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Lot 96*

A Roman pale green glass flask

1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman pale green glass flask
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The piriform body with six bands of wheel-cut decoration, the tall slender cylindrical neck with folded rim, slight indentation to the base, 17.8cm high

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Provenance:
with Sadi & Fayez Barakat & Sons, Jerusalem.
Private collection, Bern, acquired from the above 1960s-1970s.
Private collection, Basel, acquired 2010.

Similarly decorated balsamaria have been found at Pompeii and Herculaneum; see L. Scatozza-Höricht, L'Instrumentum Vitreum di Pompeii, Rome, 2012, p. 181, no. 10372, pl. LIII.

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