A Late Roman Flask

Roman

National Museum of Scotland

300 - 400

Pale green glass with a thick handle and thumb-rest, the neck and base decorated with a trail of crimped glass; a miniature flask, also of pale green glass but with handles and decoration of blue trailed glass, is attached to the base of the interior.

• Medium: glass
• Dimensions: 34 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2000 ( Total: £7,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1983
• Vendor: Charles Ede

Provenance

Andrew Constable-Maxwell sale, Sotheby's 1979.

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