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LOT 0676
Large Roman Green Glass Bottle
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
8 1/2 in. (170 grams, 21.7 cm).
Aqua glass, with rounded shoulder, tubular neck tapering slightly and flaring towards the mouth; applied trail to the upper neck, pontil base; some fine encrustations, slightly iridescent; reassembled from fragments, with small lacuna.
ProvenanceProf. Skalweit, Bonn, acquired in the 1970s.
Two labels on the base: "92" and "09-22 DRR".
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.S00097255.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 217, for type.
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