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LOT 0936
Roman White Elongated Glass Date Flask
1ST CENTURY A.D.
4 1/8 in. (4 3/4 in.) (13 grams, 10.5 cm (46 grams total, 12 cm including stand)).
Mould-blown with elliptical body, short neck and thick everted rim, with modelled wrinkles.
Provenance
From an important glass collection, London, UK, 1980-1990.
Literature
See Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, items 519-520, for type.
Footnotes
Bottles shaped like dates are among the most common varieties of 1st century mould-blows vessels. Examples have been discovered in most part of the Roman Empire, with a concentration of finds in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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