LARGE COLLECTION OF TEN ROMAN GLASS UNGUENTARIA

Ca. AD 1 - 300. A collection of ten free-blown glass unguentaria and small bottles. The upper register includes a tall pale-blue vessel with a drop-shaped body and exceptionally elongated neck; a blue-green flask with a bulbous body, applied handle, and spreading foot; and a colourless piriform unguentarium. The lower register comprises two fusiform vessels in pale and amber glass, two miniature cylindrical containers, a dark-purple globular bottle, a large blue-green piriform unguentarium, and a tall amber tubular phial. The surfaces retain extensive earthen accretions, weathering, and iridescent patination. Size: 35-125mm x 15-35mm; Weight: 185g Provenance: From a private London collection; earlier held in an old family collection formed over the period 1960s–2000.

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