44. Roman unguentarium, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 8.8cm
10926 IVP
£ 650.00
Free-blown in translucent, light cobalt-blue glass. The piriform body, has a slight pinch at the conjunction with the tall cylindrical neck, the lip out-turned and inward-folded, a pontil mark on...
Free-blown in translucent, light cobalt-blue
glass. The piriform body, has a slight pinch
at the conjunction with the tall cylindrical
neck, the lip out-turned and inward-folded,
a pontil mark on the underside of the
slightly flattened base. Intact, the surface
with some slight iridescence.
Provenance
J. Mazard, France, the Bahamas and USA; acquired 1980sLiterature
Compare A. Antonaras, Fire and Sand; Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, 2012), p.220-221, nos.342-345
