108 ROMAN FREE BLOWN BLUISH GLASS PEAR-SHAPED BOTTLE WITH BLUE TRAILINGS, below lip and above shoulder of the cylindrical neck; two blue applied handles terminating in blue trailing curls to the base. Iridescent. Syro-Palestinian, 5th Century AD. H. 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) Ex German private collection, acquired in the 1970s. 109 ROMAN SIDONIAN MOLD-BLOWN PURPLE GLASS BARREL VASE with globular body blown into a two-part mold, decorated with a central band of tendrils between gadrooning, with two small applied glass handles. Ca. 1st Century AD. H. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) Ex German private collection. Cf. D.Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass II, 2001, 42, no. 512. 110 ROMAN MOLDED HONEY-YELLOW GLASS LENTOID FLASK with ten-petalled rosette molded on either side. 4th – 5th Century AD. H. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) Ex private collection, London, acquired in 1983/84. Cf. D.Whitehouse, Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass II, 2001, 132, no. 639; Y. Israeli, Ancient Glass in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2003, p. 269, no. 359 (with different handles).
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