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Candlestick Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
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Candlestick unguentarium; slightly indented base, conical body, long straight neck, flat ring mouth. Intact; extensive pale opalescence and iridescence, light brown and white accretions on lower part of base and bottom exterior.
Classification: Isings form 82A(1)
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Luigi Palma di Cesnola Cyprus Greece (c. 1865-1872) sold; to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1872-by 1977) sold; to the Department of the Classics Harvard University Cambridge MA (by 1977) transfer; to the Fogg Art Museum 1977.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Department of the Classics Harvard University G. G. Van Rensselaer Fund
Title: Candlestick Unguentarium (cosmetic bottle)
Description:
Candlestick unguentarium; slightly indented base, conical body, long straight neck, flat ring mouth.
Intact; extensive pale opalescence and iridescence, light brown and white accretions on lower part of base and bottom exterior.
Classification: Isings form 82A(1).
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