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LOT 0954

Sold for (Inc. bp): £338

ROMAN HIGHLY IRIDESCENT GLASS FLASK
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
6 7/8 in. (72 grams, 17.5 cm).

With piriform body, narrow dimpled base, tubular neck with pinched and everted rolled rim.

PROVENANCE:
Ex Mayfair, London, UK, gallery, 1990s-2000s.
From an important collection of glass, the property of a London gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 236, for type.

CONDITION
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