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Lot 145*

A Roman pale blue-green glass pilgrim flask and a Roman green glass amphoriskos
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7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman pale blue-green glass pilgrim flask and a Roman green glass amphoriskos
Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.
The flask with circular flattened body blown into a mould with faint diagonal ribs, with long tapering neck and flaring rim, an applied trail wrapping around the rim to the top of the applied handles, 14.5cm high; the amphoriskos with spiral trail decoration around the funnel mouth and twin trail handles, the elongated piriform body with fluted vertical indentations, 17.5cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Flask: Property from the Collection of Gerd Lester; Sotheby's, New York, 25 June 1992, lot 390 (part).
Amphoriskos: with Barakat Galleries, Beverly Hills, 1980s.
Private collection, USA.

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