Roman Pale Green Glass Mould Blown Date Flask

1ST CENTURY A.D.

3 in. (16.22 grams, 78 mm).

With an elliptical body, short neck and thick everted rim, with modelled wrinkles imitating the texture of a dried date. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired from Millennium Antiquities, Lancashire, UK, in 2001.
From the collection of a Bedfordshire, UK lady.

Accompanied by an original Millennium Antiquities invoice dated 28 June 2001.

Literature

See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, items 519-520-521, for type; see also Stern, E.M., Ancient Glass at the foundation Custodia (Collection Frits Lug) Paris, Archaeologica Traiectina, Groningen, 1977, pp.44-46, for the diffusion of this typology inside the Mediterranean regions.

Footnotes

Dates were not only a staple of the Mediterranean diet, used to sweeten food and wine, but also a symbol for the New Year and a fruit often given as a gift on the occasion.

CONDITION

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