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Property from a Private Collection

A Roman Opaque White Mould-Blown Janiform Glass Flask, circa 1st/2nd century AD

Lot Closed

December 17, 01:02 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

A Roman Opaque White Mould-Blown Janiform Glass Flask

circa 1st/2nd century AD


the cylindrical neck with everted rim and inward-folded lip with a plump-faced youth and a thin-faced man wearing a fillet on either side.

Height 7.4 cm.

Ernst and Marthe Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne
Christie's, London, Ancient Glass, Formerly the Kofler-Truniger Collection, March 5th and 6th, 1985, no. 113, illus.
acquired by the current owner at the above sale
Kunstmuseum Luzern, "3000 Jahre Glaskunst, von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil"July 19th-September 13th, 1981

PUBLISHED 

Beat Rütti, 

3000 Jahre Glaskunst von der Antike bis zum Jugendstil, Lucerne, 1981, p. 82, no. 278