Roman glass bottle

Eastern Mediterranean or Italy
First half of I century A. D.

Globular body with slightly flattened base, slightly concave bottom; tubular neck with tooled constriction at bottom; rim folded out and in, beveled on top. Assembled from lengths of cane and blown. Marbled mosaic pattern formed from large, irregularly shaped sections of a single cane in a golden- brown ground with opaque white, different shades of opaque blue and yellow parallel lines. Several small pieces are mended and some stabilized cracks, but no restoration or foreign material.
Height 4.5″(11.4 cm).

Christie’s Antiquities of New York, 12 June 2002, lot 181.
Published in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unguentarium
For similar published archaeological examples see:
-Hayes J. W. Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, 1975, cat. 81;
-Kunina N. Ancient Glass in the Hermitage Collection. ARS Publishers, LTD, St. Petersburg, 1997, cat.101;
-Grose D.F. The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass. Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1989, cat. 614;
-Matheson S. B. Ancient Glass in the Yale University Art Gallery. Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, cat.68;