Large Roman Flattened Form Glass Pilgrim's Flask

2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

6 3/8 in. (86 grams, 16.2 cm).

With flattened discoid body, tubular neck with everted rolled rim, iridescent surface.

Provenance

From a specialist collection of glass, acquired from dealerships during the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. for similar The Metropolitan Museum, New York, item 74.51.67, in Lightfoot, C. S., The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass, New York, 2017, p.290, no.430.

CONDITION

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