Inv. n°: MMoCA544

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, 28th April 2010, lot 202

Publications

  • Bonhams London, 28th April 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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