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THE PROPERTY OF A CONNECTICUT PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A ROMAN MARBLED GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN MARBLED GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color with an applied opaque white trail wound spirally around the body and neck, marvered and tooled into a festoon pattern, then inflated, the spherical body with a cylindrical neck and funnel-shaped mouth, on a flat base
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Cobalt blue in color with an applied opaque white trail wound spirally around the body and neck, marvered and tooled into a festoon pattern, then inflated, the spherical body with a cylindrical neck and funnel-shaped mouth, on a flat base
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
New York Private Collection (acquired in the 1990s); Sotheby's, New York, 6 December 2006, lot 4.