Lot Essay
For an almost identical example see no. 217 in Kunina, Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection.
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PROPERTY OF THE WUNSCH FOUNDATION
A ROMAN GLASS BOTTLE
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GLASS BOTTLE
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Pale blue-green in color, free blown, the spherical body on a slightly kicked base, with a long tapering cylindrical neck, the collar rim folded down and up, the body with multiple wheel-cut intersecting circles, and four shallow horizontal wheel-cut grooves along the neck
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Pale blue-green in color, free blown, the spherical body on a slightly kicked base, with a long tapering cylindrical neck, the collar rim folded down and up, the body with multiple wheel-cut intersecting circles, and four shallow horizontal wheel-cut grooves along the neck
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Art Market, Germany.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 April 1998, lot 62.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 April 1998, lot 62.
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