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Lot 38

A Roman green glass sprinkler flask

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £637.50 inc. premium

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A Roman green glass sprinkler flask
Circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.
The funnel mouth with tooled ridge, constricted at the base of the neck, the globular body with two rows of pincered ribs, 12.4cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Desmond Morris collection, Oxford, acquired in the 1970s.

For similar, see a sprinkler in the Corning Museum of Glass, New York, acc. no. 52.1.64.

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