Small Roman Bottle

Small Dark Green Bottle

 This precisely shaped globular bottle was probably used for perfume or bath oil. Its delicate proportion and intense dark green color make it a fine example.

H: 5.5cm

1^st Century

Small Dark Green Roman Glass Bottle 41R

Roman Glass Pilgrim or Lentoid Flask

Pilgrim Flask

 This late Roman glass is a colorless pilgrim flask with blue handles.  It is called this because of its flattened shape making it easy to slip into a bag carried by a traveler.

H: 13.8 cm

3^rd to 4^th Century

Published: Solid Liquid Catalogue (#188 p. 103) ex. Shalom Collection

Ref: Kofler Truniger #44, EDE #7-49, Benzian Collection #101, Newark # 171, #459, Mersey Side #A20, Royal Ontario #389, Barakat p. 97

50R Pilgrim flask 3-4th century

Fry Tea Pot with Jade Trim

This heat resistant glass tea pot was made by H. C. Fry Glass Company in Rochester, PA. This company made complete dinner sets, tea sets and a large variety of heat-resistant oven glassware from 1916 to 1930 under a license from the Corning Glass Works.

 

H: 7 inches

1916-1930

66A Fry Tea Pot with Jade Trim

VENETIAN WINE GOBLET

32E Allaire Collection

 

Cristallo wine glass has a bell-shaped bowl decorated with gadrooning and a thin clear glass thread circling the center.  The tall narrow stem rests on a wide circular foot.

H: 15.3 cm

First half of 17th Century

Ref: Lameris, 1991 #82

Facon de Venise Bowl with White Ribbing

Facon de Venise Bowl with White Ribbing

This is a very unusual large facon de Venise bowl in the style of the 17^th Century.  It was probably made in the 19^th or 20^th Century.  It is made of clear glass with white ribbing sandwiched between two layers “a mezza stampaura”.

H. 10 cm, D. 26 cm

19-20^th Century or earlier

Theuerkauff P. 145 #110, Christie’s March28, 2000 Lot 178

 

Facon de Venise bowl 92E

Facon de Venise bowl 92E

Gallo-Roman Glass Hofheim Cup

This is a blown convex Roman cup with wheel-cut lines and fine horizontal scratches. The scratches may indicate that the exterior may have been lathe-polished.   Cups like this are called Hofheim cups after a Rhineland military site where over thirty examples were found.  They have also been found in Britain.

H: 5 cm

Mid First Century

29R Hofheim cup with wheel-cut lines

English Green Opaque Twist Wine

English Green Opaque Twist Wine

This green wine has a cup-shaped bowl, set on a knop with three raspberry prunts, above a clear glass stem enclosing a double-series opaque-twist and domed foot.
H: 15cm
D: 1765
Ref: Bonhams Nov. 30, 2011 #120, Bonhams Dec. 17, 2008 # 286,
Bickerton # 1155

97E-B English Green White Twist Wine

SIDONIAN BOTTLE WITH SCROLL DESIGN

Sidonian Bottle with Scroll Design

This is a light violet mold-blown bottle with a single light green handle which was probably made in Sidon.  Sidon is located in the modern country of Lebanon and has been a glass manufacturing center from the time it was a Phoenician city about 4000 BC.  It may be the city where glass was first made.  During the Roman period Sidon also continued to be a glass manufacturing center.  A large group of these small mold-blown bottles of this type are thought to come from this area and were made in the first Century.  Sidonian bottles were made in many different motifs and colors but are all in the general size and shape of this example.

H: 8 cm

First Century A.D.

Ref: Constable Maxwell #105 (light brown), Stern 1995, Toledo Museum # 55, Nico F. Bijnsdorp book FASCINATING FRAGILITY # 230 (manganese), The Windmill Collection of Roman Glass (manganese with cobalt blue handle)

43R Sidonian Bottle with Scoll Design 1st century

Poison Bottle with Hobnail Pattern

Poison Bottle with Hobnail Pattern

This poison bottle is in the shape of a half pint Pitkin made using the half post method.  Unlike some poison bottles it is made of colorless glass and has no embossed words on it.  The only distinguish characteristic that makes it a poison bottle is the hobnail pattern.

H: 4 ¾ inches

1810-1870

47A Poison Bottle

BOHEMIAN ENGRAVED WINE GLASS WITH UNICORN

This engraved wine glass from now the Czech Republic shows a hound hunting a unicorn. The glass has a conical bowl on a stem made with a merese and knop on a folded foot.

H: 15.5 cm

1690

Engraved Glass: Masterpieces from Holland # 8, Hans Cohn Collection # 239, Bickerton # 13

43E Bohemian Wine Glass other side