A Faience Vase, Roman Period, circa 1st half of the 1st Century A.D.

glazed in deep aubergine on the exterior and in turquoise on the underside, interior, and top of the rim, with foot in two degrees, stepped shoulder, wide neck, broad flat rim, and twin flat handles, the turquoise-glazed petal or leafage ornament on the body in applied relief.

acquired between 1957 and 1962

Apollo Magazine, July 1962, cover illus.

Good for an object of this type, bottom of vessel broke off and was reattached, approximately three missing fragments near the foot were restored, the largest one 2 by 1.5 inches, five-inch long segment of wreath restored in painted plaster below left handle (in photo), handles repaired, several repairs on the neck with overpainting along the joins, glaze abraded along 1/4 of foot, one area with remains of old restoration
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Cf. G. Grimm, "Two Early Imperial Faience Vessels from Egypt," Miscellanea Wilbouriana, 1972, pp. 74-75, figs. 6-8, and Faïences. Faïences de l'Antiquité. De l'Égypte à l'Iran, A. Caubet and G. Pierrat Bonnefois, eds., Paris, 2005, p. 164, no. 500, and p. 185. Also see R.J. Charleston, Roman Pottery, London, pl. 41, and Sotheby's, New York, June 8th, 1984, no. 79.

For Denys Sutton see note to lot 15

See other view on p. 118