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Two Roman glass janiform head flasks 2 image 1
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The Jack Alfred Goldhill Collection of Ancient Glass (Lots 137-156)
Lot 144

Two Roman glass janiform head flasks
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The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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Two Roman glass janiform head flasks

Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
one of amber glass, the other with a handle and of light yellow-green glass, 8cm and 9cm high (2)

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Provenance:
The amber flask excavated at Mount Carmel in November 1888 (as inked on the underside, 'Lawrence collection').
Presumably Edwin Henry Lawrence F.S.A (1819-1891) collection, excavated in Cyprus by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904) or his younger brother, Major Alexander Palma di Cesnola (1839-1914).
Both: Stella Pitt-Rivers collection, Dorset.
The Property of Mrs. Stella Pitt-Rivers from the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Dorset, formerly in the Lawrence collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1978, lot 52.
Jack Alfred Goldhill collection, UK, acquired from the above sale; and thence by descent to the present owner.

For the type, see A. Antonaras, Fire and Sand, Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2012, p. 82, nos 89-90.

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