Lot Essay
For the type see no. 396 in Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection.
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
TWO ROMAN GLASS JUGS
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
TWO ROMAN GLASS JUGS
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Each pale green in color, free-blown, with a spherical body, long cylindrical neck and funnel mouth, with a thick applied ring below the rim and for the foot, a thick applied braided festoon low on the neck, the wide flat handle bent at an angle with a high triangular projection above the rim
Taller: 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Each pale green in color, free-blown, with a spherical body, long cylindrical neck and funnel mouth, with a thick applied ring below the rim and for the foot, a thick applied braided festoon low on the neck, the wide flat handle bent at an angle with a high triangular projection above the rim
Taller: 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 December 2001, lot 179.
Brought to you by
G. Max Bernheimer
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