Roman Glass Double Unguentarium

3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

4 3/8 in. (78 grams, 11 cm).

Pale green iridescent glass, two tapering tubes with rolled, everted rims, applied lateral triangular handles.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, items 742, 744.

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