COLLECTION OF FIVE ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN GLASS VESSELS

Ca. AD 100 - 400. A collection of five free-blown glass vessels of varied form and colour. The upper register comprises a cylindrical bottle with rounded shoulders, a short neck, and an everted rim, together with a larger rectangular bottle with rounded corners and a tall cylindrical neck. Below are a slender fusiform unguentarium in green glass, a compact square-bodied bottle with a broad folded rim, and a flattened globular flask with a narrow neck and widely outsplayed mouth. The vessels display extensive mineral accretions, weathering, and areas of blue, green, and violet iridescence. Size: 40-80mm x 25-50mm; Weight: 235g Provenance: From a private London collection; earlier held in an old family collection formed over the period 1960s?2000.