53. Roman ribbed bottle, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 6.7cm
11495 IVP
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Free-blown in translucent cobalt-blue glass. The near spherical body with a series of pinched vertical ribs, a cylindrical neck and out-turned, inward-folded lip, with a thickened, raised circular base. Intact,...
Free-blown in translucent cobalt-blue glass.
The near spherical body with a series of
pinched vertical ribs, a cylindrical neck and
out-turned, inward-folded lip, with a thickened,
raised circular base. Intact, the interior with
pearlescence and the exterior with areas of
attractive iridescence.
Provenance
Jack (1930-1996) and Jane (1936-2021) Weprin, New York, USA; acquired by 1995, thence by descent
Literature
For the form compare Susan Matheson, Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery (Yale, 1980), no.73