Lot 59
ROMAN UNGUENTARIUM
ROMAN EMPIRE, 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Auction: 26 November 2026 from 14:00 GMT
Description
brown glass, in teardrop form ending in a point, with a disk lip, raised on a bespoke mount
Dimensions
15.3cm long
Provenance
Hekmat and Madeleine Nassif; exported under licence from Beirut, Lebanon, to Monaco in 1987
Footnote
Compare a somewhat more slender example in Newby and Schut The Fascination with Ancient Glass (Netherlands, 1999) pp. 64-65, no. 54.Compare a somewhat more slender example in Newby and Schut The Fascination with Ancient Glass (Netherlands, 1999) pp. 64-65, no. 54.