Roman Dark Blue Glass Bowl

1st century BC-1st century AD. A Roman or Hellenistic blue glass bowl with carinated body and shallow kick-up to base, wheel-cut bands encompassing the body at the neck and equator. See Solid Liquid: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Glass, Fortuna Fine Art, New York, 1999, p. 66, fig. 111, for similar; see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 91.1.1235. 93 grams, 83mm (3 1/4"). Property of a London gentleman; before that in the private collection of a Kensington collector; previously in the collection of Mrs Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach, Germany; acquired from the collection of Fernand Adda, formed in the 1920s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10866-178323.
Condition Report: Very fine condition.