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LOT 0805
Roman Decorated Glass Flask
1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 5/8 in. (50 grams, 11.8 cm).
With piriform body, tubular neck with flat rim, applied undulating amber glass trail below the mouth.
Provenance
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 268, for type.
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