TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS

CIRCA 1ST-EARLY 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
Circa 1st-Early 2nd Century A.D.
Including an amber date flask, mold blown, the neck truncated, with a rounded rim; and a pale green bottle, mold-blown, the piriform body with an all-over wicker basket pattern, a branch of laurel leaves alternating with laurel berries around the middle of the "basket," a "rope" around the shoulder, the cylindrical neck with in-folded rim, on a flat base
2½ in. (6.4 cm) high for the first (2)

Lot Essay

The design of the bottle is based on the practice of wrapping actual glass transport vessels in wickerwork for protection. The leaves pointing to the right on one side and to the left on the other, along with the imitation basket work, strongly resemble the Workshop of the Floating Handles. For a similar example see no. 59, p. 154 in Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass, The First Through Sixth Centuries.

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