Large Roman Deep Blue Glass Date Flask

1ST CENTURY A.D.

3 1/8 in. (41.7 grams, 80 mm).

Mould-blown with elliptical body, short neck and thick everted rim, with modelled wrinkles.

Provenance

Dr Gonik & Me Wirth, Geneva, 1970s.
Private collection, Europe.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12394-226935.

Literature

See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 631, for type.

CONDITION

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