Description:

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fine set of two unguent-holding vessels known as unguentaria (singular unguentarium), each free-blown from semi-translucent glass in soft hues - one yellow-green and the other blue-green. The shorter vessel has a piriform body, a lightly-indented groove along the midsection, and a corseted neck line beneath a slender cylindrical neck. The taller vessel has a drop-form body with a slender cylindrical neck. The mouth of each unguentarium is ringed with a flared rim and an in-folded lip, and brilliant layers of rainbow-hued iridescence envelop both compositions. Size of largest (blue-green): 1.1" W x 4.4" H (2.8 cm x 11.2 cm).

Provenance: private Davis collection, Houston, Texas, USA; [shorter] ex-Bonhams, London, Knightsbridge Antiquities Auction (May 8, 2013, part of lot 186); ex-Barbara Gersch collection, California, USA, acquired in 1993

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  • Condition: Each vessel has minor abrasions to base, body, neck, and rim, with light encrustations, and micro-bubbling within glass matrix, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits as well as fine silver and rainbow iridescence throughout. Smaller vessel has old mounting putty on base.

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