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LOT 0902
Roman Miniature Glass Group
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 1 1/4 in. (14 grams total, 18-30 mm).
Comprising: a blue ewer with applied trails to the body; slender vase with applied handle; two small bottoms of toilet bottles with trails in contrasting colours. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of Mr K.A., acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. for a blue toilet bottle with a similar terminal Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 1997, item 702.
Footnotes
Some fragments of this small group belong to the category of glass toilet bottles decorated with a single trail of glass dropped onto the bottom of a spike, drawn up, then wound around wall and lower neck.
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