Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 19*
A Roman glass spoon and a Roman glass cosmetic implement 2
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
A Roman glass spoon and a Roman glass cosmetic implement
Circa 1st-4th Century A.D.
The spoon of colourless glass, with small circular bowl and straight, hollow handle, tapering to a point, 14.4cm long; the rod of drawn and tooled yellow glass, spiralling clockwise from a tip to a disc head, 19.7cm long (2)
Circa 1st-4th Century A.D.
The spoon of colourless glass, with small circular bowl and straight, hollow handle, tapering to a point, 14.4cm long; the rod of drawn and tooled yellow glass, spiralling clockwise from a tip to a disc head, 19.7cm long (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Spoon: with Hadji Baba Ancient Art, London.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 21 April 1998.
Rod: Private collection, London.
with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, acquired from the above in 1998.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in 1999.
Glass spoons are rare survivals. Cf. an almost identical spoon in colourless glass, formerly in the Pierpont Morgan Library collection and now in the Corning Museum of Glass, acc. no. 54.1.105.
The glass rod is either a cosmetic implement, or a stirring rod. For a general discussion of this type of object, see M. Spear, Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum. Beads and Other Small Objects, Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 262-5, 385 and especially no. 635, made in light greenish glass with a white spiral trail.