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Lot 123*

A Roman cobalt blue glass perfume bottle on three feet

6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £896 inc. premium

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A Roman cobalt blue glass perfume bottle on three feet
Circa early 1st Century A.D.
9.1cm high

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Provenance:
with Sasson Ancient Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 261), acquired from the above on the 16 January 2011.

Cf. a similar flask in marbled glass formerly in the Oppenlaender collection and now at the Getty Museum, acc. no. 2003.285, and a green glass unguentarium in Princeton with similar tripod feet (A. Antonaras, Fire and Sand. Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2012, p. 213, no. 320).

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