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.

Provenance

American 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.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 268, for type.

CONDITION

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