5th-6th century AD. A pale green pouch bottle with bulbous body and funicular neck, indented base; the body and neck with vertical ribbing. 70 grams, 11.5 cm (4 1/2"). From an important Dutch collection; acquired in the 1980s from Nicholas Wright of Kilburn, London, UK (Sir Michael Tippett's assistant); found in an Anglo-Saxon grave in Kent, UK, in the 1970s. Cf. Evison, V.I. A Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Glass in the British Museum, item 154, a pouch bottle from St. Peter's, Broadstairs, Kent.

Fine condition, base repaired.