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LOT 0968

Roman Glass Toilet Bottle

1ST CENTURY A.D.

4 in. (73 grams, 10 cm).

With globular body, short everted rim and cylindrical neck, concave base.

Provenance

Ex London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 190, for the type.

Footnotes

The bottle should be associated with Isings form 6 or Tommaso type 7. Small bottles of this typology are among the earliest known blown glass. The everted rim seems to distinguish examples made in Italy and the western Mediterranean provinces from those of the Eastern Mediterranean, on which the rim is usually folded in the form of a flange.

CONDITION

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LOT 0968

Roman Glass Toilet Bottle

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

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