Two Roman glass vessels, 1st century A.D.

comprising a cobalt blue flask of spherical form with concave base, the twin handles and top of the rim in opaque white glass, and a pale green bottle with broad rounded body and everted rim folded in, an encircling groove on the shoulder.

Thomas Barlow Walker, Minneapolis, 1840-1928 (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Antiquities and Oriental Art, the Thomas Barlow Walker Collection, Sold for the Benefit of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 26th-28th, 1972, no. 37, illus.), for the first
Ray Winfield Smith Collection, inv. no. RWS 1428 (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 20th-21st, 1975, no. 463), for the second

Both intact and very good. Minor chips on the opaque white elements of the blue bottle. The surfaces of both vessels somewhat weathered and iridescent.
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