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PROPERTY FROM A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A LATE ROMAN GLASS FLASK
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Details
A LATE ROMAN GLASS FLASK
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Pale yellow-green in color, free blown, the globular body with pinched vertical ribs, with a tall cylindrical neck and a funnel mouth, on an applied blue-green ring foot, an applied blue-green ring on the neck, the twin blue-green handles pulled up from the shoulders and joined to the neck below the ring
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
Pale yellow-green in color, free blown, the globular body with pinched vertical ribs, with a tall cylindrical neck and a funnel mouth, on an applied blue-green ring foot, an applied blue-green ring on the neck, the twin blue-green handles pulled up from the shoulders and joined to the neck below the ring
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Giorgio Sangiorgi (d.1965), Rome.
Ancient Glass formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection, Christie's, New York, 3 June 1999, lot 187.
Ancient Glass formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection, Christie's, New York, 3 June 1999, lot 187.
Literature
G. Sangiorgi, Collezione di Vetri Antichi dalle Origini al V Sec. D.C., Milan, 1914, no. 56.
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