Francesca Hickin
Head of Department
Lot 9*
A Roman pale blue-green glass feeder flask
6 July 2021, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £892.50 inc. premium
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Anna Marston
Associate Specialist
A Roman pale blue-green glass feeder flask
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
With folded rim, cylindrical neck and bird-shaped body drawn to a perforated point, with a pinched crest along the top of the body, 8cm high
Circa 2nd-3rd Century A.D.
With folded rim, cylindrical neck and bird-shaped body drawn to a perforated point, with a pinched crest along the top of the body, 8cm high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 11 June 1997, lot 212.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above sale.
Although often described as feeder flasks, these vessels are likely to have been used as lamp-fillers. There is another example of a flask of similar proportions in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, acc. no.74.51.80. This example is more unusual due to the pinched crest on the back of the body.