
AN EARLY IMPERIAL ROMAN AQUAMARINE BLOWN GLASS CARCHESIUM, OR KRATERISKOS

Isings form 36a
Köln or Aquilea, 2nd half of the 1st Century AD
Height: 13.7 cm. (5 3/8 in.)
Width: 15.7 cm. (6 3/16 in.)
intact
Ex: German family collection, 1960s–1970s by repute, thence a Swiss private collection. Swiss market by 1991.
#9780
Published:
Antiquarium; Ancient Treasures XX. (London, 2022) p.36
Comparanda:
Whitehouse, David ; Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass v.1 (Corning, 1997)
Kunina, Nina ; Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection (St. Petersburg, 1997) no.184