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ginnyrose_carol posted an update Monday, Sep 19, 2011, 7:59pm EDT, 14 years ago
evening, y'all. oh, how my heart sings looking at all this glass.
congratulations to y'all with the great sales. i read your copy and luck had very little to do with it.
my show and tell for tonight, where i show and y'all tell me amazing things and i am forever grateful, deals with really old glass. i bought these pieces for first century roman, as a tear vial and a rose bowl from a dealer i would have trusted with my life in 1980. my own research has led me to believe that each is properly called an unguentarium (yuck). the 'rose bowl' has a smooth neck and beads at the shoulder and impressed squares on the body for about two thirds down. i have also read that unguentaria used to hold poisonous or caustic things were not smooth sided, so the roman wouldn't grab the bad stuff by mistake, sort of an early take on a poison bottle. as always, i so appreciate your knowledge and help.
tear vial 1
tear vial 2
tear vial 3
rose bowl 1/
rose bowl 2
rose bowl 3
