COLLECTION OF NINE ROMAN AND LATE ROMAN GLASS UNGUENTARIA

Ca. AD 1 - 400. A collection of nine free-blown glass unguentaria, principally in pale blue, blue-green, and violet glass. Four tall examples occupy the upper register, each with an elongated drop-shaped body, cylindrical neck, and everted or folded rim. Below are a further tubular unguentarium, a small green flask with a globular body and three applied feet, and three piriform or fusiform vessels with necks of differing length. Their surfaces exhibit varying degrees of mineral encrustation, opaque weathering, and silver or multicoloured iridescence. Size: 70-115mm x 18-25mm; Weight: 190g Provenance: From a private London collection; earlier held in an old family collection formed over the period 1960s?2000.