18. Roman marbled bottle, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 9.1cm
11536 IVP
£ 12,000.00
Further images
Free-blown in thick cobalt-blue and opaque white marbled glass. The wide, piriform body has a short cylindrical neck, and out-turned, inward-folded and flattened lip. Intact.
Free-blown in thick cobalt-blue and opaque white marbled glass. The wide, piriform body has a short cylindrical neck, and out-turned, inward-folded and flattened lip. Intact.
Provenance
Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), Schweinfurt, Germany; acquired 1960s
Literature
For the form compare A. von Saldern, B. Nolte, P. La Baume and T.E. Haevernick, Gläser der Antike, Sammlung Erwin Oppenländer (Hamburg, 1974), no.354For the colour compare D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Vol.II (New York, 1997), no.768, p.206 illus.
