Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XXVI - 2015

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134 ROMAN MARBLED AMBER GLASS UNGUENTARIUM The pear-shaped body and short cylindrical neck with swirling opaque 'marble' bands; waisted. 1st Century AD. H. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Munich, December 2006. Cf. Glass of Antiquity from the Oppenl채nder Collection, The Getty Museum, 1974, p. 360. 135 ROMAN MARBLED BLUE GLASS UNGUENTARIUM with pyriform body, long tubular neck, and fold-over lip with swirling opaque yellow, white, and blue 'marble' bands; waisted. 1st Century AD. H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm.) Ex French collection; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Paris in May 2011. 136 ROMAN MANGANESE PURPLE GLASS BOTTLE WITH GREEN SPIRAL, of bulbous form with a spiral of thin pale green glass wrapping around from the base to the top. It has a tall tapering cylindrical neck ending in a folded lip. 1st-3rd Century AD. H. 3 1/4 in. (8.4 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, NY, acquired in Munich in December 2009. 137 ROMAN MARBLED AMBER GLASS UNGUENTARIUM The squat body and short cylindrical neck with swirling opaque amber, white, and blue 'marble' bands. 1st Century AD. H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) Ex J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired in Munich in December 2006.

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