Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1981, p. 49, no. 83.
3000 Jahre Glaskunst, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1981, p. 49, no. 83.
6TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A core-formed bright blue glass aryballos
6th-5th Century B.C.
With spherical body, short neck and wide tooled mouth, the body decorated with opaque turquoise and yellow marvered zigzags and spiralling yellow trail above, an encircling turquoise and yellow trail below, the rim with opaque yellow trail around its edge, twin vestigial handles applied to the upper neck and shoulder
2½in. (6.3cm.) high
6th-5th Century B.C.
With spherical body, short neck and wide tooled mouth, the body decorated with opaque turquoise and yellow marvered zigzags and spiralling yellow trail above, an encircling turquoise and yellow trail below, the rim with opaque yellow trail around its edge, twin vestigial handles applied to the upper neck and shoulder
2½in. (6.3cm.) high
Provenance
Benzian Collection: sold Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 24.
Exhibited
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 19 July - 13 September 1981.