Three late Roman - early Byzantine glass vessels
circa 5th-6th Century A.D.
A lamp in the form of a deep bowl, with a thick tubular rim and three applied handles, the cylindrical wick emerging upright from the base interior, 9cm high; a bulb-shaped lamp with striated decoration, 9.6cm high, and a pale yellow-green glass pear-shaped flask with tall funnel neck, 12.6cm high (3)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Three-handled oil lamp: Archaeological Center Ltd, Jaffa, Auction 30, 15 October 2003, lot 209.
Bulb-shaped oil lamp: with Christopher Sheppard, London, 1989.
With Artemission, London.
Anonymous sale; Artemission, London, 11 October 2017, lot 71.
Pear-shaped flask: private collection, New Jersey, USA, 1990s.
Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, Clearance Sale-Ancient/Ethnographic Art, 1 February 2018, lot 22B.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 158, NFB 363 & NFB 365). All acquired from the above.
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