1st-2nd century AD. A glass 'lotus bud' style beaker with tapering cylindrical body with two rows of raised 'pinched' lobes around the body, everted rim and shallow pontil to base. See The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 29.100.80, for broadly comparable vessel. 112 grams, 12.3cm (5"). Property of a London gentleman; before that in the private collection of a Kensington collector; previously in the collection of Mrs Petra Schamelman, Breitenbach, Germany; acquired from the collection of Fernand Adda, formed in the 1920s.