ROMAN GLASS UNGUENTARIUM WITH RIBBED MOTIF

Ca. AD 300 - 400. An apple-shaped globular glass bottle decorated with mould-blown vertical ribs. The shoulder rises to a neck constricted at its base and opening into a deep funnel-shaped mouth with a thickened, rounded rim. The body was probably inflated in a ribbed-pattern mould, while the neck and mouth were finished by free tooling. For similar see: C. S. Lightfoot, The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Ancient Glass, p. 173, cat. no. 204; p. 174, cat. no. 205. Size: 130mm x 60mm; Weight: 45g Provenance: Private UK collection; acquired on the London art market; formerly in the private collection of D. Ruskin, Oxford, 1990s.