A ROMAN AMBER GLASS RIBBED BOWL

CIRCA MID-1ST CENTURY A.D.

Details

A ROMAN AMBER GLASS RIBBED BOWL
CIRCA MID-1ST CENTURY A.D.
The squat hemispherical blown body with twenty vertical ribs pincered out of the body wall, the flaring mouth with cut-off rim and tooled mark below
3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Plesch collection (AGh 10); acquired from C. Sheppard, London, August 1983.

Exhibited

Strange & Rare; 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987 of The Glass Circle, Broadfield House Glass Museum and the
Pilkington Glass Museum, UK, 1987 -1988.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Strange and Rare; 50th Anniversary Exhibition 1937-1987 of The Glass Circle, Broadfield House Glass Museum and the Pilkington Glass Museum, UK, 1987-1988, no. 15a.

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