CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN CLEAR GLASS BEAKER
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (10 cm.) high

Provenance

with Robin Symes, London.
Plesch Collection, U.K. (no. AGh 10B), acquired from the above at the Buxton Antiques Fair, 1966.
The Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, Christie's, London, 28 April 2009, lot 6.

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This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

This particularly fine beaker belongs to a class identified by Isings as shape 36c, cf. C. Isings, Roman Glass from Dated Finds, Groningen, 1957, pp. 51-2; and A. von Saldern et al., Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer, Köln, 1974, p. 204, no. 573a.

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