CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

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THREE ROMAN GLASS APPLIQUES AND A FINGER RING
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
24 mm. wide max.; ring size 'H'

Provenance

G. Sangiorgi collection (1886-1965), Rome.
Private collection, Monaco, 1970s; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

The lion mask appliqué shows remains of a vessel at the back, indicating that it was probably once attached to a large type of glass beaker decorated with rows of such mould-pressed lion masks, cf. H. Tait, Five Thousand Years of Glass, London, 1991, pp. 94-97, fig. 122.
The actor's mask represents the character of the first slave in the New Comedy, cf. Zwierlein Diehl, Die antiken Gemmen des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien, Vol. III, München, 1991, no. 2497.

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