Roman Blue Glass Vessel with Vine Leaf Design
Early 1st century A.D. and later. A blue glass bottle of piriform shape with iridescent surfaces, decorated with later applied fruiting vines in high-relief, a stylised leaf to the vessel base; restored; rim chipped. Cf. Lightfoot, C.S., Ancient Glass in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2007, items 226, 270, for type; Whitehouse, D., Roman Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, vol.2, New York, 2001, item 649, for technique. 189 grams, 12 cm high (4 3/4 in.). Acquired in the 1970s.English private collection.