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LOT 0701

Roman Square Green Glass Flask

6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

2 in. (34.7 grams, 49 mm).

With dimple to the underside, squat square body and wide everted rim.

Provenance

From an important London collection of glass, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, items 643-645, for type.

Footnotes

The object is certainly Late Roman in shape, although similar typologies did also exist in early Islamic glasswork. The bottle was probably blown into a flat mould to produce the ribs, then expanded and tooled to form the body.

CONDITION
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LOT 0701

Roman Square Green Glass Flask

Estimate £180 - 240€210 - 280 (for guidance only)$240 - 320 (for guidance only)

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