A ROMAN GREEN GLASS DOLPHIN OR FISH FLASK

3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS DOLPHIN OR FISH FLASK
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
The body in the form of an open-mouthed dolphin or fish, with tail curved upwards over the body, with aubergine glass applied for the eyes, dorsal and frontal fins, aubergine trail around mouth, on similar applied pad base
3 in. (7.7 cm.) long

Lot Essay

Cf. A. Dolez, Glass Animals, New York, 1988, p. 31 for a similar vessel with pointed snout in the Toledo Museum of Art; and S. B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale, 1980, pp. 86-87, nos. 239-240 for two fragmentary fish vessels.

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