ANCIENT ROMAN GLASS FLASK
Ca. 100-300 AD.
A beautiful glass flask with a long body displaying vertical grooves, a short, flared neck and a wide everted rim. In antiquity, merchants and traders routinely packed, shipped, and sold all manner of foodstuffs and other goods across the Mediterranean in glass bottles and jars of all shapes and sizes, supplying Rome with a great variety of exotic materials from far-off parts of the empire. To find out more about glass in the Roman world, see Bayley, J., Freestone, I., & Jackson, C. (2015). Glass of the Roman World. Oxford And Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.
Size: L:67mm / W:30mm ; 11.4g
Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.
Estimate: GBP 75 - 150