Aubergine in color, the ovoid body of this vessel was blown in a two-part mold. Around the body is a frieze with a continuous vine scroll flanked above and below by a band of ridges and vertical flutes. The cylindrical neck extends into a slightly splayed lip, with in-folded rim and two delicately trailed handles. An extremely fine vase retaining some of its original fire-polished surface. Very rare in such a state of preservation.Cf: D. Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass II, 2001, 42, no. 512;The Toledo Museum of Art, Roman Mold-blown Glass, E.M. Stern, Toledo 1995, no. 56, p. 153; The Alfred Wolkenberg Collection of Ancient Glass, Christie’s London, July 1991, lot 90, p.35; Dusseldorf, no. 39; Glass from the Ancient World, The R.W. Smith collection, Smith 1957no. 75; Eisen pl. 58.; Ancient Glass, Frederic Neuburg, 1962, no. 38.
Circa 1st Century A.D.
Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm.)
Ex. East Coast USA private collection, 1990's

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Intact, small crack on the neck.