Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

A Roman streaky aubergine glass multi-sided bottle with pale green and blue handles image 1
A Roman streaky aubergine glass multi-sided bottle with pale green and blue handles image 2
Lot 126*

A Roman streaky aubergine glass multi-sided bottle with pale green and blue handles

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

Sold for £2,304 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Antiquities specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A Roman streaky aubergine glass multi-sided bottle with pale green and blue handles
Circa late 1st-early 2nd Century A.D.
6.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 2001, lot 155.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 105), acquired from the above sale.

For a similar streaked manganese multi-sided bottle cf. E.M. Stern, The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, Toledo, 1995, p.150, no. 52. and also S. Matheson Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery Yale, 1980, p.51, no. 130.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone with dedication inscription of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin

A small Mesopotamian clay cuneiform foundation cone inscribed for King Sin-Kashid of Uruk

A Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Hittite bronze helmet with pelta-shaped cheek-pieces

An Attic pottery tankard with geometric decoration

A Greek pottery alabastron in the form of a greaved leg

A Greek terracotta female figure with a bird perched on her shoulder