Lot Essay
For a similar example in the Ernesto Wolf Collection see no. 4, p. 60 in Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE-700 CE.
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CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLED GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color with an applied opaque white trail wound spirally around the neck and body and tooled into a festoon pattern, marvered and inflated, the spherical body with a cylindrical neck and funnel-shaped mouth, on a flat base
3 9/16 in. (9 cm.) high
CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color with an applied opaque white trail wound spirally around the neck and body and tooled into a festoon pattern, marvered and inflated, the spherical body with a cylindrical neck and funnel-shaped mouth, on a flat base
3 9/16 in. (9 cm.) high
Provenance
French Private Collection, 1980s.