Lot Essay
Cf. D. B. Harden, Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, p.206, no. 114 for a similarly-shaped cut glass cup found in Cologne. This type of cup appears to have been widespread in the Rhineland.
Details
A ROMAN GALLO-RHEINISH GREEN GLASS TWO-HANDLED CUP
EARLY 4TH CENTURY A.D.
The body set on hollow conical foot, with handles pulled-out of the body wall and reattached at the underside of the twin pulled-out thumb-rests, the everted rim and foot rim both ground down, slight iridescence
3½ in. (8.9 cm.)
EARLY 4TH CENTURY A.D.
The body set on hollow conical foot, with handles pulled-out of the body wall and reattached at the underside of the twin pulled-out thumb-rests, the everted rim and foot rim both ground down, slight iridescence
3½ in. (8.9 cm.)
Provenance
Demealenaere Collection: sold Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3-4 June 1985, lot 498; and Sotheby's, London, 8 July 1993, lot 58.