Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 27*
Six Roman green glass vessels 6
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,530 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
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Six Roman green glass vessels
Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
Comprising an amphoriskos with twin trail handles, the slender ovoid body with vertical ribs, tapering to a rounded base, 15cm high; a twin-handled jar with broad collar rim, the globular body with ten indentations, 8cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the applied handle folded at the rim to form a thumb-rest, the body with four pronounced dimples, 10cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the compressed spherical body with a fine trail spiralling from the shoulders to the ring base, an applied triple-pinched handle with thumb rest, 9cm high; a double balsamarium, the conjoined tubular phials with undulating looped trail extending down either side, 10.5cm high; a pilgrim flask, Roman-Byzantine, the rounded body with two dimpled indentations, the cylindrical neck with a trailed pie-crust pattern above the shoulders, 10cm high (6)
Circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
Comprising an amphoriskos with twin trail handles, the slender ovoid body with vertical ribs, tapering to a rounded base, 15cm high; a twin-handled jar with broad collar rim, the globular body with ten indentations, 8cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the applied handle folded at the rim to form a thumb-rest, the body with four pronounced dimples, 10cm high; a trefoil-lipped jug, the compressed spherical body with a fine trail spiralling from the shoulders to the ring base, an applied triple-pinched handle with thumb rest, 9cm high; a double balsamarium, the conjoined tubular phials with undulating looped trail extending down either side, 10.5cm high; a pilgrim flask, Roman-Byzantine, the rounded body with two dimpled indentations, the cylindrical neck with a trailed pie-crust pattern above the shoulders, 10cm high (6)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Amphoriskos: Property from the Collection of Gerd Lester; Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 390 (part).
Jar: Property of Dr Fred Pruslin; Sotheby's, New York, 12 December 1991, lot 351.
Trefoil-lipped jug: with Barakat Gallery, Beverly Hills, (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, G42).
Trefoil-lipped jug: with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 1987.
Double balsamarium: Asprey Antiques Ltd., London, 7 May 1997
Pilgrim flask: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 29 November 1990.
All: Private collection, U.S.
For a similar twin-handled jar with indentations in the body see the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, acc. no. 72.1.9.