Lot Essay
For similar double head flask cf. Exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Lucerne, 1981, p. 82, no. 278 and for similar flasks with woven basket-work design p.78, nos 252-253.
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CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
TWO ROMAN OPAQUE WHITE GLASS FLASKS
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Each mold-blown, one a double-head flask, with chubby face one side and a thinner face the other, tall cylindrical neck and small everted rim; and one with woven basket-work pattern with a band of laurel around the middle of the body, short cylindrical neck and wide inward-folded everted rim
Tallest: 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Each mold-blown, one a double-head flask, with chubby face one side and a thinner face the other, tall cylindrical neck and small everted rim; and one with woven basket-work pattern with a band of laurel around the middle of the body, short cylindrical neck and wide inward-folded everted rim
Tallest: 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Acquired between 1955-1998.
Sale room notice
Please note that the basket-work flask illustrated on the left of the picture is withdrawn. The lot is composed by one item only and the revised estimate should read 500-800 pounds.
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