3rd-4th century AD. A wheel-cut glass beaker with U-shaped profile, shallow everted rim, convex base and outer face decorated with circumferential bands of wheel-cut oval facets. See The Corning Museum of Glass, accession numbers 54.1.119 and 54.1.81, for similar. 239 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; formerly in a Belgian private collection formed in the early 1980s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10798-177842. [A video of this lot can be viewed on the Timeline Auctions website]