Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 79 in D.F. Grose, Early Ancient Glass, The Toledo Museum of Art.
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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS ALABASTRON
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the cylindrical body with a rounded base, the short neck flaring to the disk rim, with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally along the body, tooled into a zigzag pattern in the center of the body, with vertical grooves from the tooling, a yellow thread along the rim, the applied twin cobalt blue handles with tails
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
CIRCA LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the cylindrical body with a rounded base, the short neck flaring to the disk rim, with opaque yellow and turquoise marvered threads wound spirally along the body, tooled into a zigzag pattern in the center of the body, with vertical grooves from the tooling, a yellow thread along the rim, the applied twin cobalt blue handles with tails
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with Wilhelm Henrich, Frankurt, 1960.
Margret Köser, Hamburg; thence by descent.
Margret Köser, Hamburg; thence by descent.
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