Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
Touch the ancient world – own a piece of history – but remember it belongs to all humanity
$1,000.00
Colorless glass, transparent. Tubular, swelling out at bottom to form a large domed body, with wide flat base; cylindrical neck, spreading rim folded on top and beveled along inner edge. Slight tooling-mark at junction of neck and body. Variegated iridescence. Intact.
H. 7.6″ (19.3 cm).
Parallels: Hayes J. W. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, 1975, cat. 254, 490; Harden type i; Vessberg O. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition IV Part 3, The Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus. Lund, 1956, fig. 49.11; Harden D.B. The Glass, RDAC 1940-48, fig.24 m, g.