A Roman pale green glass drinking horn

A Roman pale green glass drinking horn Western Empire, circa late 3rd - mid-4th Century A.D. The body forming an S-curve tapering to the closed pointed tip, applied vertical bands of zig-zag opaque turquoise and white trail applied before the body was twisted into shape, 32.5cm long Footnotes: Provenance: Private Collection, USA, since the early 1980s. With W. Bastiaan Blok, Noordwijk, Netherlands. David G. Giles Collection, London. Anonymous sale; Pierre Bergé, Paris, 17 June 2010, lot 258D. The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 258), acquired from the above sale. Rhytons or drinking horns were made with either an open or closed tip. When made with an open tip, the drinker held the rhyton in his raised hand and poured the liquid into his mouth and had to drink the liquid all at once. The closed-tip drinking horn, like this example, was used instead like a beaker. For a discussion on Germanic drinking horns, see Vera Evison, Germanic Glass Drinking Horns , pp.74-87, in The Journal of Glass Studies XVII (1975). This horn fits with Evison's Type I horn with pointed tip. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com