Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 702, p. 170 in Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2.
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ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
A ROMAN GLASS POINTED UNGUENTARIUM
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GLASS POINTED UNGUENTARIUM
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color, free-blown, with a piriform body and a long cylindrical neck, the base a bulbous spike, the funnel mouth folded in, with an opaque white trail wound spirally along the lower neck and body and dropped onto the base spike
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
CIRCA SECOND HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color, free-blown, with a piriform body and a long cylindrical neck, the base a bulbous spike, the funnel mouth folded in, with an opaque white trail wound spirally along the lower neck and body and dropped onto the base spike
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Richard Reedy; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 13 December 1979, lot 148.
Brought to you by
Molly Morse Limmer
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