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Lot 21*

Two Roman green glass flasks
2

6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £1,402.50 inc. premium

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Two Roman green glass flasks
Circa 2nd-4th Century A.D.
Comprising a glass conical flask, with rounded shoulders and funnel mouth, 18.5cm high; and a glass flattened spherical flask, with folded rounded rim, the short cylindrical neck slightly constricted where it joins the body, 11.5cm high (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Conical flask: with Fortuna Fine Arts Ltd, New York, 4 September 1991.
Flattened spherical flask: with Antiquarium Ltd, New York, 6 December 1990.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above.

For a flask of similar conical form in the Louvre see V. Arveiller-Dulong & M.-D. Nenna, Les Verres Antiques du Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005, p. 416, fig. 1151.

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