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LOT 0721
Roman Byzantine and Islamic Glass Vessel Collection
1ST CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
1 1/2 - 3 3/4 in. (387 grams total, 40-97 mm).
A group of eight glass vessels from the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic civilisations, of various types and dates: a pale green bulbous jar with a flared neck and rim, blobs to the neck and shoulder; a green bottle with waisted cylindrical body and short neck decorated with raised vertical ribs and hatching; a miniature piriform green bottle with globular foot and slightly flared neck; a clear glass miniature bottle of squat form, with a tubular neck and remains of iridescence to the internal surface; a pale green bottle with a squat body, long tubular neck and everted rim; a piriform green bottle with high shoulder and rounded base, tubular neck; a barrel-shaped pale blue vessel with inverted rim; an amber-brown coloured vessel of carinated form, wheel-cit bands to the equator and rim. [8, No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1960s-1990s.
From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister.
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