CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Roman Empire; Western Provinces.
DATE: 1st Century CE
DIMENSIONS: 8 cm (3.15 in.) tall

DESCRIPTION: Intact. A Roman bottle of transparent very pale green glass, with a flat base, globular body and short cylindrical neck and splayed rim that has been poorly tooled (one side is drooping). Free blown and tooled, with some areas of very thin encrustation inside and out.

PROVENANCE: Acquired at auction, Bonhams antiquities auction, Sale 16777, London, 29 April, 2009, part of Lot # 302. formerly in a Welsh private collection formed between the 1970s and 2008.

PUBLISHED: Bonhams, London, ‘Antiquities”, 29 April, 2009, Lot #302, listed and illustrated on Page 174.

COMPARISONS: David Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Volume One, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1997, #s 190 & 191 for related examples.