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LOT 0846

Roman Glass Flask

2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.

3 in. (10.77 grams, 77 mm).

Small unguentarium with piriform body, tubular neck with everted rolled rim.

Provenance

Private collection, UK.
Acquired by owner's grandmother in the early 1940s.
with Christie's, London, 24 August 2009, no.TBC.
Private European collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

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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LOT 0846

Roman Glass Flask

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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