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Lot 151*

A Roman green glass janiform head flask

7 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Roman green glass janiform head flask
Circa 3rd Century A.D.
The body blown into a two-part mould, with two similar cherubic faces with knobby-curly hair, on a flattened ovoid base with a cylindrical neck and flaring folded rim, 7.8cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Antiquarium Ltd, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above 13 October 1993.

For a discussion on the different types of double headed jars see E. Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, the First through Sixth Centuries, Toledo, 1995, pp. 201-215. Stern notes that double-headed jars featuring child-like faces such as this example were popular in the Eastern Mediterranean (p. 203).

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