60. Roman flask with spherical body and trailing, 4th century AD
Glass
Height: 17cm
11307
Further images
Free-blown in transparent, colourless glass with applied cobalt-blue decoration. The spherical body has a tall, cylindrical neck and a wide funnel mouth which is decorated with fine, cobalt-blue applied spiral...
Free-blown in transparent, colourless glass with
applied cobalt-blue decoration. The spherical
body has a tall, cylindrical neck and a wide
funnel mouth which is decorated with fine,
cobalt-blue applied spiral trailing, the flask set
on a tubular foot with pushed up base. Intact.
Provenance
R.J.H. Ramselaar, Blaricum, the Netherlands
Mrs Elias-Vaes, the Netherlands; acquired
prior to 1970
Her sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, 27th, 28th and 29th April 2010
Sheikh Saud Al-Thani (1966-2014), London, UK and Paris, France
Exhibitions
Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, ‘Bezeten Bezit, Keuzetentoonstelling uit de verzameling van Mevrouw W.G. Elias-Vaes te Rotterdam’, 18th April-1st August 1970, no.790Literature
For a less elegant example compare Susan H. Auth, Ancient Glass at the Newark Museum (Newark, 1976), no.157Publications
Historisch Museum, Bezeten Bezit, Keuzetentoonstelling uit de verzameling van Mevrouw W.G. Elias-Vaes te Rotterdam, exhibition catalogue (Rotterdam, 1970), no.790Christie's, Amsterdam,Twenty Rooms: The Private Collection of the late Mrs Elias-Vaes; 27th, 28th and 29th April 2010, lot 77
