C. 1st Century AD

A beautiful translucent blue glass patella cup with a tapered body and a short slightly flared rim emerging from a folded flanged collar, which sits on a pad foot, with iridescence to surfaces.

Some light earthy surface deposits and in excellent condition with nice iridescence to surfaces.

Ref: Similar example in: Cf. S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, 1980, pp. 37-38, no. 106; and A. von Saldern et al., Gläser der Antike: Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer, Hamburg, 1974, p. 109, no. 295 for similar.

Provenance: Deceased estate of a Lady, Sheffield and then by decent, 1960’s-70’s.

Size: 82mm diam x 46mm height