3rd-7th century AD. A squat pale green glass cup with rounded base and everted rim, seven bands of wheel-cut facets to the outer face. Cf. Whitehouse, D., Sassanian and Post-Sassanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, 2005, item 47, for type. 134 grams, 11cm (4 1/4"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s. [A video of this lot is available on TimeLine Auctions website]