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ANCIENT GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF GEOFFREY SOWASH
TWO ROMAN GLASS VESSELS
CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Details
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)
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.
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).
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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