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LOT 0954
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.
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