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A Late Roman green glass quadruple balsamarium

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A Late Roman green glass quadruple balsamarium

Item Details

Description

A Late Roman green glass quadruple balsamarium
Circa 5th-7th Century A.D.
25.3cm high
Footnotes:
Provenance:
The Nimbus Collection of Ancient Glass The Property of a Private Collector; Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1997, lot 221.
The Nico F. Bijnsdorp Collection (NFB 056), acquired from the above sale.

Published:
J. v.d. Groen & H. van Rossum, Romeins Glas uit Particulier Bezit, Utrecht, 2011, p. 74.
R. van Beek, Antiek Glas: De Kunst van Het Vuur, Amsterdam, 2001, p. 4, pl. 6.

Exhibited:
Allard Pierson Museum of Antiquities, Amsterdam, 'Antiek Glas, de Kunst van Het Vuur', 17 May - 16 September 2001, exhibition no. 73.
Museum Dordts Patriciërshuis, Dordrecht, NL, 'Glas Door deEeeuwen Heen', 11 April – 11 November 2018.

Kohl-tubes are more typically found with single or double compartments. This example with four tubes and an extravagant handle built up from a series of loops, which would have made the extraction of its contents a delicate operation, are unusual, with the most elaborate example to have survived being that in The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, (D. B. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, vol. two, Corning, 2001, pp. 198-9, no. 752).
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Condition

The multiple handle has been re-attached to the rim and tops of the side loops. The top loop has been broken and re-attached. It appears that there is a further break at the base of the second tier of loops.
There is some trail missing on the body. There is a crack and repair to one of the side loops. There is some overall surface wear including pitting, scratching and chipping with some encrustation and iridescence.