Roman spiny flask , Eastern Mediterranean, 5th-6th century AD
Glass
Height: 7.6cm
11882 IVP
£ 650
Free blown in clear glass, but with deposits and iridescence now causing it to appear opaque. Of conical form tapering to a short flared neck with flattened rim, the body decorated with scattered pinched projections, the base flattened and pushed in. The entire surface covered with a golden iridescence. Some pitting to the surface, some spines broken, the lip replaced.
Provenance
Hamoudi collectionBernd Gackstätter, Frankfurt, Germany
Döring collection, Munich, Germany; acquired from the above in 1996
Literature
Compare Susan B. Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale, 1980), p.127, no.341
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