Five Roman glass flasks 5
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Five Roman glass flasks
1st-5th Century A.D.
Including a small blue glass bottle with pear-shaped body, 7cm high; a slender tear bottle, 8.7cm high; a green glass bottle, the rim folded outwards and down, high; a pale blue glass juglet, the trailed handle pincered with ribbon decoration, with thumb spur, 8.5cm high, and a juglet with spiral blue trail around the upper neck, part of the handle missing, with dimple moulded body, 9cm high, label on the underside of the base 'Gaze Cooper Collection No.G.14 (5)
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Provenance:
Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021), formed from the 1970s onwards.
The blue bottle: acquired from Charles Ede Ltd, London, 6 May 1980.
The juglet with blue trail: acquired from John Brooks, Leicestershire, 12 August 1974, formerly Gaze Cooper Collection.
Published:
Charles Ede Ltd, Roman Glass, 1980, no.6.
The juglet with elaborate pincered handle trail is similar to three examples from Kerch dating from the second half of the 1st Century AD in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (Nina Kunina; Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg 1997, pp.41, 176, 300, 302-3, nos.242-4).
1st-5th Century A.D.
Including a small blue glass bottle with pear-shaped body, 7cm high; a slender tear bottle, 8.7cm high; a green glass bottle, the rim folded outwards and down, high; a pale blue glass juglet, the trailed handle pincered with ribbon decoration, with thumb spur, 8.5cm high, and a juglet with spiral blue trail around the upper neck, part of the handle missing, with dimple moulded body, 9cm high, label on the underside of the base 'Gaze Cooper Collection No.G.14 (5)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Property of a private collector, Edinburgh (1938-2021), formed from the 1970s onwards.
The blue bottle: acquired from Charles Ede Ltd, London, 6 May 1980.
The juglet with blue trail: acquired from John Brooks, Leicestershire, 12 August 1974, formerly Gaze Cooper Collection.
Published:
Charles Ede Ltd, Roman Glass, 1980, no.6.
The juglet with elaborate pincered handle trail is similar to three examples from Kerch dating from the second half of the 1st Century AD in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (Nina Kunina; Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg 1997, pp.41, 176, 300, 302-3, nos.242-4).
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Five Roman glass flasks 5
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