A ROMAN COBALT BLUE HEXAGONAL GLASS BOTTLE WITH DRINKING VESSELS

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN COBALT BLUE HEXAGONAL GLASS BOTTLE WITH DRINKING VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The body blown into a three-part mould with separate base plate, the six panels divided by vertical ribs, each panel with a different motif including a kantharos with high arching handles, a patella cup in birds-eye view, a tall oinochoe, a krater, a ladle, and a skyphos, arches on the shoulder, each filled with an ivy leaf, tongues around the lower body, concentric circles on the underside of the base, with tall cylindrical neck and everted inward-folded rim
3 ¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired prior to 2000.

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Lot Essay

For another similar cobalt blue vessel with this combination of decoration see Whitehouse, 2001, pp. 37-38, no. 507, formerly in the Winfield Smith collection (no 55.1.74.). According to Buechner (1957, no. 76), the occurrence of the ladle form (simpulum) on such bottles is rare.

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