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LOT 0738
Roman Colour-Banded Mosaic Glass Bottle
EARLY-MID 1ST CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (20 grams, 76 mm).
From fused canes of opaque white, yellow, pale blue and dark blue, then inflated; the pear-shaped body with a flat base and cylindrical neck, the rim folded out.
ProvenanceAmerican private collection, 1990s.
with Christie's, New York, 16 June 2006, no.4.
From the private collection of Sheik Al Thani.
Accompanied by a copy of the Christie's lot listing.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 268, for type.
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