A ROMAN GLASS BOTTLE

CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Opaque red in color, cast, lathe-cut and polished, the piriform body with two raised horizontal bands low on the shoulders, the base flattened, with a long slightly tapering cylindrical neck, the outsplayed mouth with a two-layered disk rim
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. K. Hartmann, Geneva, circa 1920; thence by descent to W. Hartmann, Geneva.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example see no. 144, p. 61, pl. F9 in Kunz and Rütti, 3000 Jahr Glaskunst. For another in opaque white see no. 2, p. 88 in "Recent Important Acquisitions Made by Public and Private Collections in the United States and Abroad," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22.

The green patina on the base and in the interior of this bottle is caused by copper in the glass which formed a metallic surface.

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