219. Late Roman-early Byzantine bottle, c.6th-7th century AD
Glass
Height: 15.3cm
11458 IVP
£ 4,200
Free-blown from pale green semi-transparent glass. The body of globular form, a tall broad funnel neck tapering to the shoulder, the lip folded out, on a pushed-in base with conical...
Free-blown from pale green semi-transparent glass. The body of globular form, a tall broad funnel neck tapering to the shoulder, the lip folded out, on a pushed-in base with conical kick and hollow tubular foot ring. A thin trail of applied glass thread in six bands decorating the neck below the rim. A further six lines of spiral trail applied to the shoulder, below which are two pincered bands of decoration and then two rows of pinched decorations. Intact.
Provenance
Bank Collection, 1975Kölner Münzkabinett, Cologne, Germany, October 2012
Nico F. Bijnsdorp, the Netherlands; acquired from the above on the 14 May 2014, collection number NFB 299
Literature
For a variant from Egypt dated to 4th-5th century AD compare Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Ancient Glass from the Collection of Lord Michael Levy (London, 2021), no.148Publications
Kölner Münzkabinett, Cologne, Auktion 98, 22-23 October 2012, lot 111431
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