ROMAN GREEN SPRINKLER

ROMAN GREEN SPRINKLER

Globular body decorated with swirling ribs, curving from lower right to upper left; long cylindrical neck with constriction and inner diaphragm, wide and flattened mouth, rim folded inward; indented base with rest of pontil.

Ex priv. coll. J.O.R., Netherlands, acq.Tefaf 2015 ; before priv. coll. H.v.R., Netherlands 2011.
H. 9,2 cm. Intact Eastern Mediterranean, Syria,

4th cent. AD

cf. J.W. Hayes, Roman and Pre-Roman Glass in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1975, no. 282, pl. 22