CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
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FOUR ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
A mould-blown pale green sprinkler flask with purplish silver iridescence; a translucent green double balsamarium with applied twin handles, mounted; a pale aubergine glass flask, the piriform body with everted rim and five pinched fins on five vestigial feet; and a pale amber sprinkler flask, the spherical body with faint diagonal ribbing on the shoulder
14.2 cm. high max. (4)
CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
A mould-blown pale green sprinkler flask with purplish silver iridescence; a translucent green double balsamarium with applied twin handles, mounted; a pale aubergine glass flask, the piriform body with everted rim and five pinched fins on five vestigial feet; and a pale amber sprinkler flask, the spherical body with faint diagonal ribbing on the shoulder
14.2 cm. high max. (4)
Provenance
Acquired between the 1960s and the 1990s. Old collection labels reading: Prive collectie C. A. Hessing, 1 (item one) and 26 (item three).
Exhibited
(2): Rotterdam, Historisch Museum, Bezeten Bezit, Keuzetentoonstelling uit de verzameling van Mevrouw W.G. Elias-Vaes te Rotterdam, exhibition catalogue, 18 April - 1 August 1970, no. 788.
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