An authentic and ancient fine handled ROMAN Glass Bottle, excavated in Syria, ca. 3rd-5th Century A.D. Surface etched, muddy, iron stained with an open pontil base. Most likely used for Perfume or Precious Oils. Condition: intact, no damage. Size: 3.75" H. ( ca. 9.5 cm.) Provenance: From an antiquity dealer's estate. A delicate and very fine collector's piece.
A massive high quality unguentaria made of greenish glass. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.
The bottle of impressive height and very solidly constructed, sound glass.
Size: c. 15 cm. tall and 7,7 cm. in diameter of the base.
Condition: Extremely fine, unusually solid and sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.
Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!
Small glass phial, with a bulbous body resting on a circular foot and surmounted by a cylindrical long neck. Slight irisations and soil encrustations. Roman period, ca. 3rd century. Height: 5.5 cm. Very good condition.
GLASS PERFUME FLASK
ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 2nd Cent. AD
Yellowish color, roundel flat body with a little cylindrical shape neck.
Dimensions:
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 3.5 cm
Condition: Very good condition.
Found in Bethlehem south of Jerusalem, Holy Land
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940687
A scarce and beautiful Roman glass bottle. Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.
The bottle with cylindrical ribbed corpus and wide mouth.
Size: c. 110 mm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine, sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.
Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!
A very rare and attractive glass flask or vase, decorated with sea animals, Roman Empire, 1st.-3rd. century AD.
The flask with fine decorative impressions of sea animals - an octopus and a wonderfully detailed firsh on the surface. The neck is straight and undecorated and with a flat ring as a lip atop. Light blue-green glass.
Size: 11,2 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice for type - a hairline repair where the neck meets the body.
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Interesting lot of quite scarce glass amulets or tesseras in fine conditions, Early Roman Imperial, Roman Egypt, c. 1st.-2nd. century AD.
The motifs includes Hercules, Mercury and a fine Imperial couple in the style of the time of Nero...
Pear-shaped flask decorated with concentric circles and cross-hatched diamonds on the body.
The tubular neck with folded rim was applied separately. Slightly pushed-in base with traces of a pontil mark.
Glass of dull amber in color with patches of iridescence.
Glass
Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 3rd-4th century AD
H. 13 cm (5.1 in)
Intact...
Scarce and attractive ancient glass vase with funnel mouth, Roman 1st.-3rd. century AD.
The flask in blue-green glass with nice silverish patination.
Height: Near 10 cm.
Condition: Superb. Strong with good walls.
Provenance: Old Private Collection and aquired before 1990 in the German antiques market.
This is a 2nd Century Roman Glass, hand blown 2nd century AD. It is thick and heavy, unflawed, no chips or cracks, no hairlines,it has impressed squares
on the body for about two third of the way down. Unguentaria used to hold poisonous, caustic oils or ointments and
were never smooth sided, to prevent the Roman from grabbing the dangerous oil by mistake. It is certainly one of the earliest poison bottles ever made.
Measurements: 4 inches tall and 2 1/4 wide at its widest point...
Translucent, pale green glass with seven vertical ribs along the piriform body.
Small constriction at the join to the cylindrical neck. The flared mouth with inward folded rim...
Attractive and rare type of biconical vessel / vase with rim slightly outward, Roman 1st.-3rd cent. AD.
The vase with beautiful irridescence!
Size: 12,2 cm.
Condition: Superb. Perfectly preserved.
Provenance: Old family Collection, 1900-1970.
A fine Roman blown glass bottle in a deep amethyst color. Most likely a medicinal flask or unguent vial. It is evenly translucent with very little earthen deposits and encrustation. Quite rare and beautifully well preserved, it dates circa 1st-3rd century A.D. Measurements 4.75" x 3".
A massive high quality unguentaria bottle made of greenish glass. Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.
The bottle of impressive height and very solidly constructed, sound glass.
Size: c. 15,4 cm. tall.
Condition: Extremely fine, unusually solid and sound green glass vessel with beautiful mild irridescence.
Provenance: Estate of Hartmut Geerken, Germany, aquired 1961-1964!
GLASS FLASK
ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 2nd Cent. AD
This lovely perfume vessel with beautiful patina has survived the centuries with its beauty intact.
The flattened body rising to a firm and graceful cylindrical neck with a rim folded outwards.
One of the earliest types of free blown-glass vessels in an elongated bottle with a short body and a long neck. The content of such bottles could be poured out slowly, in tiny drops, and the small mouth was easily stoppered...
GLASS FLASK
ROMAN PERIOD, 1st - 2nd Cent. AD
Nicely made with a graceful pear-shaped body, long cylindrical neck with a rim folded outwards.
Dimensions:
Height: 16.5 cm
Diameter: 9 cm
Condition: Very good condition
Found in Jerusalem, Israel
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940698
A very large unguentarium made of slightly green clear glass Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 2nd - 3rd century AD.
The bottle of impressive height and with broad base and tappering neck, sound glass.
Size: c. 17,5 cm. tall and 8,7 cm. in diameter at the base!
Condition: Extremely fine, sound almost clear glass vessel with beautiful silverish and rainbow irridescence and deposits inside.
Provenance: Formerly in the property of Eberhard Hanfstaengl (1886-1973)
A large 4 sided jar in sea-green glass, having a wide ridged strap handle and folded lip. The base is decorated with a segmented circle in the center of which is another circle. Smaller circles are at each corner of the base. This is NOT a reproduction, but an original period piece.
The jar is in excellent condition, with no cracks, chips, or repairs. It is 9 1/2" tall, and 3 1/4" on each side of the square base.
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