Description:

Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. This piece takes my breath away! A gorgeous green glass vessel that glows with fiery rainbow and silver iridescence. Presenting a sizeable scale, its form is comprised of a piriform body leading to a tall, tubular neck with an outfolded, flat rim - all upon a flat bottom. Size: 3.75" in diameter x 7.75" H (9.5 cm x 19.7 cm)

The following is a wonderful quote speaking of the mesmerizing process of creating hand blown glass during ancient times, "The workman having quarried it, brought the glass and put in the fire the mass hard as iron, and the glass, set afire by the all-devouring flames, ran out melted like wax. And to men it was a marvel to see a trail flowing from the fire, and the workman trembling lest it should fall and break; and on the points of the double forceps he put the lump." (Anth. Pal. XVI.323 - Loeb translation by W.R. Paton (1979), vol. 5, p. 353 from "Solid Liquid" catalogue, Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1999, p. 19.)

Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection

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  • Condition: Covered with a beautiful film of fiery rainbow and silvery iridescence. Areas of earthen deposits.

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