84. Roman marbled unguentarium, Eastern Mediterranean, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 10.3cm
11524 IVP
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Free-blown in thick, translucent purple and opaque white marbled glass. The marbling is particularly beautiful and refined, a constriction at the top of the body and around the base of...
Free-blown in thick, translucent purple and
opaque white marbled glass. The marbling is
particularly beautiful and refined, a constriction
at the top of the body and around the base of
the cylindrical beck has created a bulge at the
shoulder, the lip out-turned and inward-folded.
Label on base reads ‘ANT 1730’. Intact.
Provenance
Private collection, USA; acquired 1980s
Literature
For a smaller version, without the white marble, compare an example in the Ancient Glass Blog of The Allaire Collection, posted on 30th March 2012