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Lot 146

A Roman pale green glass grape flask

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Roman pale green glass grape flask
Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.
With cylindrical neck and folded rim, a horizontal flange at the shoulder, the ovoid body mould-blown with stylised grape pattern and a single ivy leaf at the center of each side at the top, on a slightly indented base, 13.5cm high

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Provenance:
with Hadji Baba Ancient Art, London, 1995 (M. Newby, The Beauty of Ancient Glass, p. 10, no. 40).

A similar grape flask is at the Corning Museum of Glass, acc. no. 57.1.8.

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