Bidspirit auction | COLLECTION OF ROMAN GLASS VESSELS

COLLECTION OF ROMAN GLASS VESSELS - Ca. AD 1 - 300. A collection of five glass vessels. The one on the left is a flask with a pear-shaped body and an elongated cylindrical neck terminating in a rounded rim. Next is a tall bottle with a slender tubular body and a pronounced horizontal rim. At the centre is a flask with an onion-shaped body and a wide, funnel-shaped flaring mouth. To its right is a piriform unguentarium with an elongated cylindrical neck and a rounded rim. The one on the far right is another piriform unguentarium, more compact in form, with a cylindrical neck and an everted rim. For similar see: Anastassios Antonaras, Ancient Glasses in the Paul Getty Museum, 2025, Inv. 179, 341. Size: 80-145mm x 45-60mm; Weight: 150g Provenance: Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s. This item has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database and comes with a confirmation letter.