Jar
Roman, 2nd – 3rd Century AD
Greenish translucent glass with iridescence.
H 12.6 cm
Free-blown bulbous corpus with small shoulder, concave base, wide funnel-shaped mouth with rim folded-in. The lower corpus is decorated with nine pinched X-shaped ornaments. Intact. An inscription on the base: NAZARETH.
LWRNC. 1889
Provenance
Lawrence collection 1889.
German private collection J. R. (1941-2021), acquired between 1960 and 1990 on the European art market – mainly in the 1970s and 1980s at auction sales in London.
Accompanied by an IADAA Interpol search certificate.
Price
€ 2,900
Item
7560