CLARK COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ART:

ANCIENT GLASS




EC.53.134

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 1st -- 2nd century CE

Description: Free blown blue-green glass vessel with small conical body, flat base, tubular neck, tapering slightly, and irregular flaring rim. For an unguentarium of similar shape and color see J. H. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1975) 152 n. 633.

Dimensions:
h: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)
d: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

EC.53.135

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass ungentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 1st century CE

Description: Free blown blue-green glass vessel with slender piriform body, cylindrical neck, and flaring rim. For an ungentarium of similar shape and color see J. H. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1975) 151 n. 625.

Dimensions:
h: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
d: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

EC.53.136

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 1st -- 2nd century CE

Description: See EC.72.134

Dimensions:
h: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
d: 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm)

EC.53.137

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 1st century CE

Description: Free blown blue-green glass vessel with drop-shaped body, round base, short neck, and irregular flaring rim. For an unguentarium of similar shape and color see J. H. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1975) 150 n. 623.

Dimensions:
h: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm)
d: 1 in. (2.5 cm)

EC.53.138

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 1st century CE

Description: Free blown blue-green glass vessel with piriform body, tubular neck, and missing rim. For an unguentarium of similar shape and color see J. H. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1975) 74 n. 252.

Dimensions:
h: 5 3/4 in. (15.6 cm)
d: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

EC.53.139

Culture: Roman

Item: Square glass jar

Date: c. 3rd century CE

Description: Free blown clear glass vessel with globular body with four shallow circular indentations on walls, broad conical mouth, and missing rim. For a jar of similar shape and color see J. H. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto 1975) 60 n. 153.

Dimensions:
h: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
d: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)

EC.53.141

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass unguentarium (perfume bottle)

Date: c. 2nd century CE

Description: Free blown yellowish glass vessel with wide body of shallow domed shape, short tubular neck, and wide flat rim ("candlestick" style).

Dimensions:
h: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm)
d: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

EC.53.177

Culture: Roman

Item: Glass flask

Date: ?

Description: Free blown rose-colored glass vessel with domed body, short flaring neck, and irregular flaring rim.

Dimensions:
h: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)
d: 1 in. (2.5 cm)

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