TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Including a hexagonal faceted bottle from the Workshop of the Floating Handles, light green in color, mold-blown, with tapering walls and carinated shoulders, the short neck free-blown, the rim folded out then in, on a flat base, the twin handles joined to the rim and floating above the shoulders; and a Syro-Palestinian bottle, pale green in color with a swirl of pale aubergine, the bulbous mold-blown body with a central band of lozenges between bands of tongues, the cylindrical neck free blown, the rim folded out then in, on a flat disk base, with twin light green handles
Faceted bottle: 3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

European Private Collection, acquired in 1987.

Lot Essay

For the Workshop of the Floating Handles, see p. 86ff. in Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass.

For a similar bulbous bottle see nos. 53-54 in Stern, op. cit.

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