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LOT 0880
Roman Green Glass Bottle
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 in. (22.7 grams, 11 cm).
With piriform body, dimpled base, tapering tubular neck with pinched and everted rolled rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London art market 1990s.
From a London, UK, collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 236, for type.
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