100. Roman flask with spiked projections, Eastern Mediterranean, 5th-6th century AD
Glass
Height: 6.2cm
11885 IVP
£ 1,600.00
Free-blown in translucent blue-green glass, the surface covered in pearl-like iridescence. The piriform body with a pushed-in base has scattered pinched projections over the surface, the short conical neck flaring...
Free-blown in translucent blue-green glass,
the surface covered in pearl-like iridescence.
The piriform body with a pushed-in base has
scattered pinched projections over the surface,
the short conical neck flaring upwards from a
slight constriction, the uneven lip cracked-off.
Intact, one spine broken.
Provenance
Bernd Gackstätter, Frankfurt, GermanyDöring collection, Munich, Germany; purchased from the above in 2004
