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A ROMAN BLUE GLASS PATERA HANDLE, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C./MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Auction Closed
July 2, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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A ROMAN BLUE GLASS PATERA HANDLE, CIRCA LATE 1ST CENTURY B.C./MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
cast and cut with a canine head terminal, wheel-cut grooves on top, part of the rim of the patera remaining.
Length 17.2 cm.
Julien Gréau (1810-1895), Paris
John Pierpont Morgan, Sr. (1837-1913), New York
probably sold at Anderson Galleries, New York, 1928, as part of the hundreds of deaccessioned ancient glass fragments from the Gréau Collection originally donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by J. P. Morgan, Jr., in 1917
Christie's, London, September 23rd, 1998, no. 371, illus.
Christie’s, London, April 2nd, 2014, no. 177, illus.
Published
Wilhelm Froehner, Collection Julien Gréau. Verrerie antique, émaillerie et poterie appartenant à M. John Pierpont Morgan, Paris, 1903, p. 153, no. 1110, pl. 192,8.