Rock crystal bowl - Lot 8

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Rock crystal bowl - Lot 8
Rock crystal bowl Late Roman Empire 4th-6th century H. 9.5 cm - D. 11.5 cm This canthara-type bowl features a molded base and two high, vertical, double-scroll handles; a running bird is engraved on the body. The rim features a later-period gilded and enameled copper mounting. Likely to have originated in the Late Antique region of the West, it was sculpted, according to Philippe Malgouyres*, in late Antiquity, between the 4th and 6th centuries CE. * Philippe Malgouyres, Au carrefour des empires, les vases en sardonyx prétendument byzantins, in Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, séance du 12 octobre 2022, pp 348/350 ill. Fig. 16
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