Roman Green Glass Conical Cup

The deep cup with a cut-off and ground rim, two wheel-scratched bands on the exterior below the rim, decorated beneath with three large applied and marvered blobs in blue glass alternating with triangular groups of six smaller blue blobs.

h. 9 x ø 11.5 cm

First half of the 4th century AD

Glass

Provenance

Private UK collection, acquired in the 1970s
Acquired at Bonhams, London, April 28, 2010, lot 202

Publications

Bonhams London, April 28, 2010, lot 202, p. 103
M. Eiland, "Materials and Manufacture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 174, fig. 40

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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