ROMAN GLASS APPLE-SHAPED UNGUENTARIUM

Ca. AD 1 - 300. A free-blown pale green glass unguentarium with an apple-shaped body and a cylindrical neck expanding into a wide, funnel-shaped mouth. The vessel stands on a slightly concave base. For similar see: C. S. Lightfoot, The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art, The Glass, Cat. 169, 202. Size: 110mm x 90mm; Weight: 65g Provenance: Ex. Russkin collection, formed in the 1980s.