Roman Marbled Blue Glass Toilet Bottle

1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

3 1/4 in. (19.7 grams, 83 mm).

An iridescent unguentarium with piriform body, tubular neck with everted rolled rim.

Provenance

Acquired on the European art market in 2001.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 213, for type.

Footnotes

This typology was produced mainly in Egypt (Karanis class XIII.B). They were characteristic of the Eastern Mediterranean as well, and characterised by the irregular curved depression on the underside of the base and by the narrow cylindrical neck with slight constriction at the bottom.

CONDITION

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