Roman glass

Two Prismatic Bottle From The Windmill Collection of Roman Glass Date: 2nd Century AD Sizes: a. H = 7.8 cm D = 3.0 – 3.2 cm b. H = 10.3 cm D = 4.9 cm Provenance: Rhineland (Germany) Desc…

5.5 inches (13.97cm) high

CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

Glass (colorless and opaque), Alexandrian, Late 2nd century C.E., Allegedly from Alexandria H. 14.56 cm. Blown colourless glass decorated with applied opaque white tooled trails referred to as snake-thread. Condition: the foot a modern repair; a crack around the lower body consolidated with transparent glue. Slight dulling to minor parts of the colourless glass owing to weathering. The trails depict waders in a poetic representation of reeds and vegetable growth (along the banks of a river…

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A ROMAN GLASS GOBLET CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D. Translucent dark blue in color, the deep ovoid beaker mold-blown and further inflated, with vertical fluting below the rim, elaborate honeycomb pattern on the body, the honeycombs distended toward the base, the rim flaring slightly and cut off, the profiled foot with a beaded stem 8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Said to be from Divodurum (modern Metz, France) Until 1881, collection of Jules Charvet, Le Pecq, Île-de-France; 1881, purchased from J. Charvet by Henry G. Marquand; acquired in 1881, gift of Henry G

Roman long-necked bottle 2-3rd century A.D. 19.7cm high.

Said to be from Amiens, France (Froehner 1879, p. 139, pl. XXI, 91.) Until 1881, collection of Jules Charvet, Le Pecq, Île-de-France; 1881, purchased from J. Charvet by Henry G. Marquand; acquired in 1881, gift of Henry G

Roman Glass Head Flask, Circa 1st-2nd Century AD

Glass rectangular bottle Period: Mid Imperial, 2nd–3rd century A.D. - Culture: Roman - Glass; mold-blown

Glassmakers during the Roman period had an impressive array of colors to use to make their glass vessels. Describing these colors can be difficult. Colors of glass can appear as different shades d…

A ROMAN GLASS UNGUENTARIUM CIRCA 4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D. Blue-green in color, free-blown, the long cylindrical body coiled with an applied thin trail, on a wide flaring foot, the thick rim rolled out, with four thick openwork trails applied along the sides of the body in loops, topped by a thick high-arching handle 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

Late Roman three-handled glass jar (4th-5th AD) free-blown, aubergine handles attached later - Christie's