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LOT 0628
Roman Light Brown Glass Bottle
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
5 5/8 in. (69 grams, 14.4 cm).
Mould-blown, comprising a flat-based tubular body and short neck with returned flange rim.
Provenance
From an important collection of glass, London, UK, 1990s.
Literature
See Harden, D.B. et al, Masterpieces of Glass, London, 1968, item 78, for type; Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass: The Corning Museum of Glass, volume I, New York, 1997, item 308, for similar.
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