Details
A ROMAN GREEN GLASS SNAKE-THREAD SPRINKLER FLASK
3RD CENTURY A.D.
The piriform body applied with undulating tooled snake-like trails, the cylindrical neck restricted at the base, with wide everted rim and inward folded lip, remains of applied spiral trail below rim, on ring foot
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection: sold Christie's London, 5-6 March 1985, lot 74.
Exhibited
Helhaus Zürich, Glas aus 4 Jahrtausenden, Zurich, July 1956.
3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum Luzern, July-September 1981.
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