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A Roman purple glass pomegranate-shaped sprinkler bottle image 1
A Roman purple glass pomegranate-shaped sprinkler bottle image 2
A Roman purple glass pomegranate-shaped sprinkler bottle image 3
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A Roman purple glass pomegranate-shaped sprinkler bottle

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7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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A Roman purple glass pomegranate-shaped sprinkler bottle
Circa 4th Century A.D.
With wide flaring collared rim, restricted at the neck, with applied pale green thick trail on the underside of the mouth, the spherical body with five pinched ribs and further pinched nodules, set on a base ring of eight pinched toes, 13.3cm high

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Provenance:
Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928) collection.
The Thomas Barlow Walker Collection. Sold for the Benefit of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 26th-28th September 1972, lot 80.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12th-13th December 1991, lot 10.
Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale.

Cf. Two examples in dark purple glass formerly in the Ernesto Wolf Collection (E. Marianne Stern, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass, 10 BCE - 700 CE, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001, pp. 250-1, nos 136-7). This vessel is the more unusual for having pulled points between the wings and its purple colour further alludes to its pomegranate style foot.

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