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LOT 0734
Roman Green Glass Flask
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (37.1 grams, 10.2 cm).
Aqua glass with broad piriform body, dimpled base, tapering tubular neck with everted rolled rim; chipped. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 268, for type.
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