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LOT 0986
Roman Light Blue Glass Flask
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
6 1/8 in. (63 grams, 15.5 cm).
With squat bulbous body and broad shoulder, tapering neck with flared rim, dimpled base.
Provenance
From an important collection of glass, London, UK, 1990s.
Literature
See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 623, for the type.
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