Lot Essay
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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK FAMILY COLLECTION
SIX ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-5TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
SIX ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-5TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a pale yellow ribbed bottle, the cylindrical body mold-blown then further inflated and twisted, tapering to the narrow neck; a pale blue-green aryballos, the free-blown spherical body with thick walls and a rounded bottom; two pale green unguentaria, free-blown, the tubular bodies pinched to create two compartments; a pale green amphora with an ovoid body; and a pale green sprinkler flask, the globular body on a concave base, the twin handles with three pinched protuberances
Tallest: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high (6)
CIRCA 1ST-5TH CENTURY A.D.
Including a pale yellow ribbed bottle, the cylindrical body mold-blown then further inflated and twisted, tapering to the narrow neck; a pale blue-green aryballos, the free-blown spherical body with thick walls and a rounded bottom; two pale green unguentaria, free-blown, the tubular bodies pinched to create two compartments; a pale green amphora with an ovoid body; and a pale green sprinkler flask, the globular body on a concave base, the twin handles with three pinched protuberances
Tallest: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high (6)
Provenance
Acquired in Israel in the 1960s-1970s (the unguentaria with Joseph Stieglitz, Tel Aviv, 1968).