Showing posts with label roman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roman. Show all posts

Friday, 16 December 2016

Acorn Flask  Roman, glass,   Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Roman acorn shaped flask, glass

Container for Magical Substances (Naga Morsarang), 19th–early 20th century Toba Batak people, Sumatra, Indonesia Water buffalo horn, wood:
Naga Morsarang (container for magical objects)
Toba Batak people, 19th Century, Sumatra, India
water buffalo horn, wood

Saturday, 3 December 2016

APHRODITE- ANCIENT ROMAN BIRD SHAPED GLASS FLASK:
Roman, 1st - 2nd  century A.D.
bird shaped glass flask, core formed, translucent yellow brown, twin applied handles in honey brown and base knob in pale green, applied spiral tail wound around neck and lower body, applied white trail in feather pattern around the body

Saturday, 24 September 2016

Green mold-blown glass bottle, one side with the face of a bearded man, the other with a young boy's face, rolled rim, iridescence and encrustation. 50 - 100 AD