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LOT 0893
Roman Aubergine Glass Bottle with Iridescence
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 5/8 in. (10.9 grams, 68 mm).
With pear-shaped body and flat base, cylindrical neck, the rim folded out.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. The Corning Museum of Glass, accession number 74.1.19, for similar; cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 17.194.590, for similar.
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