provenance
Plesch collection (AGv 14hA); acquired from Galerie Arete, Zurich, January 1972.
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Lot Essay

Cf. F. Fremersdorf and E. Polonyi-Fremersdorf, Die Farblosen Gläser der Frühzeit in Köln, Köln, 1984, pp. 81-82, nos. 185-187; and N. Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, The State Hermitage, 1997, p. 308 ff., nos. 274-277, for similar.

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