A MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS HYDRISKE

CIRCA LAST QUARTER OF THE 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A MEDITERRANEAN CORE-FORMED GLASS HYDRISKE
CIRCA LAST QUARTER OF THE 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Cobalt blue in color, the ovoid vessel with flat shoulders, cylindrical neck, horizontal rim-disk and disk base, with opaque yellow and white marvered threads wound spirally on the body and tooled into a zigzag pattern in the middle of the body, the furrows created during tooling not smoothed, the two horizontal and single vertical handle in the same fabric as the body
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

Provenance

Geneva Private Collection, 1970s.

Lot Essay

According to Stern and Schlick-Nolte (p. 226, Early Glass of the Ancient World, 1600 B.C. - A.D. 50, The Ernesto Wolf Collection), "A small luxury container, the hydriske held such precious toiletries as unguents, scented oils, and cosmetics." For a similar example see no. 54 in Stern and Schlick-Nolte, op. cit.

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