COLLECTION OF ROMAN GLASS BRACELETS

Ca. AD 1 - 300. A collection of three glass bracelets, including, from top to bottom: a honey-brown annular bracelet formed from a wound rod with pronounced spiral ribbing and an overlapping fused join; a dark cobalt example of heavier profile with close-set oblique ribs and a prominent lapped terminal; and a slender ring of flattened section. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Object Number: 74.51.344; C. S. Lightfoot, The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art (Glass), Cat. 490, 494. Size: 40-80mm x 40-82mm; Weight: 30g Provenance: Private London collection; previously acquired from a New York private collection formed in the 1980s.