A CORE-FORMED GLASS UNGUENTARIUM
A CORE-FORMED GLASS UNGUENTARIUM

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN OR ITALY CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

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A CORE-FORMED GLASS UNGUENTARIUM
eastern mediterranean or italy
circa 3rd century b.c.
Cobalt blue in color, with an ovoid body on a tall stem with outsplayed foot, and a tall cylindrical neck with horizontal rim-disk, with an opaque yellow thread wound spirally from the rim to the lower body, and an opaque white thread wound spirally beginning at the neck, both tooled into a zig-zag pattern on the body with pronounced vertical indentations, with twin cobalt blue disk handles folded up
4 in. (9.5 cm) high

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