ROMAN GLASS JUG WITH TREFOIL RIM
Ca. 200–300 AD.
A blue-green, free-blown glass jug featuring a broad ovoid body with a long cylindrical neck, an applied trail low on the neck and on the underside of the trefoil mouth, on an outsplayed tooled foot, the ribbed light blue strap handle pulled up from the shoulders, folded on the underside and over the interior of the rim. Cf. with a similar Roman jug sold at Christie's: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot 567300.
Size: L:184mm / W:110mm ; 163.2g
Provenance: Property of a North London gentleman; previously acquire on the UK/European art market in the 1980s. Exhibited: Olympia Art & Antiques fair, London June 2022.
Estimate: GBP 1500 - 3000