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A Roman blue glass pointed unguentarium with opaque white trail image 1
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The Jack Alfred Goldhill Collection of Ancient Glass (Lots 137-156)
Lot 140

A Roman blue glass pointed unguentarium with opaque white trail

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A Roman blue glass pointed unguentarium with opaque white trail

Circa 50-100 A.D.
13cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Sheppard & Cooper Ltd, London.
Jack Alfred Goldhill collection, UK, acquired from the above 28 March 1978; and thence by descent to the present owner.

For the type, see D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, vol. 2, Corning, 2001, p. 170, no. 702.

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