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Lot 10*

A Roman yellow-green glass pyxis

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £892.50 inc. premium

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A Roman yellow-green glass pyxis
Circa 1st-early 2nd Century A.D.
The reel-shaped body with folded curving ridges at the base and top of the walls, the sloping shoulder curving towards the circular opening, 6.8cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1997, lot 82.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above sale.

For a closely related example, and retaining the original lid, see A. Oliver Jr, Ancient Glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1980, no. 54, which is described as an inkwell.

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