Lot Essay
For the wheel-abraded pattern see no. 60 in E.M. Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE-700 CE, Ernesto Wolf Collection.
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CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A LATE ROMAN GLASS JAR
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Olive green in color, free blown, the tapering cylindrical body flaring toward the carinated shoulders, with a wide neck and an everted mouth, the rim folded in, on a slightly kicked base, the body with wheel-abraded motifs of opposing interlocking pentagons, each centered by an oval facet, flanked above and below by hatching
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Olive green in color, free blown, the tapering cylindrical body flaring toward the carinated shoulders, with a wide neck and an everted mouth, the rim folded in, on a slightly kicked base, the body with wheel-abraded motifs of opposing interlocking pentagons, each centered by an oval facet, flanked above and below by hatching
6 5/8 in. (16.9 cm.) high
Provenance
with Gawain McKinley, London, 31 January 1980.
Thereafter acquired by the current owner, New York.
Thereafter acquired by the current owner, New York.
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