Seven Glass Vessels and a Glass Weight, circa 1st/4th Century A.D.

comprising a large bottle with broad rounded body and tall flaring neck with flange beneath the rim, a vase with hollow pedestal foot, globular body with flange on the shoulder, cylindrical neck, and flaring rim with lip possibly recut in antiquity, a large bowl with splayed foot folded out and flaring sides with everted rounded rim, a bottle with splayed tooled foot, broad rounded body encircled by bands of fine wheel-cut grooves, cylindrical neck, and flaring mouth with rim folded in, a beaker with solid foot and slightly flaring cylindrical body encircled by a thread, a fragmentary globular jar with indented sides and flaring mouth with folded flange beneath the rim, a beaker with splayed folded foot and flaring sides with everted rim, and a biconical weight.

Sotheby's, New York, May 22nd, 1981, no. 194, illus., for the first
Churchill J. Brazelton, New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 13th, 1979, no. 210, illus.), for the second
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 16th, 1980, no. 77, for the third
Ohio private collection (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 16th, 1980, no. 71, illus.), for the fourth
Carpenter Collection (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, January 28th, 1959, no. 18)
David Goldman Collection, New York (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 379), for the fifth
Collection of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts [G.100] (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, no. 383), for the sixth
probably Suzette and Marie Khayat (Sotheby Parke Bernet, May 13th, 1978, no. 35, illus., for the seventh)
Collection of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts [G.278] (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 16th, 1980, no. 44, part), for the eighth

First intact; second intact except for possibly recut rim and large chip on rim; third intact, areas of incrustation; fourth intact with minor chips underneath foot; fifth intact with areas of iridescence; sixth has two large pieces missing and is cracked; seventh with cracks and repairs on one side of body; eighth is chipped at one end. OR very good except for the jar on the left, which is missing two pieces and has a serious crack, and the beaker behind it, which has cracks and amateur repairs on one side. The vase on the far right has a chip on the rim, and the rim itself may have been ground down in modern times.
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