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LOT 1297
Byzantine Square Green Glass Flask
6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (34.7 grams, 49 mm).
With dimple to the underside, squat square body and wide everted rim.
Provenance
From an important London collection of glass, 1990s.
Literature
See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, items 643-645, for type.
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LOT 1297
Byzantine Square Green Glass Flask
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£81 (EUR 94; USD 109) +BP*
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