Inv. n°: MMoCA252

Roman Green Blown-Glass Flask

The large globular body with shallow vertical tooled ribs, the straight-sided cyclindrical neck flaring outwards to form a wide mouth, with slightly kicked-in base.

h. 19 cm

c. 3 century AD

Glass

Provenance

  • Found in Bath, Somerset, UK
  • Collection of Traudi Plesch O.B.E and Prof. Peter H. Plesch, Staffordshire, (Agv 19), acquired from M. Gillingham, 1986
  • Acquired at Christie's London, Sale 5951, Antiquities including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, 28th April 2009, lot 36

Publications

  • Christie's London, Antiquities Including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, 28th April 2009, pp. 14-15, lot 36
  • M. Eiland, "Materials and Manufacture" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 171, fig. 28

Exhibitions

  • Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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