Pale blue Roman glass carafe with rounded body, the glass pinched out around the body to form eight vertical ribs with knobs. The flat base slightly incurved. The tall tubular neck fairly flaring to a plain rim.
Free-blown blue-green glass
H. 11.1 cm (4.4 in)
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Tall spherical jar with cylindrical neck and folded collar rim. Two bands of wheel-cut grooves encircling the body. The flat base slightly incurved.
Free-blown amber colored glass
H. 19.1 cm (7.5 in)
D. 15.7 cm (6.2 in)
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Roman beaker on a small base with flaring wall to a rounded rim. As usual with ancient glass, this item is thin-walled and light as a feather.
Glass
Syro-Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
H. 10.8 cm (4.25 in), D. 5.9 cm (2.3 in)
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Fine glass bottle with a globular body, elongated neck and folded rim.
Glass
Roman, 1st to 3rd century AD
H. 12.2 cm (4.8 in)
D. 10.6 cm (4.2 in)
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Fine glass bottle of faceted globular body and funnel shaped neck. Tooled ribs radiating on the shoulder and on the lower body to join a chain pattern around the belly.
The ribs were hand-tooled with pincers while the glass was still hot and in a workable state.
Pale green glass.
Roman, 2nd/3rd century AD.
H. 11.3 cm (4.4 in).
Intact, fine condition.
Swiss art market
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Roman glass flask of spherical body on a ring foot. The short neck with a wide flaring rim; a strap handle fold on top to form a thumb rest.
Free-blown pale green, almost white glass.
H. 11.4 cm (4.5 in), D. 8.5 cm (3.3 in).
Roman, 2nd/3rd century AD.
Intact, except for a small craze on the neck, just below the join to the handle. Some iridescence inside; sinter and plenty of root marks all over.
German art market.
