A Roman glass footed bowl
Probably Egypt, circa 5th-6th Century A.D.
Yellow-green in colour, the rim folded outwards, with short vertical sides and convex base with domed kick, the separately-applied flaring foot with criss-cross tooling on the exterior, 16.2cm diam.注脚Provenance:
Private collection, Perthshire, formed from 1900-1965; and thence by descent.
Property from a Perthshire House; the Estate of the late Ellen Broun; Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 29 September 2016, lot 714 (part).
Private collection, Edinburgh, acquired from the above sale.

As with the previous lot, the decorative tooling on the foot of the present lot is paralleled on shallow circular bowls discovered at Karanis in Fayum, Egypt, and published by D.B. Harden in 1936 (Roman Glass from Karanis, Oxford; see no. 83 for a very similar bowl, now at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, acc. no. 0000.00.58910).