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Lot 139*

Four Roman glass vessels
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7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Four Roman glass vessels
Late Roman-Early Byzantine, circa 1st-6th Century A.D.
Comprising a pilgrim flask, the cylindrical neck with cut-off rim, 13.5cm high; a blue glass jar, 5.8cm high; an unguentarium, 13.8cm high; and a juglet with trefoil lip, 10.5cm high (4)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Pilgrim flask: with Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd, New York.
Blue jar: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 10 March 1992.
Unguentarium: with Sheppard and Cooper Ltd, London, 6 October 1990.
Juglet: with Barakat Galleries, Beverly Hills (A Catalogue of the Collection, vol. 1, 1985, G60).
Private collection, USA.

There is a similar lentoid flask in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 17.194.93.

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