Ancient ROMAN GREEN GLASS Handsome HEAD CIRCA 2ND - 3RD A. D. Perfume Posh Bottle
Item History & Price
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A ROMAN GREEN GLASS JANIFORM HEAD FLASK
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The head of a handsome, youth, perhaps the Pharaoh / Lion ?? , forms the body of this green glass vase. Vessels in the shape of human heads had ...a long history, first in Greek and then in Roman art. When glass became a popular medium, glass head vases soon followed. Deities and mythological beings were the most popular subjects, along with grotesque faces, genre, and ethnic types.
The strongly classicizing features of the face, as well as the form of the handle, indicate that this flask was made in the 300s or 400s A.D. Both this vessel's size and its fine state of preservation are unusual. Few large, mold-blown human head vessels have survived from antiquity. The date also makes this head vase unusual; after the first century A.D., most mold-blown vessels tended to have much simpler forms.
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
The head of a handsome, youth, perhaps the Pharaoh / Lion ?? , forms the body of this green glass vase. Vessels in the shape of human heads had ...a long history, first in Greek and then in Roman art. When glass became a popular medium, glass head vases soon followed. Deities and mythological beings were the most popular subjects, along with grotesque faces, genre, and ethnic types.
The strongly classicizing features of the face, as well as the form of the handle, indicate that this flask was made in the 300s or 400s A.D. Both this vessel's size and its fine state of preservation are unusual. Few large, mold-blown human head vessels have survived from antiquity. The date also makes this head vase unusual; after the first century A.D., most mold-blown vessels tended to have much simpler forms.
