CIRCA LATE 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN PALE BLUE GLASS DISH
CIRCA LATE 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The shallow bowl with applied looped trail or 'snake' decoration on the underside, with infolded hollow-tubular rim, on a tubular base ring
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Private collection, Germany.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1996, lot 17.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 2002.

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Lot Essay

This type of bowl with an everted mouth and a small annular foot is sometimes found, further decorated with applied vermicular or wavy trailing, especially near the Belgian city of Tongeren, cf. F. Hanut, 'La vaisselle à décor vermiculaire en Belgique: chronologie et utilisation', in G. Creemers, B. Demarsin and P. Cosyns eds, Roman Glass in Germania Inferior. Interregional Comparisons and Recent Results, Atvatvca 1, Tongeren 2006, p. 117, fig. 1.13. Another bowl from a late 2nd to mid-3rd century grave was found in the necropolis of Wanzoul, Liège, cf. G. Destexhe, 'Le cimetière gallo-romain de Wanzoul', Archéologie Hesbignonne 8, 1989, p. 69, fig. 33. Further examples are known with applied 'snake-thread' decoration, like three bowls formerly in the collection of Ernesto Wolf, cf. E. M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval Glass 10 BCE-700 CE. Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, pp. 167-169, nos 63-65.

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