Roman Pale Green Glass Candlestick Unguentarium

CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.

5 3/8 in. (29.8 grams, 13.6 cm).

With a bell-shaped body, a tall, pinched neck, and a flared and rolled rim to the mouth. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the collection of a late Norfolk, UK gentleman's collection, formed from the late 1960s-1970s.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.1, New York, 1997, item 268, for type; Lightfoot, C.S., The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass, New York, 2017, pp.258-259, nos.375-378, for similar unguentaria.

CONDITION

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