A Roman translucent greyish-blue and opaque white marbled flask

1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A Roman translucent greyish-blue and opaque white marbled flask
1st Century A.D.
With opaque white marbling, the swollen body with pointed base and tall tapering cylindrical neck and everted rim
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. S. H. Auth, Ancient Glass, op. cit., p. 59, no. 54 for another example of this greyish-blue glass; and S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, 1980, pp. 24-25, no. 65 for a similar-shaped perfume flask.

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