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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.
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