98. Roman marbled flask, 1st-3rd century AD
Glass
Height: 11cm
11884 IVP
£ 2,500.00
Further images
Free-blown in translucent amber-coloured and opaque glass. The slender, piriform body has a small, flattened base, and rises to a tall cylindrical neck with an everted and inward- folded lip....
Free-blown in translucent amber-coloured
and opaque glass. The slender, piriform body
has a small, flattened base, and rises to a tall
cylindrical neck with an everted and inward-
folded lip. Some pitting and minor surface
accretion, small areas of iridescence. Intact.
Provenance
Sothebys London, 10th December 1984Axel Weber, Cologne, Germany
Döring Collection, Munich, Germany; purchased from the above in 1985
