3-037-464 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Flask, 1st century A.D. Additional Info: Free blown ribbon flask of alternating vertical lengths of three canes: two are dark blue encased in colorless glass flanked by translucent white. The third is dark blue encased in colorless glass flanked by strips of alternating blue and yellow (to form green). All three canes begin on opposite sides of the rim and continue down and around to terminate at the same point on the other side of the rim. The canes were assembled and thereafter free blown to achieve the shape.