A Greek core-formed glass unguentarium
Circa 3rd Century B.C.
9.7cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
The Alfred Wolkenberg (d. 1990) collection, New York.
The Alfred Wolkenberg Collection of Ancient Glass; Christie's, London, 9 July 1991, lot 182.
The Nimbus Collection of Ancient Glass The Property of a Private Collector; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1997, lot 181.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 052), acquired from the above sale.

Published:
J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p. 17.

For similar unguentaria see The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, obj. no. 1923.333 and E.M. Stern, Early Glass of the Ancient World in the Ernesto Wolf Collection, Ostfildern, 1994, p. 230-231, no. 56.
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The unguentarium is broken and mended around the lower body above the tooled base. There is a small repaired chip to the underside of the lip, a further small chip to the yellow trail around the rim.

With overall surface ware including pitting, chipping and scratching with burst surface bubbles a large bubble is visible in the trailing near the lower body repair.

Accompanied by a perspex and metal stand, a Bijnsdorp collection sticker affixed to the underside numbered '052'.