Sale 1163
New York
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12 December 2002
Price realised
USD 4,780
Estimate
A ROMAN GLASS RIBBED BOWL Circa Late 1st Century B.C.-Early 1st Century A.D. Amber in color, the hemispherical bowl sagged with sixteen vertical ribs, with three horizontal wheel cut grooves on the interior, two in the center of the bowl and one just below the rounded rim, on a flat base 2¼ in. (5.7 cm) high; 4½ in. (11.4 cm) diameter
Provenance
Fortuna Fine Arts, Ltd., New York, circa 1990
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For a similar example in the Ernesto Wolf Collection see no. 91, p. 312-313 in Stern and Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 BC-AD 50.
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