A ROMAN HEAVY GREEN GLASS FLASK
A ROMAN GREEN GLASS FLASK

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.

Details
A ROMAN GREEN GLASS FLASK
CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Dark olive green in colour, the spherical body decorated with multiple wheel-cut grooves, the short cylindrical neck with collared rim
11½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York,23 December 1982, lot 27.

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Lot Essay

For a similar flask with wheel-cut grooves cf. E. M. Stern and B. Schlick-Nolte, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C.- A.D. 50, the Ernesto Wolf Collection, Stuttgart, 1994, pp. 101-102, no. 37.

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