Roman Glass Beaker with Applied Glass Thread

Culture: Roman

Period: Early 4th century A.D.

Material: Glass

Dimensions: 11.5 cm high

Price: 1 200 Euro

Ref: 3646

Provenance: Private collection Dr. Peter Rudeck, Vienna, Austria. Acquired on 7 July 1992 from Gerhard Herinek in Vienna. With the original certificate.

Condition: Intact

Description: Roman beaker made of transparent, almost completely discoloured glass. The body with a concave wall. The rim is slightly pulled outwards, rounded and thickened. The massive base with remains of the sharp edges that were left when the piece was knocked off the punty was worked out from the wall and flattened. On the narrowest part of the corpus an encircling applied thread. In some parts with very beautifully silvery iridescence. See for the typus “Römisches, byzantinisches und frühmittelalterliches Glas – Sammlung Ernesto Wolf”, Hatje Cantz 2001, number 108. From Palastine.