116. Roman unguentarium, 1st century AD
Glass
Height: 15.3cm
10838
£ 1,200.00
Phial blown in clear amber-orange glass, of graceful form, with tall neck and teardrop shaped body tapering to a peg base, the lip folded. Broken across the neck, iridescence in...
Phial blown in clear amber-orange glass, of graceful form, with tall neck and teardrop shaped body tapering to a peg base, the lip folded. Broken across the neck, iridescence in particular to the top half of the neck.
Provenance
Hekmat and Madeleine Nassif; exported under licence from Beirut, Lebanon, to Monaco in 1987Literature
Compare a somewhat more slender example in Newby and Schut The Fascination with Ancient Glass (Netherlands, 1999) pp. 64-65, no. 54.5
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