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LOT 0170
Roman Green 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.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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.2, New York, 2001, items 742, 744.
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