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

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A ROMAN BLUE GLASS BOTTLE
CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Opaque blue in colour, 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 everted rim decorated with two bands
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Neuchatel, Switzerland, circa 1970s-1999.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example cf., exhibition catalogue, 3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981, p. 61, no. 144, pl. F9. 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, 1980, vol. 22.

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