TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS

CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Both pale green in color, free-blown, with indented sides, one a bottle with a kicked base, the long cylindrical neck constricted at its lower end, the rim cracked off; and a beaker, tapering toward the slightly flaring foot, the outsplayed rim cracked off; together with a Roman blue-green glass unguentarium
Bottle: 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high; Beaker:3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
Bottle and Beaker: Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne.
Ancient Glass, Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection; Christie's, London, 5-6 March 1985, lots 81 (bottle) and 82 (beaker).
Unguentarium: Acquired in Paris, circa 1985.
Literature
F. Fremersdorf, Das naturfarbene sogenannte blaugrüne Glas in Köln, Cologne, 1958, pls. 22-23 (bottle).
M. Kunz and B. Rütti, 3,000 Jahre Glaskunst, der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Lucerne, 1981, nos. 405 (beaker) and 408 (bottle).

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