Roman glass snake-thread dropper flask
The distinctive blue and yellow colors of the snake-thread trails mark this small flask 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 east.
Roman, blown and trailed, late Imperial, 3rd century CE.
Met Museum, New York (2012.479.8)
Roman glass snake-thread dropper flask
The distinctive blue and yellow colors of the snake-thread trails mark this small flask 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 east.
Roman, blown and trailed, late Imperial, 3rd century CE.
Met Museum, New York (2012.479.8)