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A Roman cobalt blue mould-blown glass grape bottle image 1
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A Roman cobalt blue mould-blown glass grape bottle

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6 July 2023, 11:00 BST
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A Roman cobalt blue mould-blown glass grape bottle
Circa late 1st Century A.D.
7.5cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Hans Benzian collection, Switzerland.
The Benzian Collection of Ancient and Islamic Glass; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 65.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14-15 May 2002, lot 505.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 118), acquired from the above sale.

Published:
M. Kunz, ed., 3000 Jahre Glaskunst: von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1981, no. 298.

Exhibited:
Kunstmuseum Luzern, "Dreitausend Jahre Glaskunst", 19 July-13 September 1981.

Blown into a two-part mould to resemble a three-lobed bunch of small grapes, this flask belongs to one of the earliest groups produced, possibly along the Syro-Palestinian coast, with examples found in Greece and Italy by the third quarter of the 1st Century A.D. (M. Stern, Roman Mold-Blown Glass. The First Through Sixth Centuries, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1995, p. 180, nos 109-10).

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