Roman Glass Flask with Elongated Neck

£ 250.00

An elegant Ancient Roman glass flask blown in pale blue colour. The vessel features a globular body, an elongated, cylindrical neck, leading to a wide, flaring rim. The glass is sitting on a concave base and displays much of the original translucency, with some mother of pearl like iridescence.

Date: Circa 1st - 3rd Century AD
Condition: Fine, complete and intact with encrustations and patination to the surface.

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Product Code: RGS-34
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Glass was often the preferred material for storing expensive oils, perfumes, and medicines in antiquity because it was not porous. The small body and mouth allowed the user to carefully pour and control the amount of liquid dispensed. By the 1st century AD, the technique of glass-blowing had revolutionised the art of glass-making, allowing for the production of small medicine, incense, and perfume containers in new forms. Glass vessels are found frequently at Hellenistic and Roman sites, especially in cemeteries, and the liquids, which filled them, would have been gathered from all corners of the expansive Roman Empire.

To learn more about Roman glass, visit our relevant post: How It Was Made: Roman Glass.

Dimensions H 13 cm
Glass

Blown Glass

Region

Southern Europe

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