A ROMAN OBSIDIAN SKYPHOS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN OBSIDIAN SKYPHOS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
With everted rim and grooved ring foot, the handles with a ring for the fore-finger, framed with scrolling thumb-rest above and finger-rest below, the body engraved with stippled band of stylised vine with berries, with bands of diagonal lines above and below
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high; 5¼ in. (13.4 cm.) diam.

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Ludwig Herinek collection, Vienna; acquired 1970s.

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This skyphos is an exceptionally rare survival from the Roman period. Engraved obsidian vessels are mainly known from fragments, however the unusual stippled decoration on this skyphos are without parallel. For an engraved fragment of a plate dating to the same period, cf. S. M. Goldstein, Pre-Roman and Early Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 1979, p. 285, no. 858. For a larger obsidian cup with Egyptianizing inlay see fig. 9.5, p. 284 in S. Walker and P. Higgs eds., Cleopatra of Egypt, from History to Myth, London, 2001. For an undecorated skyphos cf. Christie's, New York, 5 & 6 December 2001, lot 626.