Glass snake-thread dropper flask 3rd century Roman Greenish colorless; colorless, opaque yellow, and translucent turquoise green rim, folded over and in; neck funnel-shaped at top, then cylindrical with constriction on inside at base; squat piriform body; integral base ring; kick in bottom with traces of pontil separate trails pressed on to body with notched upper surfaces; one colorless shaped like a serpent with a horned head and long spiral tail, similar trail in opaque yellow, and between these two a longer turquoise trail with similar head, humped body, and
Glass snake-thread dropper flask 3rd century Roman Greenish colorless; colorless, opaque yellow, and translucent turquoise green rim, folded over and in; neck funnel-shaped at top, then cylindrical with constriction on inside at base; squat piriform body; integral base ring; kick in bottom with traces of pontil separate trails pressed on to body with notched upper surfaces; one colorless shaped like a serpent with a horned head and long spiral tail, similar trail in opaque yellow, and between these two a longer turquoise trail with similar head, humped body, and spiral tail passing below the yellow trail to form another panel on the other side of the colorless , except for internal cracks and one minor loss on yellow trail; pitting and iridescent weathering; black streaky inclusion in head of turquoise distinctive blue and yellow colors of the snake-thread trails mark this small flask out as a product of the late Roman glass factories at Cologne on the Rhine in Germany. The dropper-flask shape, however, is paralleled by numerous examples decorated with colorless trails, found principally in the Roman Glass snake-thread dropper flask 257881
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