Two Roman glass vessels
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
A green glass bottle with some purple streaks around the funnel neck, the rounded body decorated with fourteen short vertical pincered ribs, 6¼in (16cm) high; and a colourless glass flask, the narrow funnel-shaped neck with a band of fine trail decoration, the piriform body decorated with a pincered trail pattern of conjoint droplet motifs, set on an applied base ring, 6in (15.5cm) (2)
Eastern Mediterranean, circa 4th-5th Century A.D.
A green glass bottle with some purple streaks around the funnel neck, the rounded body decorated with fourteen short vertical pincered ribs, 6¼in (16cm) high; and a colourless glass flask, the narrow funnel-shaped neck with a band of fine trail decoration, the piriform body decorated with a pincered trail pattern of conjoint droplet motifs, set on an applied base ring, 6in (15.5cm) (2)
Sold for
£1,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Dr Carl Kempe Collection (1884-1967), sold Bonhams 29 April 2004, lots 149 and 151;
Category: Antiquities
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