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CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
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ELEVEN ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Including two candlestick unguentaria; five bottles of varying shape; a flask; a bottle with a cylindrical body; a bottle with two applied trails around the neck, one tooled into a zigzag; a cup with four wheel-cut bands and slightly flaring mouth; all pale green to yellow in color, one with swirls of aubergine
Tallest: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high (11)
CIRCA 1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
Including two candlestick unguentaria; five bottles of varying shape; a flask; a bottle with a cylindrical body; a bottle with two applied trails around the neck, one tooled into a zigzag; a cup with four wheel-cut bands and slightly flaring mouth; all pale green to yellow in color, one with swirls of aubergine
Tallest: 6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) high (11)
Provenance
Edward J. Smith, Weehawken; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15 February 1962, lot 8 (for the bottle with aubergine swirls).
Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2004, lot 388.
Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman; Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 2004, lot 388.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.